I like bread, I bought a book called 'How to murder your employers', haven't started it yet but I will eventually. I watch The Last of Us with my partner, they were really touched by the queer love episode, not to spoil it but that sold us on the series.
Thanks for this! I’m always interested in these forms of interspecies connection and the way non-human life travels along the circuits of global capitalism. I think it’s especially important to think about these non-charismatic forms of non-human life.
I’ve really been loving TLOU (and not just because Pedro Pascal dirties up real nice). I especially loved episode six which shows something I feel like we rarely to never see in popular culture about the post-apocalypse— the presence and workability of the communist alternative. In fact, it’s the social system that works the best out of everything we’ve seen which has mostly been biopolitical fascism and vengeful anarchism (?). It got me thinking about some stuff near the end of Rinaldo Walcott’s *On Property* and the possibility of and necessity of embracing communal forms of life as per Indigenous life ways/knowledges provide modes of life beyond the property-form and its tyrannies. Maybe we can all be free, even after the end of the world— if only in one city.
Ohhh thanks for these reflections! The sentiment "maybe we can all be free, even after the end of the world" also takes me back to the beautiful devastation that was episode 3!!
Melissa, what exciting thinking here. Your description of the larvae’s “edible home” made me think of “home” as a concept more generally. Yes, there’s the question of if it travelled and from where and to where. But also, as I think you signal, migrancy - and in the case of the larave, I assume, forced migrancy. I then think of the care workers too whose role in transnational capitalism has long been linked to forced migrancy. And as you also dive into, there is, of course, the forced movement of many Indigenous nations in what we currently call Canada and the US; to reservations or other institutions. What is “home” then when migrant lifeways reshape typical imaginings of it? Thank you for bringing me to these thoughts and questions with your own writing in foodstuff!
Loving these reflections on "home" and migrancy, Theresa! Your question-- "What is home then when migrant life ways reshape typical imaginations of it?-- is making me think of "home" as inseparable from systems, bodies, and lands, and therefore, less of a place, more of a *process* of attending to a slew of embodied relations, a process that eating is very much a part of! Thanks so much for sharing these thoughts!
Melissa, I love reading your writing. And in approx 500 years, I'll be reading that chapter on Burning Vision (it's up next on the comps list)!
Ohhh I want to hear your thoughts once you've read it!
I like bread, I bought a book called 'How to murder your employers', haven't started it yet but I will eventually. I watch The Last of Us with my partner, they were really touched by the queer love episode, not to spoil it but that sold us on the series.
Thanks for this! I’m always interested in these forms of interspecies connection and the way non-human life travels along the circuits of global capitalism. I think it’s especially important to think about these non-charismatic forms of non-human life.
I’ve really been loving TLOU (and not just because Pedro Pascal dirties up real nice). I especially loved episode six which shows something I feel like we rarely to never see in popular culture about the post-apocalypse— the presence and workability of the communist alternative. In fact, it’s the social system that works the best out of everything we’ve seen which has mostly been biopolitical fascism and vengeful anarchism (?). It got me thinking about some stuff near the end of Rinaldo Walcott’s *On Property* and the possibility of and necessity of embracing communal forms of life as per Indigenous life ways/knowledges provide modes of life beyond the property-form and its tyrannies. Maybe we can all be free, even after the end of the world— if only in one city.
Ohhh thanks for these reflections! The sentiment "maybe we can all be free, even after the end of the world" also takes me back to the beautiful devastation that was episode 3!!
Melissa, what exciting thinking here. Your description of the larvae’s “edible home” made me think of “home” as a concept more generally. Yes, there’s the question of if it travelled and from where and to where. But also, as I think you signal, migrancy - and in the case of the larave, I assume, forced migrancy. I then think of the care workers too whose role in transnational capitalism has long been linked to forced migrancy. And as you also dive into, there is, of course, the forced movement of many Indigenous nations in what we currently call Canada and the US; to reservations or other institutions. What is “home” then when migrant lifeways reshape typical imaginings of it? Thank you for bringing me to these thoughts and questions with your own writing in foodstuff!
Loving these reflections on "home" and migrancy, Theresa! Your question-- "What is home then when migrant life ways reshape typical imaginations of it?-- is making me think of "home" as inseparable from systems, bodies, and lands, and therefore, less of a place, more of a *process* of attending to a slew of embodied relations, a process that eating is very much a part of! Thanks so much for sharing these thoughts!