#TechofPower: Opacity

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 ‘ENCLOSURES’ FEATURES THREE TALKS BY RONAK KAPADIA, NADA SHABOUT & SIMONE BROWNE.

This week’s Technologies of Power: Tracing Empire at Home and Abroad lecture series features a discussion around the theme of Opacity.

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. 

Ronak Kapadia | On the afterlives of black sites

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Nada Shabout | Arts of War

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Simone Browne | Notes on Naz & Maalik and Rethinking Aesthetics

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Full live event

Follow the @techofpower project on twitter and stay tuned for the next talk.

Prepared with the editorial assistance of Nishat Akhtar.