From 963648557752bf906f3abb95e76223bd8ebe2c87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Valeria Graziano Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 04:45:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] !publish! --- content/research/maddeningrhythms.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/research/maddeningrhythms.md b/content/research/maddeningrhythms.md index 3f6fd9d..ad6c59c 100644 --- a/content/research/maddeningrhythms.md +++ b/content/research/maddeningrhythms.md @@ -38,14 +38,14 @@ We encountered this story as "told" by Luigi Firrao, who followed it meticulousl Maddening Rhythms is the name we gave to the experimental publication you are holding between your hands or reading on your screen. It is a growing, mutating zine that accompanies our research exploring the links between healthcare, environmental and work-related struggles from an Italian standpoint. 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. The story of Lebole workers' and their resistance to the MTM method became for us a red thread to be able to navigate the intricacies of these epochal changes in governance, technologies and methods of exploitation, as well as changes in the subjects, places, and modes of doing politics. -The zine comes complete with its own library of resources, some of which are documents taken from the Luigi Firrao archive at Fondazione ISEC, which we are making available here for the first time in digital form. In its digital version, Maddening Rhythms runs on Sandpoints, a still-in-development digital platform for collective writing, learning, and experimental publishing. This free software tool allows readers to easily copy onto a USB drive a single folder that contains the whole website, alongside a PDF library of all included references, and to read it offline in a browser or move it to another server. Furthermore, in situations that call for paper, it is possible to automatically export the publication into a well-paginated PDF that is ready for on-demand print. +The zine comes complete with its own library of resources, some of which are documents taken from the Luigi Firrao archive at Fondazione ISEC, which we are making available here for the first time in digital form. In its digital version, Maddening Rhythms runs on Sandpoints, a still-in-development digital platform for collective writing, learning, and experimental publishing. This free software tool allows readers to easily copy onto a USB drive a single folder that contains the whole website, alongside a PDF library of all included references, and to read it offline in a browser or move it to another server. Furthermore, in situations that call for paper, it is possible to automatically export the publication into a PDF that is ready for on-demand print. The use of Sandpoints is a small step in embedding our work in a more susteinable technopolitical infrastructure, specifically relevant here perhaps, as we are critically discussing the evolution of exploitation via technologically-driven processes. Maddening Rhythms is organized around 5 'factors', each centering one aspect of the Leboline's experiences and struggles and using it to introduce a broader reflection. We believe that reactivating some of the stories, techniques and imaginaries that came out of the struggles for health that took place in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s can be a useful exercise in our present days, in the aftermath of the Covid-19 syndemic, an event with a death poll that could have been, in large part, preventable. Connecting with the struggles that first obtained a public healthcare system might help us sharpen our demands for the future. ## Italian Healthcare struggles -The aftermath of WWII saw a number of struggles for health to become recognised as a common good. Many people fought for health practices to be supported via the public sector, and for care to be made available universally and for free at the point of use (that is, paid for through general taxation, rather than via a single payer model). +The aftermath of WWII saw a number of struggles for health to become recognised as a common good. Many people fought for health practices to be supported via the public sector, and for care to be made available universally and for free at the point of use (that is, paid for through general taxation). Some of these struggles were more successful, other were less so, but whenever change came about it was not a top-down decision, but a result of complex mobilizations that often created transversal connections between those affected, organizers and professionals.