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Aliko
Weste
Hi there, I'm Aliko, Welcome!
At the heart of all that I do in the world lies a profound dedication to carving out space for our humanity. As you explore my website, you'll find many avenues where I channel this commitment— personal development coaching, brand and website building with my design firm, speaking, writing, photography, and my podcast.
My greatest hope is that as you explore my offerings, you find yourself in me. I look forward to finding myself in you one day if I haven't already.
For any support you need, please don't hesitate to reach out at itsalikoweste@gmail.com.
Endless rising,
Aliko
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![MOVE FOR YOUR MAGIC: Part 2
(See previous post for part 1 or link in bio for full blog post)
I call my body of work around the history of capitalism “Returning to Our Houses of Magic,” our houses of magic meaning the body. Capitalism was directly and systemically organized to control and subdue the body.
For example, in the early 1600’s there existed both a disdain and an obsession with the body simultaneously. This era saw an obsession with the body as a machine, at a time when the bourgeoise were attempting to maximize the amount of human labor from the proletariat (working class) body.
In contrast, there existed also disdain for the body due to its animalistic qualities. Enter the Victorian era stage left where farting, pooping, and burping were seen as akin to animal behavior, the cis white male body was considered the closest body to God and the control, abuse, suppression of any body that was not that of a cis white male was rampant.
Philosophers at the time, like Thomas Hobbes and Descartes, were key in influencing society’s relationship to the body. Sylvia Federici in her infamous book Caliban and the Witch writes “Descartes and hobbs express two different projects with respect to corporeal reality. In Descartes, the reduction of the bod to mechanical matter allows for the development of mechanisms of self management that makes the body the subject of the will. In Hobbes, by contrast, the mechanization of the body justifies the total submission of the individual to the power of the state. In both, however the outcome is a redefinition of bodily attributes that makes the body... suited for the regularity and automatism demanded by [capitalism].”
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