Underworlds explores unconventional sites and struggles of global dis/ordering. Guided by leading theorists and critics, we explore how familiar locations and legacies of power are cabined, crossed, and cut apart by alternative arteries, lineages, and languages of ordering and world-making - from oceanic archives to landscapes of plasticity and pollution, from the circulation of debt to the aesthetics of breathing. Across these sites, we explores new modes of resistance and refusal. Convened by Marie Petersmann (LSE) and Dimitri Van Den Meerssche (QMUL). Sound / art by Tobias & Dominique Koch.
Breath as Site and Struggle of Global Dis/Ordering
Rather than concentrating only on how the right to breathe is formally recognised (or not) in international law, this event foregrounds the patterns of dis/ordering that are embedded in infrastructures of toxicity, and the unevenly allocated...
Published 05/01/24
Oil / Coal as Sites and Struggles of Global Dis/Ordering
Rather than concentrating only on how the commodities of oil and coal are regulated as objects of international law, this episode foregrounds patterns and imaginaries of global dis/ordering that these materials generate. It thereby traces...
Published 04/17/24