Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!
Period!
Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.
This chapter covers the following: End of Feudalism, the Rise of Capitalism, Colonization, Globalization, Race and Women: the Invention of a Capitalist Epistemology
Citations:
Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!
Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!
Nihilism comes from the Latin word nihil, meaning, nothing. Nihilism is typically defined as a belief in nothing. Depending on a person’s flavor of nihilism, nihilists don’t believe in objective morality, no good or evil. There is no objective knowledge, no truths and no falsehoods. There is no reason to even exist, because we are all going to be dead in the end. The universe is, and beyond that nothing: no order, no structure, no design, no purpose.
Arguably the best thinker on nihilism was 19th century German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche, a miserably cantankorous individual, whose life was burdened by excruciating stomach and migraine pain, and who died in a madhouse unable to feed himself, said there were many different stages to nihilism, but all of them relied on a willing towards nothing.
Heidegger, Martin. “‘The Word of Nietzsche: God Is Dead.’” The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays, Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2013. Buy here!
The second 5 historical objects from the book A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor.
After the Ice Age: Food & Sex 9000-3500 B.C.E.
The development of farming occurred independently in at least 7 different parts of the world at the end of the last Ice Age 10,000 years ago. This slow revolution took many centuries and had profound implications. Tending crops and domesticating animals meant that humans had for the first time to settle in one place. Farming created a food surplus that allowed larger groups of people to live together and changed not just how they lived but how they thought. New gods were developed to explain animal behavior and the seasonal cycle of crops.
In this strange video history, we look at the 100 most influential historical objects in human history. Each episode will look at five objects from the Neil MacGregor book A History of the World in 100 Objects.
Citations:
Macgregor, Neil. A History of the World in 100 Objects. Viking, 2011. Buy here!
