iLiana Fokianaki, “The Bureau of Care: Introductory Notes on the Care-less and Care-full,” e-flux journal, no. 113 (November 2020) →.
The second edition of 1866 added Perseverance to the subtitle. The book is now in the public domain and can be found at →.
Asa Briggs, “Samuel Smiles: The Gospel of Self-Help,” History Today 37, no. 5. (May 1987) →.
Turner, 1920, as quoted in Samuel Bazzi, Martin Fiszbein, and Mesay Gebresilasse, “Frontier Culture: The Roots and Persistence of ‘Rugged Individualism’ in the United States,” Econometrica 88, no. 6 (2020) →.
Alison Bashford, Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 1. See also Patrik Chakrabati, Materials and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century (Manchester University Press, 2010).
See Ronald F. Inglehart, “Global Cultural Patterns,” chap. 3 in Cultural Evolution (Cambridge University Press, 2018), 40.
Melissa Matthews, “Jane Fonda’s Workout Is The Bright Spot In My Self-Isolation,” Women’s Health, April 12, 2020 →.
The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs, ed. David Hilliard (University of New Mexico Press, 2008), 3–4.
Silvia Federici, Wages against Housework (Falling Wall, 1975).
Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light (Firebrand Books, 1988), 126.
Doctors Without Borders, “Cepheid Charges Four Times More Than It Should Per Covid-19 Test,” doctorswithoutborders.org, July 28, 2020 →.
John Sharman, “Amazon Delivery Drivers ‘Urinate in Bottles to Keep to Schedule Delivering 200 Parcels a Day,’ Whistleblowers Claim,” December 10, 2017, The Independent →.
Sara Ahmed, “Selfcare as Warfare,” Feminist Killjoys (blog), August 25, 2014 →.
The author would like to thank Elvia Wilk for her care in editing this essay, and the e-flux journal team for always caring to read what I write. Many thanks go to Zdenka Badovinac for the invitation to contribute to this issue. Some of the arguments on self-care and the collective developed here began as initial thoughts published in Gropius Bau Journal in May of this year.