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[- Do theoreticians have lives?
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By Aileen, Section question corner
Posted on Tue Nov 11th, 2003 at 08:53:59 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Or artists or activists or programmers or any of the many other people producing words and ideas and important different perspectives? What happens to the important words and ideas and perspectives, when the people producing them are burdened or even overwhelmed with a sad child, aging parents, a dying friend, an altercation with the neighbors, a painfully disintegrating intimate relationship, physical ailments? Do priorities shift when vital household appliances break down?
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Working together - almost exclusively online - with different changing groups of people, I have noticed that it makes a difference, to me at least, whether the people involved are more likely to look after one another, shifting responsibilities and workloads if necessary to allow for different needs, unexpected occurrences. In other groups, where more people are more concerned with making sure that they are not stuck with carrying too much of a load for the others, I think it seems less efficient.
I like to read the "acknowledgements" sections in books, just reading the names of people who somehow helped to make it possible for this book to be written. Does it mean something, though, does it affect the words and ideas and perspectives that are produced, that someone somewhere has to cook and wash and take care of the cat's litter box? How does it affect the ideas we have of the kind of society we want to live in, if those everyday chores and irritations and pleasures are taken for granted, considered too trivial to mention? |
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