5LL #246 - Mothers, Cars, McMansions, Climate, Astrology

I'll Do the Dishes
Sophie Lewis, London Review of Books
To say that life-preserving work (such as feeding, hoovering or wound-dressing) is ‘essential’ – as we did during the Covid pandemic and as Angela Garbes does in her new book about mothering – isn’t sufficient. The better question would be: essential for what?
Cars Are Deadly Weapons
Kate Aronoff, The New Republic
Cars remain a prolific killer of children and adults.
Bad Manors
Kate Wagner, The Baffler
The McMansion is American bourgeois life in all its improvidence.
Climate Still Changes Everything
Alyssa Battistoni, Dissent
The U.S. climate movement has largely grown in response to setbacks and defeats. What will it do in the face of an underwhelming victory?
The Political Social Ontology of Astrology
Matthew Cull and Nadia Mehdi, Spectre
Astrology is not merely compatible with capital, it is ampliative of capital, speeding up the reproduction of workers, and expanding the raw material to be extracted by platforms.
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