Giulia

“Urbanization, we may conclude, has played a crucial role in the absorption of capital surpluses, at ever increasing geographical scales, but at the price of burgeoning processes of creative destruction that have dispossessed the masses of any right to the city whatsoever. The planet as building site collides with the ‘planet of slums’. [16] Periodically this ends in revolt, as in Paris in 1871 or the US after the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. If, as seems likely, fiscal difficulties mount and the hitherto successful neoliberal, postmodernist and consumerist phase of capitalist surplus-absorption through urbanization is at an end and a broader crisis ensues, then the question arises: where is our 68 or, even more dramatically, our version of the Commune?”
― Rebel Cities- David Harvey

“in breve, l'immaginazione viene spinta nell'irrealtà, senza una meta. Dato che la sua forza motrice è appunto la fuga dei desideri dalla realtà, non riesce più a stabilire un rapporto dialettico con la realtà. E' la rinuncia ad ogni prassi.
L'io, per potersi affermare nella realtà, deve difendersi da questa immaginazione non pratica e rimuoverla insieme con i suoi desideri. Ora però, dato che ai desideri è tagliata ogni possibilità di ritorno nella realtà e dato che essi sono sottratti alla critica della coscienza, ripercorrono a tastoni le immagini mnemoniche dell'inconscio fino a ritrovare le esperienze infantili della felicità, che sono state la causa del primo tentativo di raggiungere il mondo esterno.”
― Scheinder

“But here’s life’s most limiting truth - it’s always now, always here, never then and there.”
― Ian McEwan, Nutshell

“The strain of engaging emotionally with all that misery was exhausting. The kindness and hard work of the care assistants here was worth far more than they were paid. But this is unseen, unmentionable labour, hidden away in these human oubliettes we would rather not think about [...]. It is because caring is women's work. That attitude is embedded still in the values society apportions to the jobs people do. It is why there will never be equal pay until women's work is regarded with equal respect [...]. Women's work is still treated as if it should be given almost free, a natural function.”
― Polly Toynbee, Hard Work: Life in Low-Pay Britian