Quinn Slobodian, Bahar Noorizadeh & The Otolith Collective in conversation

The Otolith Collective, in collaboration with FACT, Liverpool, presents Bahar Noorizadeh, Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar in conversation with Canadian historian and specialist in modern German and international history Quinn Slobodian, to discuss the historical intersections of neoliberal thought and global history. This conversation will be followed by a Q and A. The event is free but booking is essential.

Quinn Slobodian is professor of international history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.

His books, which have been translated into ten languages, include, most recently, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy. Forthcoming is Hayek’s Bastards:The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right.

He has been an associate fellow at Chatham House and held residential fellowships at Harvard and FU Berlin. He co-directs the History and Political Economy Project and is on the board of editors of the American Historical Review.

Bahar Noorizadeh is an artist, theorist, writer and filmmaker based in London. Her work explores the histories of neoliberalism, speculation, finance, fiction, credit, value, the weird and the unknown. The Otolith Collective (Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar) is a long-standing artist-led organisation supporting intergenerational art practice, research-led projects and process-based forms of development. It creates environments that nourish discourse and discussion, co-commission art practices and curate exhibitions and programmes with a wide range of collaborators, organisations and institutions here and elsewhere.

This is part three of a series of conversations where Bahar is joined by theorist, artist and filmmaker Kodwo Eshun and artist Anjalika Sagar of The Otolith Collective, alongside invited philosophers, historians and sociologists.

For the first talk of the series, Bahar, Kodwo and Anjalika were joined by writer and philosopher Samo Tomšič to discuss the social and psychological impacts of contemporary capitalism. In the second talk, on Friday 11 April, they will be joined by Australian sociologist and political theorist Melinda Cooper to discuss biopolitics in relation to new conservative philosophies of power.

This event marks the start of the soon to be announced Otolith Library Programme at 93 Mortimer Street, London.

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