I first met Lara Montesinos-Coleman at a workshop in 2016. I recall a discussion on Povinelli’s Economies of Abandonment with respect to everyday resistance and it being necessarily cruddy and mundane. We soon got to talking about our personal lives, and I...
https://open.spotify.com/track/4cXkuDcAPqZ9WJD6GAM2tJ?si=e4e28c7bfabc47a4 Nanak naam, chardi kala, tere bane sarbat da bhala. I say these words by way of normalising a Sikh consciousness and vocabulary. The words appear at the end the Ardas, one of...
It was a sunny afternoon in early March. We were a small group of about twelve and the event was a teach-in I was leading on the topic ‘Is it Useless to Revolt? The Strike as Counter-Conduct’ (part of a month of Sussex Strike events).[1] We quickly agreed that ‘is it...
The title of Foucault’s lecture series of 1977-78 Security, Territory, Population was poorly chosen; the series should, as he acknowledges, have been called ‘Governmentality’, since the concern of these lectures is with the overarching ‘problem of government’ – that...