Event overview
Bleeding Edges and Solvent Objects: Racial Capitalism and Urban Technopoetics
If the algorithmic city is an instrument of financial capital, then it represents racial capitalism’s latest spatial project, its new bleeding edge. This is something we learn from the black radical tradition: that technologies of financial accumulation presuppose spatial modes of dispossession. But according to Cedric Robinson the tradition makes another claim: that the dispossessed create ‘solvent objects’ able to dissolve the colonial hold of the metropolis. This programme explores the work of anti-colonial poetics, and asks if an insurgent technopoetics is emerging that can confront new urban modes of domination by renewing our habits of assembly. Through a series of talks, screenings and discussions we will listen to the alienating sensuosity of sounds, take in the opaque force of images, pay close attention to the gestural, and enter into the social production of thought.
[Image: 'Twilight City.' Black Audio Film Collective, 1989]
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 4 Oct 2018 |
5:00pm - 7:00pm Ramon Amaro, Dhanveer Singh Brar and Louis Moreno |
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| 18 Oct 2018 |
5:00pm - 7:00pm ‘Twilight City’ (Black Audio Film Collective, 1989) with Gail Lewis |
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| 25 Oct 2018 |
5:00pm - 7:00pm Laura Grace Ford |
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| 1 Nov 2018 |
5:00pm - 7:00pm ‘Serpent Rain’ and ‘4 Waters’ (Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva, 2016/2018) with Arjuna Neuman |
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| 15 Nov 2018 |
5:00pm - 7:00pm Miranda Iossifidis |
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| 22 Nov 2018 |
5:00pm - 7:00pm ‘Finally Got the News’ (League of Revolutionary Black Workers, 1970) with Ashwani Sharma and Alberto Toscano |
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| 29 Nov 2018 |
5:00pm - 7:00pm Adam Farah / free.yard |
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| 6 Dec 2018 |
5:00pm - 7:00pm Abdou Maliq Simone |
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