This animated map made by Max Galka shows passenger air traffic over a year. Every small dot stands for around two thousand people. We are all probably familiar with these visualizations showing the marvel of global mobility at scale. I … Continue reading “Airport as a Bordering Process”
Tag: migration
Reconfiguring Representation: Rebecca M. Schreiber’s The Undocumented Everyday
Christian RossipalIn the face of structural dispossession and intensified border regimes, what does it mean to demand or to defy “more visibility” and “better representation” as an undocumented migrant? This is a central question in Rebecca M. Schreiber’s recently published The … Continue reading “Reconfiguring Representation: Rebecca M. Schreiber’s The Undocumented Everyday“
Dead Refugees and Immortal Nations, Sights and Sites of Global Asia
Jennifer M. Gully and Lynn Mie ItagakiWhat would it mean to examine the current European migration crisis from a Global Asia framework? This question only seems odd when adopting the perspective of European state actors rather than those of the Syrian refugees who are the largest … Continue reading “Dead Refugees and Immortal Nations, Sights and Sites of Global Asia”
Propositions for a Decolonial Aesthetics and "Five Decolonial Days in Kassel" (Documenta 13 AND AND AND)
pedro laschThree years ago, in the summer of 2010 I began a series of projects for Documenta 13 as part of the artists’ initiative called AND AND AND. On the one hand, these contributions focused on my Phantom Limbs and Twin … Continue reading “Propositions for a Decolonial Aesthetics and "Five Decolonial Days in Kassel" (Documenta 13 AND AND AND)”
A Debt Remembered
van truong“Without memory, there is no debt. Put another way: without story, there is no debt.”[1]Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (Toronto, ON: House of Anansi Press, 2008) p. 2. That’s how Margaret Atwood put … Continue reading “A Debt Remembered”