We depart from the boudoir as a space to allow oneself “to feel", to find inner peace, away from the emotional, social and sexual labour required from the 17th century aristocratic woman. Through explorations of ejaculatory prayers, hedonistic luxury, lesbianism and prostitution as refusal to work and Marx’s economic vampires, we will dive into the domestic, the familial, the conjugal as well as the labour to remain desirable while emotionally and sexually available.
3. Looks like harmonizing growth and desire is gonna be a tricky business
16.12.2020
References:
00’00” Beyoncé ft The Weeknd “6 Inch”
01’50” Quoted from Silvia Federici, Wages Against Housework, p.11
02’00” Clip from The Jetsons – Episode 1 Season 1 “Rosey the Robot“
03’44” Clip from 1957 Monsanto House of the Future
05’12” Clip from 1999 House of Tomorrow
06’26” Clip from 1999 House of Tomorrow
07’23” Norma Rae, 1979
09’02” Vanessa Williams “Work To Do”
09’10” Mierle Laderman Ukeles, “Manifesto for Maintenance Art”, 1969 read by Jo Willoughby
10’55” Quoted from Silvia Federici, Wages Against Housework, p.9
11’30” Prince “Let’s Work”
11’45” Quoted from Walter Benjamin, Reflections, p. 54
13’15” Ne-Yo “Put In Work”
15’43” Quoted from Paul Preciado, Gender, Sexuality, and the Biopolitics of Architecture, p.123
16’27” Justin Bieber “U smile”
16’36” Saint François de Sales, “Chapitre XII, Des Aspirations, oraisons jaculatoires et bonnes pensées”, Introduction á la vie dévote read by Manon Bachelier
19’24” Donna Summer “She Works Hard For The Money”
19’26” Voltaire, “Gertrude oú L’Éducation d’une fille”, Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, tome 10, p. 26-29
21’16” Cardi B “Money”
21’26” Silvia Federici, Wages Against Housework read by Carmen José
24’50” J. Sheridan LeFanu, Carmilla read by Allison Henriquez
29’28” Karl Marx, “Chapter Ten: The Working-Day”, Capital, Volume One
29’30” Britney Spears “Work B**ch”
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Lila Athanasiadou
Lila is awriter, programmer and researcher with a background in architecture.
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