Video: Deborah Cowen, 'Crisis in Motion’

Theory in Crisis Seminar

Held on January 29, 2021, by University of London Institute in Paris (part of the Research Seminar Series: Theory in Crisis).

In this session, Deborah Cowen gives a talk entitled ‘Crisis in Motion’:

As monuments to colonial and racial capitalist violence come crashing down around the world, calls build for deeper engagement not only with the symbols of imperialism, but with their defining socio-technical systems. Infrastructures are systems assembled to sustain and expand reproduction, but to whom and to what do they give life? This talk tracks the infrastructures of broken worlds. It looks at a set of entangled struggles over the imperial logistics of circulation and containment, locates crisis in motion, and considers forms of futurity and queer collectivity anchored in infrastructure’s refusal, reconfiguration, and repair.