Working Utopias

Christina Ciupke & Anke Strauß

Christina Ciupke & Anke Strauß

I hope work as a relation is friendship.

I hope work as a relation becomes less dominated by fear.

I hope work as a relation is trying again.

I worry that work relations become increasingly strategic.

I worry work relations are undermined by competition.

I hope that work relations can be structured differently than merely through market logic.

I hope work as a relation is collective daydreaming.

 

I worry about the strategic cruelty of professionals.

I wonder what parasites do to work relations.

I worry that work as a relation is defined by efficiency.

I hope work as a relation can transgress networking logics.

I hope we start building packs.

I hope work as a relation is based on trust.

I worry that work as a relation is dominated by opportunism.

 

I hope that work as a relation is making space for togetherness.

I hope work as a relation has more time to unfold.

I hope that work as a relation can balance fears.

I worry about how much is excluded in current work relations.

I hope that decision-making is shared in work-relations.

I worry about abusive work relations.

I wonder what complicity does to work relations.

 

I worry that work as a relation is affected by opportunistic strategies.

I worry that work as a relation is affected by an increasing unequal distribution of resources.

I hope that work as a relation embraces the unpredictable.

I hope that work as a relation gives shelter for the not yet fully grown, not fully developed ideas, desires, plans and people.

 

I hope that work as a relation can also handle deals.

I hope that work as a relation can recuperate patience again.

I worry that work as a relation is overpowered by expectations.

I worry that work as a relation has been replaced by functions and positions.

I hope we can work side by side.

I hope that work as a relation gives more space to everyone.

I worry that intimacy can be abused in work relations.

 

I hope that we do not lose respect for the other.

I hope work as a relation nurtures solidarity.

I hope that work as a relation is growing.

I wonder how to think about the future of work relations.

I hope that work as a relation gives enough time for listening.

I hope that work as a relation leads to joint forces.

I hope work as a relation invites [ex]change.

I hope work as a relation becomes more caring.

I hope we can also let go of work relations.

 

I hope.

 

Hope as being committed to a proposal as a practice of respect.

Hope as listening.

Hope as witchcraft that names and invites those who are missing.

Hope as a sensing and working with different energy levels.

Hope as a practice to unfold something powerful.

 

Hope as picking up and joining ideas of different people as a practice of mutual engagement.

Hope as sharing worries, dreams and personal longings as a practice of trust.

Hope as awareness of the importance of protecting, nourishing and letting the inside grow to open up to the outside.

Hope as a being open and curious towards others as a practice of being non-judgemental.

Hope as acknowledging the fragility of embryonic encounters as a practice of protecting.

 

Hope as making space despite fear.

Hope as a practice of spacing.

 

Hope as a practice of bricolage.

Hope as exploring the threshold that in- and excludes instead of reproducing it.

Hope as rejecting the power of the factual.

Hope as dancing as a practice of togetherness, that does not need words.

Hope as focussing on interest and fascination instead of achievement and expertise.

Hope as a practice of rendering the unknown as a lateral presence that does not give answers but determines action.

 

Hope as experimenting with transgressing the own boundaries as a practice of taking risks.

Hope as being prepared to be disappointed.

Hope as remaining prepared to be affected to affect.