Joint International Workshop: “Global Infrastructures: Aesthetic Power and Affective Networks in the (Post-)colonial Present”
On 28 November, Joint International Workshop has taken place in Lisbon, organized by the Institute of Contemporary History of Lisbon and the University of Bologna, in collaboration with COLABOR, INCA, IN2PAST, and the University of Évora.
Various INCA members have participated in the event titled “Global Infrastructures: Aesthetic Power and Affective Networks in the (Post)Colonial Present.” Mattia Frapporti and Maurilio Pirone from Unibo, Franco Tomassoni from CoLABOR and Niccolò Cuppini from SUPSI have been involved as chairs and discussants during the four thematic seminars that have been held throughout the event’s program:
- Imperial Infrastructures: Aesthetic Power and Resistance
- Affective Infrastructures in the (post)colonial city
- (Hyper)Modern Affects: Capital and the Aesthetics of Industrial Infrastructures
- Building Infrastructural Futures: Beyond Platform Capitalism?
The workshop has focused on infrastructures as semiotic and aesthetic vehicles. Additionally, it has promoted a collective investigation of the aesthetic and affective dimension of global infrastructures, emphasizing how it interacts with colonial projects, capitalist ventures, and cultural superstructures.
