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What relationships obtain between regimes of securitization and the multifarious expressions of aesthetic form, and how do these relationships impinge upon the abrasions that constitute the social? Touching upon questions of affect and desire, in this talk, Adam John Waterman explores connections between security formations that traverse the United States and the Middle East through attention to the manifestation and representation of transglobal modular spaces: the high rise, the camp, the railroad, the shipping container. He looks to the history of the Phelps Dodge corporation as a means to approach questions related to geophysicality of extractive industry, the racialization of the division of labor, and the erotic gamesmanship of capitalist excess. Exploring the legacies of copper extraction in the US Southwest, he hopes to foreground an understanding of security in which the slow violence of compulsive self-regard is understood as coeval with both extraordinary and aggressive modes of state violence. He proposes that a purposeful engagement with the question of desire, its dynamics, and its modulation, might serve as a tactic within broader struggles to understand infrastructures of securitization, capital, and empire.
Webinar registration link:https://ucdavis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i3_JrmR5Rwi3U-zmuExg0Q
Bio: For the last fifteen years Adam John Waterman has been living in Lebanon and Algeria, where he was a professor of English and American Studies at the American University of Beirut and a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the Universite d’Alger 2. He now finds himself back in the United States. His research explores relationships between settler colonialism, capital, sexuality, and desire. His book, The Corpse in the Kitchen: Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War, was published by Fordham University Press in 2021. At present, he is collaborating with the artist Tef Poe on a manuscript entitled Rebel to America, due out from Norton in the fall of 2023. He is completing a book called Digest All The Plague Years, which explores everyday life in Lebanon from the revolution of October 2019 to the explosions of August 2020 through a consideration of the uneven distribution of physical and mental illness, environmental toxicity, food scarcity, and psychosis.
Webinar registration link:https://ucdavis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i3_JrmR5Rwi3U-zmuExg0Q
Bio: For the last fifteen years Adam John Waterman has been living in Lebanon and Algeria, where he was a professor of English and American Studies at the American University of Beirut and a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the Universite d’Alger 2. He now finds himself back in the United States. His research explores relationships between settler colonialism, capital, sexuality, and desire. His book, The Corpse in the Kitchen: Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War, was published by Fordham University Press in 2021. At present, he is collaborating with the artist Tef Poe on a manuscript entitled Rebel to America, due out from Norton in the fall of 2023. He is completing a book called Digest All The Plague Years, which explores everyday life in Lebanon from the revolution of October 2019 to the explosions of August 2020 through a consideration of the uneven distribution of physical and mental illness, environmental toxicity, food scarcity, and psychosis.
For more information please contact kndabdoub@ucdavis.edu
Event sponsored by Cultural Studies Graduate Group and the Critical Militarization, Policy and Security Studies research cluster
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