Lavoro di cura e riproduzione sociale: Un nuovo paradigma estetico-politico

The article first aims to clarify the concept of the social reproduction of individuals in the neoliberal system by analysing the processes of privatisation of care. The analysis is placed after the Covid-19 pandemic, assuming that the theme of reproduction – basic in feminist analyses – has now become central in the consciousness of many. Moving secondarily from the discourse and claims of the latest feminist wave, the text reflects as much on a radical change in an anti-capitalist sense of the relations between gender, "race" and class as on the elaboration of a new aesthetic-political paradigm of reproduction. Against all economicist reductionism, it is about returning to the "roots of the human" and its sensibility, to the problem of the relationship between the sexes, in order to conceive a perceptive and affective reconfiguration of social relations. What Argentine feminism also defined as a "revolución sensible". In this sense, some recent artistic performances are emblematic, which have worked on the visibilisation of violence, exploitation, patriarchal and capitalist, and the strike as a form not only of economic struggle against these, but of emblematic existential, political, imaginative revolt, generative in nuce of the new.