#TechofPower: Intimacy
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 first lecture series titled ‘Intimacy’ features three talks by Nick Estes, Moazzam Begg, Caren Kaplan.
Through the work of scholars, writers and activists, Technologies of Power: Tracing Empire at Home and Abroad explores how technologies of power and empire have shaped multiple terrains domestically and transnationally. The wars ‘over there’ have a lot to tell us about struggles ‘over here’— and vice versa.
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.
Intimacy
The first talk by Nick Estes discusses counterinsurgency and its history.
The second video by Moazzam Begg discusses his experience as a prisoner at Guantanamo bay.
The third talk discusses everyday militarism in our lives.
The Q&A portion of the talk
Follow the @techofpower project on twitter and stay tuned for the next talk on 09/24. To attend the online webinar RSVP here.
Prepared with the editorial assistance of Nishat Akhtar.