From 0887a97b89104931b1e80c20ff2934a871523ebb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Valeria Graziano Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 01:21:03 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] !publish! --- content/research/crazyrhythms.md | 12 ------------ 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/research/crazyrhythms.md b/content/research/crazyrhythms.md index 3f96318..b4c1d93 100644 --- a/content/research/crazyrhythms.md +++ b/content/research/crazyrhythms.md @@ -19,18 +19,6 @@ Italy in these decades was subjected to a fast industrialization that deeply alt The title we chose for this zine is our English translation of the one of a newspaper article - RITMI DA PAZZIA - which denounced how in the factory workers are subjected to a constant accelleration in the name of profit. These rhythms are maddening in the sense that were making people furious and push them to organize for change, while at the same time they also provoked many to experience negative mental health conditions. As we shall see, burnouts, depression and psychosis were widespread experiences linked with chain work. - -# What is the opposite of health? - -David Harvey remarked that under capitalism, to be healthy is defined simply by the ability to perform labour (DavidHarvey,“The Body as Accumulation Strategy,” *Spaces of Hope*, Berkeley:2000, -pp. 97–116) - this is why people need a doctor’s note to certify that they are sick so they can skip work. However, many do not agree with this narrow definition. - -The struggles for health in Italy begun as the political questioning of its opposite – which these movements identified not as sickness nor as fitness, or the capacity to optimally perform work. Rather, political movements begun to focus on the key term nocività – translatable as noxiousness in English. - -Noxiousness instead is the property of damaging a living process and to provoke pathologies, both to a singular organism and to an entire ecosystem. A noxious process or substance can have temporary or permanent damaging effects on health; it can move fast or become chronic; it can cause death or “merely” negatively impact the capacity of living beings to reproduce and thrive. - -So by focusing on noxiousness - which is produced and not a condition of the individual body, as sickness is - these movements open up the problem of health in a strategic way. They linked the wellbeing of workers, who were exposed to toxicity at work, with that of their living conditions in their neighbourhoods which were destitute and polluted, and with the conditions of domestic labour, and with the impact of capitalist production over the broader environment. - # Politicizing Expertise, Over and Over Again The Covid-19 pandemic brought back at the centre of attention the relationship between medical-scientific knowledge and political strategies in the field of healthcare, the very same relationship that has been the core issue in the historical struggles around healthcare that we have been encountering in the archives centred on 1960s and 1970s' experiences in Italy.