{"id":988,"date":"2020-07-30T20:29:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T19:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feministssoa.group.shef.ac.uk\/?p=988"},"modified":"2025-06-15T23:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T22:10:24","slug":"we-are-two-and-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"We are two, and many"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Title:<\/strong> <strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">We are two, and many<\/strong>. Collectivity and Care in the University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Authors: <\/strong>Emma Cheatle and Catalina Mej\u00eda Moreno<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Presented at:<\/strong> 16th Annual International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association [AHRA] in Dundee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Year:<\/strong> 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Abstract:<\/strong> We are two, and many. Alone, two, and a collective (Lacan, 2006 [1949]; Irigaray, 2001). In 2018 we, and others, intersected with a collaborative, Feminist Art and Architecture Collaborative (FAAC), to write the manifesto, \u2018To Manifest\u2019 (Harvard Design Magazine, No.46, \u201cNo Sweat\u201d, Dec. 2018). The writing took place at Columbia University, in a small topfloor room; eighteen laptops, eighteen pairs of hands, eighteen minds, growing a google document live, online. \u2018To Manifest\u2019 calls for care within the university, that great model of the collective. Columbia, a private elite university, remains a contested site. Easy to criticise, and yet UK universities also offer increasingly contestable conditions. While broader societal systems of care \u2013 including the maintenance of city and rural infrastructures \u2013 are being broken by structures of power, they are also eroded in the university. In our everyday teaching and working spaces we are divided; reduced back to the individual, we produce more and increasingly impactful outputs; teach in increasingly crowded, decaying spaces;<br>watch hopeless as some break under the strain. Despite the collective endeavour of the university, we\/I care for and are\/am cared about less (Tronto, 2013; Trogal, 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\">Our alternative is to redevelop collective dialogues of care \u2013 using slowness, society, close watching, observation and attention. Ethnographer Trinh T Minh-ha calls this process \u2018speaking nearby\u2019 (Chen, 1992). Akin to the psychoanalytic setting where analyst and analysand take, give and receive care in a complex triangulation, this paper is a transcript of a series of speaking nearbys. Through a collective textual and spatial voiced production, we speak of the systems and breakdowns of care, but also of the possibility of the maintenance and ethics of relationships, bodies, and welfare; and of data, citation and dissemination in<br>the spaces of the university (Ahmed, 2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link no-border-radius\" href=\"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/We_are_two_and_many_Emma_Cheatle.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conference Paper. Emma Cheatle and Catalina Mej\u00eda Moreno, presented at the 16th Annual International Conference of the AHRA in Dundee, 2019. We are two, and many. Alone, two, and a collective (Lacan, 2006 [1949]; Irigaray, 2001). In 2018 we, and others, intersected with a collaborative, Feminist Art and Architecture Collaborative (FAAC), to write the manifesto, \u2018To Manifest\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[73,80,56],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","tag-care","tag-ethics","tag-pedagogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}