Politics contra
crisis
This introductory studio session of the series is dedicated to mapping the coordinates of our contemporary political moment, and will introduce the dimensions of political conversation to ensue in the coming sessions. Etched against the insurgent possibilities of movement-campaign translations signified by the Sanders campaign, the crisis of public and private life and possibility inherent in the global pandemic, and the post-democratic gestures toward new formations of fascist institutions obtaining across the world, this session will set out some terms for our conversation, also laying out the stakes of the differential turns to politics and to crises as ways of mapping the world.