No Future: Full Throttle Death Drive and Coronacapitalism in The Netherlands
“Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavouring, as far as …
sonsbeek20->24 home office story
sonsbeek20->24, the international contemporary art exhibitionin arnhem, the netherlands invited me to participate through a sound contribution for the online program. From the sonsbeek20->24 website: …
The temperature at the border – System of Systems
During the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic, all symposia, lectures and events were moved online. This was my video contribution to the online program …
“Priority passengers” and other necropolitical human taxonomies
Earlier this week I wrote about two incidents of violence on planes . While these incidents differed drastically in the reasons behind them, both were …
Airborne violence: Passengers stop deportation of a Nigerian man from The Netherlands
Yesterday a man was violently removed from a United Airlines flight in the US. The video is deeply unsettling to watch. The man is dehumanized …
Nationalism as simulacrum
For context some of my previous writing on right wing appeal to sentimentality: The nostalgic wound and the appeal of “the good old days” To …
The possibilities of radical consent
The possibilities of radical consent This is a slightly edited version of a talk I gave last summer at Progress Bar in Amsterdam. It’s Saturday night, …
The magnanimous middle ground and maintaining colonial order
The magnanimous middle ground and maintaining colonial order Mainstream media is currently riding high on the trend of equating anti fascism to neo nazism. There is …
Big Data and the ethics of community surveillance
Big Data and the ethics of community surveillance In the previous essay of this ongoing series about Big Data, I discussed how the emotional states …
When the personal is necropolitical: on Inauguration Day and alliances of hate
When the personal is necropolitical: on Inauguration Day and alliances of hate Today marks what I believe will be remembered as a new era. We tend …