#Political Resistance

Doing Nothing as Resistance to Productivity Culture

Jenny Odell’s line begins with a diagnosis: many modern societies treat human worth as something measurable through output—hours logged, goals hit, content produced. In that framework, rest is tolerated only if it refuel...

Rest as Resistance in a Culture of Exhaustion

Tricia Hersey’s line overturns a familiar assumption: that rest is something we earn only after proving our productivity. Instead, she frames rest as a deliberate choice that asserts human worth beyond output.

Poetry as Key and Shield for Freedom

At the outset, Césaire’s injunction reframes poetry as a tool that cuts and heals at once: a weapon that does not maim bodies but dismantles cages of language, and a key that opens civic and imaginative doors. In Cahier...