Swiping Right(-wing): Representation and the Populist Imagination, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, 30.10.2019, Cruciform Lecture Theatre. We live in times of chaotic uncertainty: anxiety, economic precarity and political volatility are the order of the day. It is commonplace to say that during uncertain times we crave certainty, we seek stable narratives and images of security. Yet today our individual and collective responses to radical uncertainty endorse rather than fight the instability that it induces... Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou is a Lecturer in Social Theory at University College London, and head of the UCL Sociology & Social Theory Research Group. He is a Senior Editor at the New School’s Public Seminar, where he is leading the research seminar ‘Imaginal Politics’, with Chiara Bottici and Judith Butler. Aris' current book project is titled ‘Speculative Communities: Re-imagining Society and Polity through Finance’.

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Host, Céline Condorelli 23.10.19, Cruciform Lecture Theatre. Céline Condorelli (CH, IT, UK) is a London and Lisbon-based artist, and was one of the founding directors of Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK. She is the author and editor of Support Structures published by Sternberg Press (2009). Condorelli combines a number of approaches from developing structures for ‘supporting’ (the work of others, forms of political imaginary, existing and fictional realities) to broader enquiries into forms of commonality and discursive sites.

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