Rhyd Wildermuth Rhyd Wildermuth

Reclaiming the Body of the Witch: a review of Beyond the Periphery of the Skin from Silvia Federici

While Caliban and the Witch told us the story of how bodies were subjugated and how we became separated from our bodies, her latest book, Beyond the Periphery of the Skin—Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism, addresses how our relations to the body play out now, especially in the digital age where the cyborg (half human, half machine) has replaced the earlier mechanistic model of the body-as-machine.

Read More

Place of Discourse and Folklore of the African Diaspora

On being white and talking about racism. How to witness and learn from Afro-Brazilian stories of resistance, through lenses free from the objectifying effects of the white gaze.

Read More