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In an impossibly possible political ritual that asks for your participation, Jeremy Wade’s 5000-year-old Battlefield Nurse crawls into the light of fellowship with you, may we stand hand and hand in the face of the howling wave form sum algorithmic death codes. So deathly these days, which means that “being with” is more important than ever! Where is love? Has it been sold down the river? Yes! If you can’t swim we have little pink floaties. It’s time to put this love thing to the test. Not Jennifer Aniston in a Rom Com on an international flight with a bag of chips and a Xanax but a political love, a love to serve as a social-political strategy for times of crisis. “All kinds of social movements have to do with peoples co involvement with strangers,” says theorist Michael Warner. Thanks Michael!
The nurse would add that love as politics has been an implicit strategy for numerous civil rights movements. However, love is sold to promote the endless paradigms of exclusive norms and tickets on a cruise ship called social reproduction. The honeymoon is over! Can we rewrite all the shit stories around love? Where is love? At the moment it seems mired in sticky romance and cheap lockets that bind its potential in the incestuous circle of normative relations. We need love to serve as a force of interdependence with intimate strangers and all earthly creatures. “Never Met A Stranger!” Sing it on the mountain top!! The Battlefield Nurse will lead a participatory intervention, a fake political ritual repositioning love as a hyper relational ethic. Side effects may include quitting your job, going to divinity school to become a non-denominational Chaplain who works in hospitals and prisons, becoming a social worker, and wielding love as a force that can bring all of us strangers together better on the battlefield.
The nurse would add that love as politics has been an implicit strategy for numerous civil rights movements. However, love is sold to promote the endless paradigms of exclusive norms and tickets on a cruise ship called social reproduction. The honeymoon is over! Can we rewrite all the shit stories around love? Where is love? At the moment it seems mired in sticky romance and cheap lockets that bind its potential in the incestuous circle of normative relations. We need love to serve as a force of interdependence with intimate strangers and all earthly creatures. “Never Met A Stranger!” Sing it on the mountain top!! The Battlefield Nurse will lead a participatory intervention, a fake political ritual repositioning love as a hyper relational ethic. Side effects may include quitting your job, going to divinity school to become a non-denominational Chaplain who works in hospitals and prisons, becoming a social worker, and wielding love as a force that can bring all of us strangers together better on the battlefield.