After Hegel, Who Are We Going to Spit On?

«There is no goal, there is only the present. We are the dark past of the world, we are the creators of the present».

Thus concludes Carla Lonzi, in 1970, Sputiamo su Hegel, an essay that shall remain the first and fundamental step to depart from patriarchal culture for feminist practices and theories, in Italy and beyond.

Spitting on Hegel meant distancing oneself from the dialectic and the traps of recognition, from the claims of equality and inclusion within male power, from universals and from the social safety of culture, shifting a radical critique of the very concept of power to adamantly and firmly affirm the «unexpected subject» that feminism has been and continues to be.

But what are we going to spit on today since Hegel stopped moving the invisible threads of emancipation theories?

Since when does neoliberalism decline into compatible differences, bodies free to enjoy and consume, but whose subordination lies perhaps in the very folds of their freedom?

Since when does patriarchy, in its planetary crisis, return to express itself through the worst authoritarianism and new and ancient forms of violence against women?

Since when does life dedicated to emotions, reproducing and care become an integral part of being put to work?

Since when, and this is nothing new, does subordination take the shapes of love?

After Hegel, who are we going to spit on? is an open call to written pieces in any language and of any genre, promoted by the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, by the Italo-Latin American Institute of Rome, by the master in Gender Studies and Policies from the Roma Tre University by Iaph Italia (International Association of Women Philosophers) and the Department of Communication and Social Research of the University of Rome La Sapienza.