Why Is Everyone Talking About Biopolitics?
This article interrogates Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, the meddling of politics into the biological lives of citizens, and its resurgence during the corona pandemic. She argues that biopower has evolved and has been supplemented by the digital and spread along the channels of capital, rendering the phenomenon more widespread than its conceptual revival in times…
Remixing as Reincarnation Contagious trans*birthing in the work of boychild
Chloe Turner examines how remixing, in a 2013 festival performance by the artist and activist boychild, acts as an agitative, queer design practice for building radical, new collective trans futures.
Quintessentially Queer (series) Quintessentially Queer
Queerness for me, does not limit itself to sexual preference in regards to gender. Queerness for me is more so about understanding the political substantiality of your own sexual identity and the power plays, meanings and structures that can be perpetuated with its expression. Besides writing, I am a performer and curator, thus I try…
Art and Activism (series) Out of the Blue
ART AND ACTIVISM In this series, students from the Graduate School of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) explore the complex overlaps and conversations between art and activism. They seek to illustrate how artistic practices often speak to the urgency of protest and activism, and how activism intertwines with the demands of art. In…
Europe’s Paradoxical Relationship to Human Rights Laid Bare at Greece’s Border
Lynn Gommes discusses the tensions between the discourse of Europe as the ideal of democracy and the inhumane actions taking place at their borders.
Art and Activism (series) The Disappearing Playgrounds of Amsterdam
ART AND ACTIVISM In this series, students from the Graduate School of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) explore the complex overlaps and conversations between art and activism. They seek to illustrate how artistic practices often speak to the urgency of protest and activism, and how activism intertwines with the demands of art. In…
Art and Activism (series) Walking in Art
ART AND ACTIVISM In this series, students from the Graduate School of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) explore the complex overlaps and conversations between art and activism. They seek to illustrate how artistic practices often speak to the urgency of protest and activism, and how activism intertwines with the demands of art. In…
Art and Activism (series) Activism and Desire: The Affect in and Around Protests
ART AND ACTIVISM In this series, students from the Graduate School of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) explore the complex overlaps and conversations between art and activism. They seek to illustrate how artistic practices often speak to the urgency of protest and activism, and how activism intertwines with the demands of art. In…
Messy Entanglements Review: "Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media" by Sharon Mattern
Zeno Siemens reviews Shannon Mattern’s “Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media.”
The Queue
Although it is hard to say these days, I have an inkling that it is nearly morning. As if to prove my point, I see others around me rubbing their eyes, seemingly waking up as well. To relax my hunched shoulders, I lean with my body over my cart and yawn extravagantly, whilst making sure…