THIS SATURDAY: "Doing Politics in/with Collective Bodies" Panel Discussion

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Radiograph of a foot, from from Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy 7th ed. (1920)

Dear Hypocrites,

What's at stake when we talk about the "collective body" of a community, a state, or a movement? If disability, fatigue, and chronic illness interrupt the dominance of capitalist production, can they also lead us to new modes of political resistance? And how do we care for the collective within a society that prizes the "productive" individual?

In celebration of the release of Issue 95: SYMPTOMS, Hypocrite Reader will host an author discussion and Q&A on Doing Politics in/with Collective Bodies, featuring  Marybeth Ruether-Wu, Alexander Wells, Sandow Sinai, and Zoe Belinsky and moderated by editor Erica Eisen. The event will take place on Saturday at 4PM EDT; you can access the live stream of the event on our Facebook page.

About the panelists

Sandow Sinai is a composer, writer, performer, teacher, and communist living in Brooklyn, New York. She loves the bass guitar, her cat Wendy Carlos, and unitary theory.

Marybeth Ruether-Wu earned her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Cornell University in 2017, where she defended her dissertation, Revel, Reiving, and Outlawry: Regulating the Body Politic In Late Medieval Popular Literature. Recently, she contributed an article on blood feud and ballads to the forthcoming book Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales: “‘So shall we take our dinner sweet’: When the Greenwood Consumes the Outlaw.”

Alexander Wells is an Australian writer and history researcher based in Berlin. His interests include Central Europe, memory culture, the literature of dissent, and whales. He is currently working (slowly) on a series of essays about chronic illness.

Zoe Belinsky is a writer, educator, poet, philosopher, and a Jewishly-motivated anarcho-communist. She has a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Villanova University and is currently pursuing a career in Jewish education. Her work theorizes the relationship between economic forces and the body and theorizes the practice of building communism from the body outward.

We look forward to a fruitful, fun, contentious, and comradely discussion.

Yours in hypocrisy,

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UPDATE/CORRECTION! We'll be streaming via Youtube! Here's the link: https://youtu.be/t0_00bB2M98 

Be there!

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