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The Political Kitchen ______________________________________ The Political Kitchen is a coming together of artists, thinkers, and activists to form one group among a number who have been assembling weekly over these many months of intermittent “lockdown”, “self-isolation”, and “social distancing” to try and build collectively a vocabulary and analysis of this time, of this conjuncture, of the pre-existing conditions, and the struggles in our midst. What time are we in? What is this time of the virus and which other times or relations to time does it open onto? In its capacity to disrupt and reorganize the uses and experiences of everyday life, the virus has opened up a wider set of questions around time - toward not only the time of the catastrophe, disaster, or apocalypse, but also what could be recovered time, reappropriated time, other uses of time. And more than that, this disruption of the 'normal' procedures and conducts of life has opened up to histories ... ideas of progress, of conditions marked by coloniality, modernity, wars, insurgencies, counter-insurgencies, relations, abstractions, contagions, beings, life forms, infrastructures, destructions, enclosures, evictions, precarities, institutions of knowledge, subjugations, obfuscations, mutilations of care, genocides, denialisms, oblivions, survivals, degradations of the common premises of life, threats to life, cuts through life and difference ... prompting further questions. Which are the conditions that have rendered certain bodies disposable, expendable, sacrificable, vulnerable both historically and more violently today? What are we capable to do or undo to abolish or strike against those conditions? And what are we striking for in our movements of abolition, of feminism, of queering, commoning, communizing, and decolonizing? Prompted by the virus, this Polyphonic Political Kitchen prepares a situation for thinking and voicing together - proposing to map and share time-sensitive questions which the virus opens, complicates, and pushes to the fore: Liz Mason-Deese, Sherry Millner, Ernie Larsen, CK Raju, Rolando Vasquez, Hardip Mann, Sarah Lewison, Ann Messner, Kirsten Forkert, Peter Conlin, MPA, Claire Fontaine, Nick Mirzoeff, Jesal Kapadia, Jaspal Singh, Berno Odo Polzer, Suzanne Goldenberg, Jim Costanzo, Joscelyn Jurich, Christoph Keller, Avi Varma, Pia Lindman, Caspar Stracke, Pedro Lasch, Jaroslav Andel, Alan Smart, Alessandra Pomarico, Lucy Sternbach, Sanoja Bhaumik, Giulia Gabrielli, Ayesha Hameed, Reem Shadid, Mattia Pellegrini, Vahram Aghasyan, Emilio Fantin, Nazan Ustundag, Ayreen Anastas, Sabu Kohso, Rene Gabri, Begonia Santa-Cecilia, Luis Moreno-Caballud, Vahram Aghasyan, Harout Simonian, Anjalika Sagar, |