#podnotes

‘The witch-hunt deepened the divisions between women and men, teaching men to fear the power of women, and destroyed a universe of practices, beliefs, and social subjects whose existence was incompatible with the capitalist work discipline, thus redefining the main elements of social reproduction’ (Federici, 1998: 165).

In other words, the witch hunt was an essential aspect of the establishment of capitalist social relations of production. ‘There is no doubt that in the “transition from feudalism to capitalism” women suffered a unique process of social degradation that was fundamental to the accumulation of capital and has remained so ever since’ (Federici, 1998: 75). The control of women and their bodies became a direct part of capitalist accumulation.

‘The female body, the uterus, [was placed] at the service of population increase and the production and accumulation of labour-power’ (Federici, 1998: 181).

As Federici powerfully clarifies, if “femininity” has been constituted in capitalist society as a work-function masking the production of the work-force under the cover of a biological destiny, then “women’s history” is “class history”

1) that women resisted erasure of matrilineal order even if only by tongue b) they likened it to being enslaved

Cover art done by Thy Le

All of the same problems apply that applied for the last episode. round robin recording, last minute calls to actors. We even had someone that was cast replace themselves last minute. I had to bring in the person they had replace them. But Glowball was the first episode to feature @angry-beibers (Jake Song) and @ack-tually-satan (Aleksander Wilde)

We were slowly and surely getting the hang of stuffing numerous actor in a room that was hot and muggy, recording lines, and escaping from the torture chamber that was my closet.

This is a favorite episode of mine, not only because I received some puntastic lines, or the after game scene. I was excited to get the story ball rolling. Nicoletta, the mad scientist,’s first appearance was in this episode an announcer and electronics expert helping the town with their annual glowball tournament. 

I also realize while writing this how much darker this show turned out than originally intended. It’s still as magnificently hopeful as planned, but a lot of the story lines that we cover throughout the first season have much darker connotations than I had originally expected. I’m actually surprised and in a way happy to see these kinds of stories pop up, as many of them really cover topics that I feel we should all talk about. New York for example in the first episode was based off of a number of Kurt Vonnegut stories, yet had a softer first draft. In the end I think it was much more fitting to the inspiration material. There’s plenty nice going on in New York, and we’ll visit it again some day. 

But, I think this episode really emphasizes the innocence of our two heroines, and the was that that kind of mindset really interacts with the gray morality world that they live in. 

Extras I didn’t get to:

Remember how I mentioned the closet being hazardous. I forgot to mention why. At the time, having removed the shelves in my closet by I think the second episode, the only thing remaining in the closet other than recording equipment were these nails, protruding from the wall at head height. And the best part was that these nails were threaded, and therefor impossible to take out of my wall by myself.

When did the nails come out? When a very injured friend of the landlord came in and fixed my sliding doors because they weren’t on tracks and therefore hard to move. Did I mention that the closet has a sliding door? So does my bathroom. Fun times.