Dear Loving Objects is a philosophical podcast exploring how collective life is formed through relations of care, solidarity, and shared vulnerability. Moving across social philosophy, feminist theory, anarchist thought, and contemporary art, the podcast asks what it means to think love politically.
Hi, I’m Volia, an anarchofeminist, researcher, and lecturer working on social philosophy, feminist theory, and protest cultures.
Episode 5 What Can an Object Do? Love, Attachment, and Collective Life
What do the objects we love reveal about the ways we live together?
Drawing on Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, and Slavoj Žižek, this episode explores how objects of desire, emotional attachments, and material relations shape collective life.
From romantic love and cruel optimism to queer orientations, intra-action, and making kin, we examine how relationships organise our possibilities, sustain our everyday lives, and sometimes prevent us from imagining alternatives.
What happens when we understand collectivity through the attachments, dependencies, and material conditions that make living together possible?
17 Aug 2026
Episode 4 Language for Unfinished
This episode explores the difficulty of translating ordinary experience into political meaning. Starting from migration, academic precarity, and single motherhood, it asks why structural conditions often appear from within as a series of mundane tasks rather than as something politically significant.
The discussion then turns to revolution, Belarus in 2020, to examine how political theory privileges visible events, rupture, leadership, and defeat while often overlooking the infrastructures that sustain collective life: care, communication, mutual aid, memory, and everyday forms of coordination. Through Goya’s Ghosts, Louise Michel, and the figure of the survivor, the episode reflects on revolution as a transformation of relations, perception, and political capacity that may continue long after the public event has been suppressed.
1 May 2026
Episode 3 with Mary Dyja
In this episode of Dear Loving Objects, I’m joined by artist Mary Dyja, whose practice works through knitting and crocheting as a way of thinking about the relationship between the body and its environments.
Her work unfolds through slow, repetitive processes and explores how materials, bodies, and micro-environments come into relation — through tension, collaboration, and care. Moving between wearable forms, soft structures, and spatial installations, her practice creates organic, often soft sculptural forms that resemble processes of growth and transformation .
This episode touches on what it means to inhabit space under unstable conditions, and how making can become a way of relating — to materials, to others, and to forms of life that don’t fully settle.
Mary Dyja is currently part of a group exhibition exploring home as a process of arrival, return, and ongoing inhabitation.
Links
https://www.instagram.com/shesaidgallery
https://www.instagram.com/biocrochet/
https://www.instagram.com/vytik_art_collective/
12 Apr 2026
Episode 2: Collectivity, Care, and Living in Rupture
This episode looks at how collective life continues after the 2020 Belarus protests. Through works by Marina Naprushkina, Nadya Sayapina, and Elena Rabkina, it explores collectivity beyond representation — in care, language, and fragmentation.
Silvia Federici — Revolution at Point Zero / writings on reproduction and commons
Jack Halberstam — The Queer Art of Failure
Zoe Leonard — I want a president
Marina Naprushkina
I want a president (2021)
https://marina-naprushkina.de/i-want-a-president-2/
Nadya Sayapina
Dollhouse (2020)
https://cargocollective.com/NadyaSayapina/DOLLHOUSE
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nadyasayapina1411
Elena Rabkina
Belarusian Dream (2024)
https://www.ifa.de/en/blog/article/belarusian-brushstrokes-of-resilience/
https://rabkina.org/
5 Mar 2026
Intro Dear Loving Objects
What does it mean to love politically?
In this introductory episode I explain why this podcast exists, what ideas shaped it, and how objects, relations, and care can help us rethink collectivity.
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