Workers & Utopias

Most workers of the world carry the same stigma: a sign of how the labor power of their bodies has been wrenched away from their heads, where their thoughts and imaging continue, but deprived now of the possession of their own days and working energy.
John Berger. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos.


Utopias exist only in carpets. But they know too that what they have been subjected to in their lives is intolerable. And the naming of the intolerable is itself the hope.
John Berger. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos.