Marije van den Berg

@marijevandenberg.nl

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werkt aan gemeenschapskracht en het organiseren dat daarvoor nodig is. Schrijft onderzoeksrapporten, columns en boeken 'De beleidsbubbel' (2023) 'Stop.' (2020), 'Je bent niet de baas, maar je moet er wel iets mee' (2025). www.democratieinuitvoering.nl

There are no women equivalents for Michelangelo or Rembrandt, Delacroix or Cezanne, Picasso or Matisse, or even, in very recent times, for de Kooning or Warhol, any more than there are black American equivalents for the same. If there actually were large numbers of "hidden" great women artists, or if there really should be different standards for women's art as opposed to men's--and one can't have it both ways--then what are feminists fighting for? If women have in fact achieved the same status as men in the arts, then the status quo is fine as it is. But in actuality, as we all know, things as they are and as they have been, in the arts as in a hundred other areas, are stultifying, oppressive, and discouraging to all those, women among them, who did not have the good fortune to be born white, preferably middle c1ass, and above all, male. The fault lies not in our stars, our hormones, our menstrual cycles, or our empty internal spaces, but in our institutions and our education--education understood to include everything that happens to us from the moment we enter this world of meaningful symbols, signs, and signals. The miracle is, in fact, that given the overwhelming against women, or blacks, that so many of both have managed to achieve so much sheer excellence, in those bailiwicks of white masculine prerogative like science, politics, or the arts. It is when one really starts thinking about the implications of "Why have there been no great women artists?" that one begins to realize to what extent our consciousness of how things are in the world has been conditioned--and often falsified--by the way the most important questions are posed. We tend to take it for granted that there really is an East Asian Problem, a Poverty Problem, a Black Problem--and a Woman Problem. But first we must ask ourselves who is formulating these "questions," and then, what purposes such formulations may serve. (We may, of course, refresh our memories with the connotations of the Nazis' "…
Ichneumon xanthorius sluipwesp
Cover van het boek “Je bent niet de baas maar je moet er wel iets mee”
De wereld is helemaal gek geworden
Steenhommel
My case is that the world is seriously threatened at every level, and its management is in disarray. Famous firms and whole industries are in turmoil, and require injections of public money. We have had (it used to be unthinkable) strikes by doctors and teachers who contend that the health and education systems are near collapse, as the taxation system seems also to be. Somehow it has become acceptable that the way to handle a crowd of kids playing hell on the campus is to turn out in gas masks and shoot them. We have alienation, pollution, violence-every kind of environmental and society threat... . Then I argue that our traditional conception of management has broken down
Plaatje van mensen die samen iets dragen met een “vacature” tussen hen in en de tekst erboven “Draagvlak creeer je door te helpen dragen”
Straatnaambord met “Nelson Mandela-laan” erop
Het gaat om deze alinea “Zou Trump dat doorhebben? Dragen wij nu bij aan het verstevigen van het Russische vertoog? En daarmee aan de door extreemrechtse Nederlanders herhaalde propaganda dat het eigenlijk het Westen is, dat de Russen uitdaagt? U weet, dat verhaal wordt al jaren nagepraat door onze eigen landverraders van Forum voor Democratie. “De VS zijn deze oorlog begonnen”, beweerde Thierry Baudet. Er zijn zelfs momenten geweest dat Trump iets soortgelijks beweerde, vooral na een-op-eentjes met Poetin.”
“Laten we de gemeenschap zo woonlastenvrij mogelijk maken” zegt Marije van den Berg op deze foto.