Gendered valorization favors disruption over care and regeneration

Evidence

The life force is concerned with cyclicality, care, and regeneration; the death force sounds to me a lot like “disrupt.” Obviously, some amount of both is necessary, but one is routinely valorized, not to mention masculinized, while the other goes unrecognized because it has no part in “progress.” — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 120

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames Ukeles’ life force versus death force distinction — where ‘disrupt’ is revealed as deathlike, a genuinely contrarian reframe of the tech ideal.
• XREF: Echoes the reading of how maintenance/care labor is systematically devalued, tying Odell’s argument to feminist critiques of invisible work.