(after Manet's “Olympia,” and Irigaray's “Women on the Market”)

(cw: sexual and graphic violence, misogyny, Capital)

 

Capital with the big ‘C,’ of course:

Feudal as Father, killed by Capital

who is son, capitalizing on the feudal

relations of women - named capital who

are nothing but names of capitals, relations

in the logic of capital crime. The Sciences are

complicit in Capital: take her race, for in-

stance, a label by Capital, like canned soup, complicit

with its listed nutritional values in capitals. This stance

regarding capital, everyone knows (but only with

the work done for, not against, capital). Regarding

how both “Olympia” and her Servant under capital are the

commodities of a masculinized capital is not enough. How

our asses, sight ruminated by capital: to eye commodities

alike Oedipus Rex eyed his women, Mother as capital. Our

course like his: eyes ripped, “Olympia” gone, Capital still alike.