Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, James Auger
Security in Uncertainty
Forum Stadtpark – Center for Security
Security revisited
About Speculative Objects and Communities ...
Speculating denotes outlining hypothetical development scenarios and constructing a horizon of possible actions, without denying the essential contingency of the future. However, in a world characterized by fundamental inequalities, socially relevant speculation about the future—for instance, in the form of speculative finance—is an activity reserved exclusively for a privileged minority of the wealthy and educated. Is it possible to turn speculation against its current function of reproducing social asymmetries and make it into a collective instrument for navigating an increasingly uncertain future?
The fourth event in the discourse series Security Revisited: Infrastructures for Caring Communities addresses the concept and practice of speculation and its relation to shared (in)security.
Hybrid event in physical space with online participation of invited speakers
Lectures in English
The insecurity currently being experienced calls for new interpretations that differ from the conservative discourse on security as well as from a defensive, a priori rejection of the very notion of security on the part of contemporary left. This ubiquitous sense of insecurity, which has been brought about by precarious living conditions and grim prospects for the future, shall be embedded in the context of shared care and transnational solidarity. In the framework of the lecture series Security Revisited, the Section for Architecture and the Section for Social Politics at the Forum Stadtpark have invited critical and emancipatory positions to discuss infrastructures of (in)security and outline possibilities for a new politics of care.
Curated by Sara T. Huber and Ana Jeinić
