Launch of e-flux journal issue #152: On Paralysis, with Evan Calder Williams and Brian Kuan Wood

Please join the editors of e-flux journal on Tuesday, March 11 at 7pm for an evening launching the journal’s issue #152, featuring the fourth and final installment of Evan Calder Williams’s essay series “On Paralysis.” Read the installments here: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four. 

Paralysis has become a term and idea inseparable from contemporary understandings of subjectivity, infrastructure, politics, and war. Conjuring associations of indecision, physical immobility, and trauma, it names a breakdown of the normal processes of circulation and information that promise systemwide health and seamless flow. But what if the very smoothness of these circuits of production is precisely what debilitates human bodies and broader systems of relay and exchange? And what are the potentials for refusal and unexpected agency that can be found in the interval when nothing works like it’s supposed to?

For the launch, Williams will have a conversation with e-flux journal editor Brian Kuan Wood about stoppage, sabotage, disability, delay, and damage, as well as the critical tools the “On Paralysis” series finds in the hidden intimacies between limited movement and expressive power. 

For more information, please contact program [​at​] e-flux.com.

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