Dr Louis Moreno

Staff details

Position Senior Lecturer
Department Visual Cultures
Email L.Moreno (@gold.ac.uk)
Dr Louis Moreno

My work investigates the cultural and historical modalities of financial capitalism with a critical focus on the spatial aesthetics of architecture, music and urbanism.

With a training in urban geography, architectural history, philosophy and literature, I am theoretically engaged with the methodological problems and transdisciplinary opportunities cities generate both as objects of cultural study as well as urban processes in constant flux.

These interests have generated a wide range of research into the urban modalities of architecture, music, cinema and literature. The overall aim of which is to understand how the spatial transformations of social life represent, at the level of everyday life, patterns of change in the material and unconscious infrastructures of urban economic power.

I am the Programme Leader for the Visual Cultures PhD Programme and a member of the curatorial research collective ‘freethought’ and the study ensemble Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective.

Academic qualifications

  • PhD in Geography, University College London 2016
  • MSc in Architectural History, University College London 2008
  • BA in English Literature and Philosophy, University of East Anglia 1996

Teaching and Supervision

I am the primary supervisor of the following MPhil-PhD projects :
Dele Adeyemo ‘The Last Dark Continent’ (CHASE-AHRC funded)

Lynnée Denise 'Turntable Epistemology: Sound System Migration and the 1980s Black Queer Sound' (CHASE-AHRC funded)

Nastassia Nasser 'Into the Fault Zone - Excavating the Architectonics of Occupation' (CHASE- AHRC funded)

Xavier Acarin 'The Social Museum of Barcelona - Urban Performativity and the Ecology of Knowledge'

I convene the following modules:

MPhil-PhD Visual Cultures / MRes Visual Cultures
VC71021A: RESEARCH METHODS

MA Contemporary Art Theory
VC71014C/B: SPATIAL BIOPOLITICS

BA History of Art
VC53102A: ANIMATING ARCHITECTURE
VC53110A: URBAN REVOLUTIONS

Publications and research outputs

Book Section

Moreno, Louis. 2022. Internal Empire : The Neoclassical Architecture of Racial Capitalism. In: Kelly M. Rich; Nicola M. Rizzuto and Susan Zieger, eds. The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, Environment. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, pp. 43-59. ISBN 9780810145504

Moreno, Louis. 2022. Always Crashing in the Same City: Immobilien, Psychisches Kapital und Planetares Begehren. In: Joerg Franzbecker; Naomi Hennig and Florian Wüst, eds. X Properties. Berliner Hefte zu Geschichte und Gegenwart der Stadt 11. Berlin: nGbK (neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst), pp. 77-103. ISBN 9783946674108

Brar, Dhanveer Singh and Moreno, Louis. 2021. Notes on Listening and Hearing. In: Jeanne van Heeswijk; Maria Hlavajova and Rachael Rakes, eds. Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262542500

Moreno, Louis. 2021. The Presence of the Past in the Platform, or the Cultural Logic of Absolute Rent. In: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, eds. Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents. Rotterdam: nai010 uitgevers, pp. 63-72. ISBN 9789462086159

Moreno, Louis. 2020. Fracking Sociality: Architecture, real estate, and the internet’s new urbanism. In: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, eds. Data Publics: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 147-166. ISBN 9780367184728

Hameed, Ayesha; Eshun, Kodwo and Moreno, Louis. 2017. Sonic Utopias: The Last Angel of History. A Conversation between Ayesha Hameed, Kodwo Eshun and Louis Moreno. In: Henriette Gunkel; Ayesha Hameed and Simon D. O'Sullivan, eds. Futures and Fictions. London: Repeater, pp. 249-267. ISBN 9781910924631

Moreno, Louis. 2017. David Harvey. In: A Latham and R Kock, eds. Key Thinkers on Cities. Sage Publishing. ISBN 9781473907751

Moreno, Louis. 2014. The Sound of Detroit: Notes, Tones and Rhythms from Underground. In: Matthew Gandy and BJ Nilsen, eds. The Acoustic City. Berlin: Jovis, pp. 99-107. ISBN 9783868592719

