Born In Flames

This issue, Born In Flames, engages the power of the political imaginary for shaping the future: at a time when the only inevitability seems to be transformation. The contributions of this issue constitute experiments in collective thought with different and sometimes conflicting ideas, practices, and imaginaries from the climate catastrophe to the abolition of violent orders.

Scholarly articles come from Ricardo Juozepavicius Gonçalves, Abigail Iturra, Lena Silberzahn and Wojciech Ufel, with an intervention essay by Elliot C. Mason. In conversation are Erik Swyngedouw; Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson; Brenna Bhandar and Eva von Redecker; Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Dalaeja Foreman, Shellyne Rodriguez and Nitasha Dhillon; with a talk by Sophie Lewis

ISSN 2634-0909

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ARTICLES

Introduction: In Flames, Not Yet Born?
Francesca Kilpatrick & Hannah Voegele

The Imaginal as Spectacle: An Aristotelian Interpretation of Contemporary Politics
Abigail Iturra

Eco-activism and Fear: Some Feminist Insights about Affect and Agency in Catastrophic Times
Léna Silberzahn

Are Citizens’ Assemblies a Good Strategy for Climate Activists?
Wojciech Ufel

INTERVENTIONS & BOOK REVIEWS

Building Black Against Architecture
Elliot C. Mason

Review: The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare, and the Making
of a Human Catastrophe by Ellen Clifford
Luke Beesley

Review: The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles by David Harvey
James Bell

Review: Against Free Speech by Anthony Leaker
Ian Sinclair

CONVERSATIONS, INTERVIEWS & TALKS

Our Only Hope is the Making of Humanity
An Interview with Erik Swyngedouw
Erik Swyngedouw and Francesca Kilpatrick