Hostile Survival: A panel and long table discussion

Panel and long table discussion with Brookes PhD students Natasha Eves, Laura Jagger and John Manton

Governments give many things the tools to survive, such as big business, data centres, AI, xenophobic nationalism, weapons manufacturing and so on. But at the human scale, of people’s actual lives, the structures that we require to survive, or even to make life enjoyable, are being stripped away, criminalised, and made hostile. This panel and long table discussion intends to explore this from three angles: that of social space, disability justice, and algorithmic sabotage. Because, as this panel proposes for public discussion, if governments no longer support humanity, rather than agonise over who or what they are for now - cough - capital - cough - we ask: how, in this present conjuncture, do we reclaim both our pleasure and our survival?

This event is part of the 6th International Creative Industries Festival organised by the Creative Industries Research and Innovation Network at Oxford Brookes University, it is FREE and OPEN TO ALL!