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04 Emergency and Emergence

Emergency and Emergence (April 2022 - December 2023) unearths transdisciplinary, sensorial and speculative practices of radical sensemaking and wayfinding via questions of repair, pedagogy, remediation and mutation. Edited by Canan Batur. https://doi.org/10.31411/TCJ.04
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03 Sonic Continuum

Sonic Continuum (Mar 2020 – Nov 2021) traces practices of world-making through sound, both as a force that constitutes the world and a medium for producing knowledge about it. https://doi.org/10.31411/TCJ.03

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Acousmatic Paranoia

Arrested Time

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02 Critical Pedagogies

Critical Pedagogies (June 2019 – July 2020) investigates the capacities of education to rehearse new forums for critical thinking beyond the pedagogical imperative. https://doi.org/10.31411/TCJ.02
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01 On Translations

On Translations (February 2018 - March 2020) explores the cultural and political contradictions that arise in processes of translation - in language and beyond. These questions derive from an understanding that translation encompasses processes of erasure in colonial language and epistemologies. At the same time, it offers a liminal space marked by mistranslation, confusion, and hesitance. On Translations aims to explore the potential capacities of translation to be a 'site of inhabitation' rather than a transitional space between the original and the translated text. https://doi.org/10.31411/TCJ.01
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Emergency and Emergence

Week Three

Stephanie Limb

The poem’s speaker recounts her baby’s first illness at week three, questioning Adam Smith’s conceptualisation of sympathy and care, and exploring the porous boundary between mother and infant.

wall-nut

Francis Whorrall-Campbell

This study of a walnut shell was written during a workshop with Seán Hewitt and is dedicated to a dear friend, C. M.

Three Poems on Care During the Time of COVID

Craig Santos Perez

These poems, written during the COVID-19 pandemic, explore themes of contagion, care, mutual aid and grief.

The Gerund Mountain and the Stamped Paper Cave

Claudia Pagès Rabal

Two children bump into my legs, I look down and see they’re holding plastic guns, they point at each other and simulate they are shooting. Clicking their tongues against their teeth, they make “bang bang” and machine guns noises. The adult accompanying them smiles at me and says ai, quin parell de bandolers! with a…

Burning House / Burning Horse: The fire it always is

Ella Finer

The fire it always is 18.07.2022 London, forecast 40C A return to Burning House / Burning Horse. *** *** The particulate matter of time has followed the weather, it’s been sleeping on the wing. And then in an instant this fine mist magnetises – a cymatic gathering in which a pattern, an image appears. This…

Terra Perdita: Mapping Lost Landscapes

Shannon Mattern

In this essay, anthropologist and writer Shannon Mattern maps out disappearing landscapes, and fictional and fabricated terrains to offer a critique of atlases of abundance and loss.

Song for a Scar

Samuel Rogers

This poem marks a return to the lyric voice as a means by which to process emotional experience. As an awe-struck bystander to pregnancy and childbirth, the author offers all that he can: a deepened sense of care, of which the poem forms a part.

Listening Sessions: Seeing Through Flames

Edward George Momin Swaitat David Toop Tim Lawrence

Seeing Through Flames is a series of auditory assemblages that turn listening into a collective channel of exchange. These sessions open out the ideas and themes of our research strand, Emergency & Emergence, and survey different possibilities of forming solidarity through sound and music. By looking at politics of spiritual transformation and collective imagination, these study-as-listening sessions explore the potential for the poetic and vibrational undoing of the knowledge that underpins concepts of the dominant modes of being, as well as the oppression those modes create to make ourselves and our planet anew.

Seeing Man

Jay Gao

‘Seeing Man’ is a long narrative poem set in the Siwa Oasis, Egypt. Borrowing its title from Mary Louise Pratt’s term ‘seeing man’ to describe the European male subject whose imperial eyes ‘passively look out and possess’, this poem explores themes of travel, Orientalism, ecotourism, hospitality, and queer care.

