Reclaiming the Body of the Witch: a review of Beyond the Periphery of the Skin from Silvia Federici
While Caliban and the Witch told us the story of how bodies were subjugated and how we became separated from our bodies, her latest book, Beyond the Periphery of the Skin—Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism, addresses how our relations to the body play out now, especially in the digital age where the cyborg (half human, half machine) has replaced the earlier mechanistic model of the body-as-machine.
What does calling Brazilian women “sexy” actually mean?
An article on the impact colonialism has in the lives of Brazilian women today.
In Praise of the Dancing Body
Capitalism alienates us from our body, so our liberation must begin with the body. An essay from Silvia Federici