Workshop & Lecture at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile

Invited by Alfredo Joignant of the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales e Historia at Universidad Diego Portales to give a public lecture on Speculative Communities, followed by a research workshop on my work with the participation of early career researchers from Chilean Universities responding to the talk. August 2024.

The Uncertain Condition: book talk at the Transmediale Festival Berlin

In discussion with Bahar Noorizadeh and David Capene, exploring strategies that look to counter perceptions of political impossibility, and asking how speculation can open claims for the transformation of social, political, and intimate lives. February 2023.

Amsterdam book panel on Speculative Communities

A special Author-meet-Critics event on my book, with Linsey McGoey (University of Essex), Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra (University of California, San Diego), Leon Wansleben (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies). Moderated by Daniel Maman (Ben-Gurion University). Part of SASE 2022 Annual Conference livestream event at the University of Amsterdam. July 2022.

US Launch of Speculative Communities at the Strand Bookstore

A roundtable discussion on my new book Speculative Communities, co-hosted by the Strand Bookstore in New York City and the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School. With Arjun Appadurai, Melinda Cooper and Jamieson Webster, moderated by Julia Ott. January 2022.

UK Launch of Speculative Communities at the LRB Bookshop

Panel discussion on Speculative Communities hosted by the LRB Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London.

With Grace Blakeley, James Bridle and Will Davies. January 2022.

A window into chaos? Covid-19 and the new temporal order of capitalism

How do our late capitalist societies imagine their future under conditions of chaotic uncertainty? What does the Covid-19 crisis reveal about our fractured experiences of time in an already precarious and anxious present? Panel discussion with Jens Beckert, Arjun Appadurai, Rahel Jaeggi, and Linsey McGoey. UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, January 2021.

Swiping Right(-wing): Representation and the Populist Imagination 

In this Slade Contemporary Art Lecture I discuss the social rituals of image sharing media, mobile dating apps and digital astrology, and I consider the political imagination enabled by these transient modes of representation. UCL Slade School of Fine Art, Slade Contemporary Art Public Lectures, 30 October 2019.

New Fascism, Mass Psychology & Financialization

What do the worlds of global finance and nationalist populism have in common? How can we understand the rise of today’s ‘new fascisms’ through the prism of financialization? Workshop with Judith Butler, Nancy Fraser, Saskia Sassen, Eli Zaretsky and others. New School for Social Research, February 2019.

Reclaiming Utopia: Challenging the Financial Imagination

Provocative reflections from theorists, activists and artists, on the possibilities of reclaiming radical utopias as a response to an increasingly dominant ‘financial imagination’. With Chiara Bottici, Max Haiven, and Cassie Thornton. King’s College London, 25 November 2016.