Postnatural Supernatural

Helena Hunter

Postnatural Supernatural comprises three short films that consider tree spirit beliefs within rural communities of the Philippines and how these intersect with colonisation, deforestation and bird decline. Each film blends narration, poetry and sound with paper-based artworks, photographic collage and performance.

On Mothering the Unnamed: Ecologies of Care and National Indifference in Simone Weil and Hans/Jean Arp

Delphine Grass

This essay by Delphine Grass reflects on the politics of motherhood, attention and national indifference in the context of migration and climate change through the lens of Simone Weil, Hans/Jean Arp and children’s care games.

Nuestro Juramento

Colectivo Ayllu

In this chapter ‘Hemos escrito con sangre la historia de Colón’ from the film ‘Nuestro Juramento’ (2022), Colectivo Ayllu takes us on a journey from the seashore to various monuments through which they draw upon long memories of colonial pain and contemporary realities of violence. The film invites us to go through spaces of pain…

Kathryn Yusoff: Rethinking Geologic Subjectivity in Broken Earths

Kathryn Yusoff Andrew Goffey

As part of Caves, Dwellings & Vibration, Kathryn Yusoff delivered the keynote presentation Rethinking Geologic Subjectivity in Broken Earths moderated by University of Nottingham’s Director of the Centre for Critical Theory Andrew Goffey. Yusoff’s research examines how inhuman and nonorganic materialities have consequences for how we understand issues of environmental change, race and subjectivity.

Foreword: On Care

Sarah Jackson Linda Kemp

‘What is care?’ asks María Puig de la Bellacasa: ‘Is it an affection? A moral obligation? Work? A burden? A joy? Something we can learn or practice? Something we just do?’ Recent social, political and environmental crises have brought new attention to these questions, and to the ways that we perceive and experience forms…

Department of Absorption

Asad Raza

In Department of Absorption, artist Asad Raza presents his proposal to utilize waste products of the landscape to remediate the land in Nottingham.

Critical Raw Materials Podcast Series by FRAUD

FRAUD (Audrey Samson and Francisco Gallardo) Adekeye Adebajo Stefan Jonsson Peo Hansen Ndongo Samba Sylla Liam Campling Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare Nii Ayitey Sackey Solomon Sampa Jennifer Telesca Nishat Awan

The podcast series, developed in conversation with academics, economists, lawyers, activists and journalists, explores how risk associated with the supply of Critical Raw Materials is unevenly shaping international relations while perpetuating colonial legacies in Europe’s periphery and the Global South. The discussions aim to look beyond these extractive practices to the possibility of thinking and doing otherwise.

Conspiration: On Poetry and Breathing

Mae Losasso

This essay explores the relationship between poetry and breath in response to our contemporary crisis of breathlessness.

But also flesh and salt

Anna Johnson

Anna Johnson’s life writing offers an insight into the complexity and ambivalence of early motherhood. Her fragmented poetic-prose immerses the reader into the affective registers of care, giving space to experiences so often excluded from narratives of motherhood.

A Soft Spot

Maria Gil Ulldemolins

This pseudo-pantoum’s sections degrade as the text evolves, mimicking tissue decay. The text references one of Heidi Bucher’s latex artworks, braiding it with the considerations of care brought by a loved one’s sudden, open-ended medical diagnosis.

Metastases

Melissa Jacques

‘Metastases’ is a personal essay about the death of a sibling in the midst of a global pandemic. Through a mix of memory and theoretical meditation, it explores the distance at the heart of shared experience and the transformative potential of grief.

Visualising the Ends of Growth: Insurgent Universality, Solidarity and Worlds-to-Come

TJ Demos Angela YT Chan

In this online presentation, art historian and cultural critic, TJ Demos speculates on what comes after growth through looking into practices of Indigenous and Afrofuturism. This keynote concluded After Growth: A Symposium on Post-Capitalist Imaginaries at Nottingham Contemporary, 19-20 March 22.