Volia Davydzik

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...

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 privileg...

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 wea...

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 presiden...

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.