a term introduced by [bell hooks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks) in [Love As The Practice Of Freedom](https://blackcommunityhamburg.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/920/2020/10/bell-hooks-Love-as-the-Practice-of-Freedom.pdf): an ethic of love is * opposite from the ethic of domination * what happens when this becomes our foundation? * can this be foundation for X? * currently, there is no powerful discourse on love emerging from politics, theories, or social movements history: * we have a history of political domination and violence * the legacy of unreconciled griefs * a culture that negates human value requires violence to sustain itself = anti-love current revolutions: * rising trend: * self-interest to end what's hurting us * focus on hardness & toughness * *not* *yet*: * collective transformation of society * end to politics of domination * ex. feminist movement that embraced white supremacy & racism * ex. black power movement that embraced sexism * Martin Luther King declared, "I have decided to love." * but no continuation of King's politics from an ethic of love ever since --> we need an ethic of love to intervene in our self-centered longing for change --> political [[decolonization]] --> ontological transformation calling for... * developing a language of X (care/love/web/?) instead of violence * decolonization: * a revival of *web* as ontology * Joanna Macy in World As Lover, World As Self, wrote: * "the refusal to *feel* take a heavy toll" * a revival of *feelings* as primacy to existence * a progressive political theory and practice on love * how to stop seeing love as "sentimental" and "irrelevant"? * a politics and judicial system of [[Practice of care]] that's valued like our system of Justice/Fairness