#TechofPower: Geopolitics
Borderlines announces the launch of a new collaborative project with the Technologies of Power project and the joint publication of a number of short video lectures from the virtual conference. The second lecture series titled ‘Geopolitics’ features three talks by Darryl Li, John Muthyala, and Samar al-Balushi.
This week’s Technologies of Power: Tracing Empire at Home and Abroad lecture series features a discussion around the theme of Geopolitics. It explores how the Global War on Terror from three different perspectives, each raising different questions that tackle the racialization and outsourcing of overseas violence, the deployment of military technologies such as drones on the home front for policing and the politics of representation of the Global War on Terror.
From imperial projects that devastated entire regions in South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa to the domestic expansion of explicit white supremacy, surveillance, and policing, US technologies of power have generated a multidirectional and dialectical relationship between foreign wars and domestic issues.
Funded by the Humanities War & Peace Initiative Grant at Columbia University, Technologies of Power will encourage intersectional conversations on race, empire, technologies, and policing that break the boundaries between ‘foreign’ and ‘domestic,’ ‘abroad’ and ‘home,’ ‘technology’ and ‘power.’
7 conversations. 21 scholars, writers, and activists.
GEOPOLITICS
Samar Al-Balushi discusses the racialization of the US War on Terror in Africa and the use of African proxies to fight US wars.
John Muthayla discusses drone surveillance in the US.
Darryl Li on seizing the conditions of visibility during the Global War on Terror.
Full transcript of the webinar with the Q&A portion of the talk.
Prepared with the editorial assistance of Nishat Akhtar.