To read, via nyer https://www.newyorker.com/culture/q-and-a/rebecca-solnit-on-the-politics-of-pleasure
…a natural history of gardening, a dissection of the rose as capitalist metaphor, or a defense of art and beauty as a bulwark against the annihilating forces of totalitarianism.
…pleasure as a form of resistance
roses–they became a symbol for the whole contemporary world.
Part of living in the contemporary world is knowing the conditions under which [ANYTHING & EVERYTHING]…are produced
…suggesting that meaning is inherent in materials, if you pay attention to them, and meaning is also inherent in the process of making.
