great image : ) note that it is specifically a man, maybe the version of a woman would be different?
i don't know "bifo" beradi so i can't comment on what he's saying but that one quote on its own does suggest that he thinks is no negative consequence of the father working away from home. h : ) On 24/04/10 1:48 PM, anniea wrote: > Sorry mail left before I was finished > > Indeed Alessandro, I do agree that working in front of a computer > screen has all kind of bodily implications. > The most evident one, being the use of only fingers to expres what > ever we feel in front of a screen. The body image in our brain already > has very big hands, I am convinced that the body image of for instance > a child that uses the computer a lot will have comparatively even > bigger hand parts. > http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?img=87494 > Youngsters nowadays don't have the same brain as I had at the same age > or as had most of their teachers and that is creating a problem in > education. This is a very general problem and doesn't have anything to > do with gender. > > So what was and is bothering me is that Berardi solely talks about > women, as if it should be solely her role to take care of the baby. > Maybe it's not important, but it feels as a very conservative trait in > an otherwise very enlightening approach. > > I might be wrong. > > Annie > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:40 PM, a <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > > > Indeed Alessandro, I do agree that working in front of a computer > screen has all kind of bodily implications. > The most evident one, being the use of only fingers to expres what > ever we feel in front of a screen. The body image in our brain > already has very big hands, I am convinced that the body image of > for instance a child that uses the computer a lot will have > comparatively even bigger hand parts. > http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?img=87494 > Youngsters nowadays don't have the same brain as I had at the same > age or and that is re > > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Alessandro Ludovico > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi Anne and list, > > Actually, as you pointed out, Bifo is a master in analyzing the > contemporary forms of immaterial and information-related > alienation. > > Probably he meant that: capital is composing an almost unbearable > puzzle of alienating practices for the social class that he > defines > as the "cognitariat". There's a specific piece of this puzzle > related > to women, and it is distancing her from their young babies in > various > ways. In post-pregnancy, for example, she has to return to > work when > the baby is 3 months old (or even before), usually she works > distant > from home, and usually she has to work full time or even more > regardless of her condition, especially in private companies). > That's > worst then it used to be. All of the above sums up to her > non-physical work in front of a screen. So her important physical > relationship with the baby is more than ever reduced, and her > body is > even more physically deprived, because she's using only hands on a > keyboard with an overstimulation of the "soul", as Bifo > defines it in > his latest book "The Soul at Work" (review > http://www.neural.it/art/2010/04/franco_bifo_berardi_the_soul_a.phtml) > > In my humble opinion, > Alessandro Ludovico > > >Lately I have been reading "Precarious Rhapsody" by Franco "Bifo" > >Berardi. It was very interesting to read and gave me the > feeling of > >finally meeting a "new" perspective and an original thinker on > >capitalism, sickness, work, boredom, terror and error, > machines and > >even poetry. > > > >There is one phrase that I can't forget : > >"In neoliberal society women are forced to work away from > home, and > >so they are distanced from their babies, in conditions of > >psycho-psysical stress, anxiety and affective impoverishment." > >What does this mean? > >Does Berardi want women to stay at home? > > > >Anyone on this list that knows his work and writing better > than I do > >ca, shed some light? > > > >Yours > >Annie Abrahams > > > -- ____________________________________________________________ helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst [email protected] http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.avatarbodycollision.org http://www.upstage.org.nz ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
