The Political Thought of John Holloway: Struggle, Critique, Emancipation by Alfonso García Vela & Alberto Bonnet

Author:Alfonso García Vela & Alberto Bonnet
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783031345715
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

7. Emancipating Our (Lost) Bodies in the Pandemic Era

Katerina Nasioka1 and Marios Panierakis2

(1)Independent Scholar in Marxist Theory, Aegina, Greece

(2)Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Puebla, México

Katerina Nasioka (Corresponding author)

Email: [email protected]

Marios Panierakis

Email: [email protected]

What beautiful nights!

The nights when we meet again, with no identities.

The nights when our glances meet, clear,

away from the shadows of money.

The nights when our glances become full,

Walking–perhaps under compulsion–down a different path.

We met after so long a confinement

yet the problem is not that we were confined in our homes.

The problem is that we are confined

as objects within social relations.

And objects do not breathe (…)

We met, and we meet, at the fall of the old,

inside the storm.

At times when the social relations of capital are left inactive.

Let us walk this space,

let us walk towards a different direction,

let us walk into the storm (…)

We bloom; we bloom at night;

in the nights of the storm, our storm.

And if we want our days to bloom,

all we must do is fill them with hours of rebellion.

With a doing as simple as these encounters,

a doing as daily as our night-time encounters.

(Pikralides, May 2020)

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