So I was in the library the other day, looking for a book,
and I came across Maria Meis’s Patriarchy and Accumulation
She got me open like a Black Moon tape.
I have been looking for ways to talk about the city + Black women + capitalism. But I didn’t have a framework. Still don’t. But I do I have
better idea of what I don’t want to talk about so that helps.
I use this title for this post because I don’t have time to be reading no unassigned work, so #myAdviserISgoingtokickmyass.
But this book does have me thinking about my dissertation, which is a ways off, however I have been a little troubled about my original idea (Women, Food, The City), which I will talk about in another post.
I have also decided on the topic for my interdiscp paper, on Black Womens Sexuality, more about that later too. So in some ways I feel like I got one duck lined up, gotta line one more up.
So here are some Maria Mies quotes that I found interesting:
On Technology + Job’s
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Not only were millions of jobs destroyed by the introduction of these labour saving technologies, it also became clear that there would no longer be any substitute for these jobs in the future, and the full employment, hitherto the central demand of trade unions in the North, was becoming obsolete, and, even more disquieting, these new technologies began to undermine the very definition of ‘work’ in industrialized countries. Machines were now actually making human labour more redundant, not just for a while but for good, it seemed.
Machines were now actually making human labour more redundant, not just for a while but for good!!?!?!?!? Word.
Before you say to me well Renina, machines create more jobs.
Do machines create as many jobs as they destroy?
What happens when a society that defines people by their work, massively unemploys a huge portion of its people?
Surplus Human Capital?
Industrial Societies #dontnoNaan’
On Food + Class
People in industrialized societies have a particular difficulty in accepting the fact that food still comes out of the earth, that land therefor is the foundation of food production and security. [I hate the term food security by the way. RJ].? They are usually ready to accept that land is necessary? for ‘underdeveloped’ countries, but they do not see the need to be concerned about land in ‘developed’ societies. They are also reluctant to step out of their given mindset and dream of another economy. They fear to join a process, which is already underway, and contribute their own creativity and energy. They want security before they step out of their own house…
She had me rolling when I read this. Shit is true tho, “People in industrialized societies have a particular difficulty in accepting the fact that food still comes out of the earth” unless is synthetic.
So my adviser may not #kickmyass after all. She may in fact appreciate the fact that I am thinking about the Big D.
Thoughts?