Seminar: Borders, (im)mobilities and databases

Join this seminar, which combines scientific and artistic regimes of engagement. The seminar explores how imaginaries of the present and future of digital borders, with their promises of order, seamless governance and frictionless flows of bodily data, are constructed, as well as how the lived reality of administrative and spatial tactics, policies and technologies of borders

We are excited to invite you to an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together critical academic scholarship and artistic practices to interrogate the complex reality of the contemporary European border control regime, and its technologies.

Combining scientific and artistic regimes of engagement, the seminar explores how imaginaries of the present and future of digital borders, with their promises of order, seamless governance and frictionless flows of bodily data, are constructed, as well as how the lived reality of administrative, and spatial tactics, policies and technologies of borders

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Martina Tazzioli, Associate Professor in Geography at the University of Bologna, will show how European border regimes deploy “technologies of suffocation” that dismantle migrants’ life-support infrastructures, choking not only their movements but also their capacity for social reproduction and future aspirations.
Paul Trauttmansdorff, STS researcher and postdoc fellow at the Technical Un Read more