We discuss how (neo)colonial ideology, biometric control, surveillance technologies, and global inequality all intersect at the border.
Borders are everywhere. They are taken-for-granted lines on maps that indicate where one country ends and where another begins. They delineate territory and control the movement of people and goods. The dominant narrative insists that borders keep us safe. But from what, and from whom? What if borders are systems of power designed to divide, to dominate, to decide who gets to move, who gets to stay, and who is left behind? What if, as Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke de Noronha write, borders scar both land and our political imaginaries?
The evening opens with a speculative short film “EUphoria” (2018, dir. Robert-Jonathan Koeyers & prod. Black Speaks Back) beholding a future in which not Fortress Europe has closed its borders, but the continent of Africa. This is followed by talks, music and poetry that refuse to be confined.
https://felixmeritis.nl/programma/abolitionist-assemblies-2-borderline-states/