Regimes of the Visual

SOCIAL REPRODUCTION IN THE PLATFORM CITY: WHEN IS IT LOVE, WHEN IS IT WORK?

In this session, we will critically consider the relationship between capital, sex, sexuality and emotion. How and why are subjectivities bought, sold and produced in a world shaped by platform capitalism? Delving into theories of Social Reproduction and Marxist-Feminist Studies, we will consider the long-standing history of capital’s relation with gender, sexuality and emotion, and situate this history to better understand the systems of unpaid labour necessary to produce life (as we know it) in the platform city. We will consider, through open discussion and experimental writing exercises, why and how the boundaries between life, work, love and labour, are tactically enmeshed to reproduce lives in cities increasingly shaped by technology-capital. Importantly, we will collectively brainstorm what we can do to intervene, and to challenge these modes of extraction.

SEX AND THE CITY: AN INTRODUCTION TO QUEER GEOGRAPHIES

This informal, optional session will consider the relationship between sex, gender, space and the city. Engaging in experimental map-making and an open-conversation about queer geographies, we will collectively consider how our orientations of the world are dictated by hetero-normativity and patriarchy, and how we can contest this through queer-ed approaches to spatial understanding.

SWIPING CITIES: DATING APPS, URBANISM, AND THE PRODUCTION OF SEXUALITY IN DIGITALLY-MEDIATED ARCHI-SCAPES.

How are dating apps such as Tinder, Grindr, and Bumble changing the way people relate to one another in contemporary cities? How are they producing contemporary sexual-subjectivities, and how is the architecture of cities changing as a result? What might this say about the relationship between sex, sexuality, technology, urbanism and capital? This session will go right to the heart of our contemporary moment, and consider through open discussion, the dichotomies, dilemmas, and potentialities of what Andres Jaque calls a ‘Grindr Urbanism… An enacted archi-urbanism of spatial layering.’

Regimes of the Visual
Carmen Lael Hines, MA

1st session: Monday, 22 November 2021, 17:00-19:00
2nd session: Mittwoch, 01December 2021, 17:00-19:00
3rd session: Montag, 13 December 2021, 17:00-19:00

Location: online via ZOOM

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