Month: March 2022

I’ve written before about exercise on this blog, last time discussing the relationship and association between exercise and virtue – as in, the idea that to exercise is necessarily always virtuous and how this harms people with a disordered or difficult relationship to it. When I last wrote about exercise I was struggling intensely with… Continue reading Exercise and the body

In a lot left-aligned and liberal spaces discussing the topics of fatphobia, eating disorders, body confidence/postivity there is often some sage advice about ‘listening to your body’ as in, paying attention to what your body seems to be telling you and trying to respond to that in some way. There is an idea that paying… Continue reading ‘Listen to your body’ – capitalism, alienation and embodiment