I have been rereading some of my favorite texts by Marina Vishmidt, uncovering new ones as I read her as an act of mouring her untimely transition and celebrate what she has left us with. Today this beautiful text on maintenance. southasastateofmind.com/article/pure... rest in power marina

Pure Maintenance

by Marina Vishmidt   Why it’s not wise to throw the baby of maintenance out with the dirty bathwaters of capitalist social life.  Mierle Lad

"This starts to give us some of the tools to reimagine maintenance not just as reproduction—that is, as maintaining what already exists in a state as self-similar as possible, cut off from any idea of novelty or disruption—but rather as resistance."