Relay Column: The Mystery & Attachment of the City (Keisuke Sugawara)

This text was inspired by a certain woman who appears repeatedly in John Holloway's "Crack Capitalism" (2010, Kawade Shobo Shinsha), which was translated into Japanese in 2011.

She is a worker. However, one day she decides to take a day off from work and heads to a nearby park. She sits on a bench, opens a book, and continues to turn the pages quietly. By stopping the very act of creating and sustaining this world, which workers themselves contribute to, a new societal beginning is opened. She is depicted as the embodiment of Holloway's plan for social transformation discussed repeatedly in Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today" (2009). Here she is portrayed as someone who skips work to read in the park.

Now, I'd like to pose a question. Why did she go to the park? Why must her reading, which is in itself the very key to social transformation for Holloway, occur in that park?

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I do not buy clothes. It is not that I dislike clothing, but I rarely think to actively purchase them. Of course, there are times when I do buy clothes.