Article

Brar, Dhanveer Singh; Moreno, Louis; Harney, Stefano; Moten, Fred; Okiji, Fumi; Rekret, Paul and Rose-Antoinette, Ronald. 2020. Music and Economic Planning. South Atlantic Quarterly, 119(1), pp. 133-151. ISSN 0038-2876

Moreno, Louis. 2019. Why wasn't the rentier euthanised? A review of The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain. Antipode Online,

Moreno, Louis and Bang Shin, Hyun. 2018. The Urban Process Under Planetary Accumulation by Dispossession. CITY, 22(1), pp. 78-87. ISSN 1360-4813

Moreno, Louis. 2018. Always crashing in the same city: real estate, psychic capital and planetary desire. CITY, 22(1), pp. 152-168. ISSN 1360-4813

Moreno, Louis. 2014. Mob deep: The underground current of urban revolution. Dialogues in Human Geography, 4(2), pp. 238-242. ISSN 2043-8206

Moreno, Louis. 2014. The urban process under financialised capitalism. City, 18(3), pp. 244-268. ISSN 1360-4813

Moreno, Louis. 2012. A Review of “Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research and the Production of Theory”. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(4), pp. 885-890. ISSN 0004-5608

Conference or Workshop Item

Moreno, Louis and George, Edward. 2023. 'On Broadwater Farm: Dub Housing and other planes of consistency (part one) Edward George in conversation with Louis Moreno'. In: On Broadwater Farm: Dub Housing and other planes of consistency (part one) Edward George in conversation with Louis Moreno. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 4 May 2023.

Moreno, Louis and Brar, Dhanveer Singh. 2022. 'Seven Theses on P-Funk'. In: eleven theses on p-funk. Nottingham Contemporary, United Kingdom 9 June 2022.

Moreno, Louis and Vishmidt, Marina. 2019. 'End-of-the-World Trade: On the Speculative Economies of Art and Extraction'. In: End-of-the-World Trade: On the Speculative Economies of Art and Extraction. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 21 - 22 June 2019.

Brar, Dhanveer Singh and Moreno, Louis. 2018. 'At a Greater Distance than Sound: Wynter’s ‘new hypothesis’ and the ‘culture of dread’'. In: Genres of the Human: On Sylvia Wynter. Kings College London, United Kingdom.

Eshun, Kodwo; Moreno, Louis and Hameed, Ayesha. 2016. 'In conversation with Louis Moreno and Ayesha Hameed'. In: Stadtklang, Sonic Utopias, Utopia Treasury. Somerset House, United Kingdom 20 March 2016.

Audio

Moreno, Louis. 2022. Podcast recording of walking tour of Euston, Somers Town & King's Cross (July 2022).

Performance

Moreno, Louis; George, Edward; Sharma, Ash and Rekret, Paul. 2023. Monopolated Light & Power presentation (San Mei Gallery). In: "Monopolated Light & Power", San Mei Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 8 June 2023.

Moreno, Louis. 2023. Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective (Echoes of Dissent Vol. 1) - Louis Moreno, Edward George, et al.. In: "Echoes of Dissent Vol. 1", Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium, 2 - 3 June 2023.

Moreno, Louis; George, Edward and Brar, Dhanveer Singh. 2023. Jah Shaka and CLR James (A Conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Singh Brar - organised by Louis Moreno with Numbers). In: "A Conversation with Edward George", Glasgow, United Kingdom, 16 April 2023.

Project

Moreno, Louis. 2023 - 2025 Versioning as Method : Music, space and the musical de-estrangement of difference.

Show/Exhibition

Moreno, Louis. 2022. Unhoused Music. In: "Unhoused Music", BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands, 12 - 13 November 2022.

Moreno, Louis. 2021. Music as Spectral Infrastructure. In: "Music as spectral infrastructure", BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands, 13 - 14 November 2021.

Rogoff, Irit; Moreno, Louis; Mallona, Massomilliano; Harney, Stefano and Sternfeld, Nora. 2016. Infrastructure. In: "Infrastructure", Bergen Assembly, Norway, 1 September - 1 October 2016.

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