Radical Imaginations: Decolonizing Art Institutions Through Practical Actions in the post-COVID Landscape
The museum is in crisis. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and social uprising centered around Black Lives Matter, conversations around art institutions have jumped to the forefront of calls for decolonization. Yet one major question remains: What will a decolonized museum look like, especially now? Since beginning this study in the summer of…
Chile’s constitutional battle: between neoliberal fascism and buen vivir
October 2019 marked a watershed in Chile´s recent history, as millions took the streets in almost four weeks, defying a military curfew and increasing police brutality. Synchronized with processes of social upheaval taking place in other latitudes from Hong Kong and Ecuador to the very core of the North Atlantic zone, the Chilean revolt could…
Remaking the Metropole
Remaking the Metropole Postcolonial scholarship has long held out the promise of helping us understand contemporary politics in both the metropole and the colony better. Fanon and Cesaire linked their concerns about colonialism’s racialization to the dehumanizing of not just the colonized but also the colonizer. Cesaire’s passionate denunciation of the Hitler that he claimed…
One Good Thing About Music
Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock episode Steve McQueen’s Small Axe has been widely acclaimed by both critics and viewers. The five-part film series takes its name from an African proverb popularised by a Bob Marley and the Wailers song: “If you are the big tree, we are the small axe”. The film series tells the stories…
Reversing the pain: a new dawn for Bolivia
What happened in Bolivia during the last elections has been a fascinating social and political process worth sharing with you, wherever you are. The Movement for Socialism (MAS) and the international left triumphantly interpret their victory as the electoral ratification of their project. This reading constitutes an almost neurotic act of self-delusion, equal to that…
Migration, Technologies & Postcolonial Genealogies
Seminar series at the Centre Postcolonial Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London (Spring 2021) This seminar series centres on migration and bordering technologies, drawing attention to the postcolonial genealogies of the current governmentality assemblages. It aims at fostering a debate about the mutual entanglements between the racialisation of “migrants” and the political technologies used for governing…
