Discussion with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and André Ebouaney on abolition as a continuous process of emancipation, linking liberation struggles to the right to land.
Amilcar Cabral (1924-1973) wrote a number of short pieces early in his career: some considerations on the rains and the other works of In defense of the land. The pieces focus on how power and difference shape human-environment interaction. Always antagonistically curious about capitalist modernity’s multiple upheavals, Cabral studied material and symbolic elements in order to rehearse revolution from the ground up. In this workshop we will think together with Cabral and the Greenhouse project about land-use and abolition’s necessarily creative aggression. If abolition is emancipation in rehearsal, then it is world-making without guarantees.
Venue: Palazzo Franchetti, San Marco 2847, Venice
