Author Archives: Thayer Hastings

Socializing Toxic Clouds

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Socializing Toxic Clouds: A Conversation with Samaneh Moafi, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Robert Trafford & Anna Feigenbaum

Wed. May 5th, 2-4pm
This event will take place on Zoom. Please register below. To request ASL interpretation or CART please email abesher@gc.cuny.edu.

Image: screen shot from Tear Gas in Plaza de la Dignidad, a video investigation by Forensic Architecture (2020). A panoramic aerial view of a central roundabout connecting main avenues in downtown Santiago de Chile. There are hundreds of protesters visible, several police tanks, and clouds of tear gas. Nine purple squares superimposed on the image frame the sources of the gas. The roundabout is surrounded by white buildings on the right side, and by a park with trees on the left side; behind the trees there is a river. The light of the sun comes from the left side of the frame. Below the image of the roundabout, a black timeline with purple lines marks 520 incidents—the deployment of tear gas canisters.

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Revisiting the Riot Discussion and Launch

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Revisiting the Riot Discussion and Launch

The Center for Place, Culture and Politics via zoom

Thursday, April 29, 7pm EST

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Earlier this year, the journal Theory in Action released a special issue entitled Revisiting the Riot: 10th Anniversary of AK Thompson’s Black Bloc, White Riot, (Vol. 14, No. 1). Join contributors Robert F. Carley, Benjamin S. Case, Clare O’Connor,  Heath Schultz, and Claryn Spies as they share their analyses and debate the implications of Thompson’s work for our new era of global uprisings.

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