Aesthetics of Peace and Desertion Tactics

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Cross-reading of Elsa Dorlin and Judith Butler

Work readings:

• Butler, J. (2020). Introduction. In The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind (pp. 11-26). Verso.
• Dorlin, E. (2022). Introduction (What a Body Can Do) and Chapter 1 (The Manufacture of Defenseless Bodies). In Self-Defense: A Philosophy of Violence (pp. 1-26). Verso.

Complementary materials:

• Butler, J. (2009). Survivability, Vulnerability, Affect (Chapter 1). In Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (pp. 33-62). Verso.

—On the representation of victims of violence(s) in the Basque Country: three photographic projects, with Juan Albarrán

Work readings:

• Portela, E. (2016). El eco de los disparos: cultura y memoria de la violencia (pp. 119–146). Galaxia Gutenberg.

Complementary materials: 

• Albarrán Diego, J. (2021). Susan Sontag, ante la representación de la tortura. Aisthesis. Revista Chilena de Investigaciones Estéticas, (69), 281–297. 
• González de Durana, J. (Ed.). (2004). Laocoonte devorado. Arte y violencia política. Artium; Centro José Guerrero; DA2. 
• Guerra, C. (Ed.). (2018). La paz aplazada. Documentos y ensayos en torno a una exposición. Fundació Tàpies.  
• Sánchez Biosca, V. (2017). Miradas criminales, ojos de víctima. Imágenes de la aflicción en Camboya. Prometeo.

—Cross-reading of Ariella Azoulay, Ariel Goldberg and Yazan Khalili

Work readings:

• Azoulay, A. A. (2008). Whose Gaze? In The Civil Contract of Photography (pp. 375–411). Zone Books. 
• Goldberg, A., & Khalili, Y. (2021, February). We Stopped Taking Photos. e-flux Journal, (115). 

Complementary materials: 

• Azoulay, A. A. (2008). Introduction. In The Civil Contract of Photography (pp. 9–30). Zone Books.

—Archiviolítica. Methods and exoduses, with Andrés Jurado

Work readings:

• Bermúdez, E. (2020). La música colombiana, pasado y presente. In A. Recasens & C. Spencer (Eds.), A tres bandas: Mestizaje, sincretismo e hibridación en el espacio sonoro iberoamericano (pp. 247–255). SEACEX; AKAL. 
• Cure, S., & Jurado, A. (2022). CORTES, Cortacabezas: Conversaciones fragmentadas y visionarias sobre predación y tecnocapitalismo en la Amazonia colombiana. Revista Anthropológicas, 33(2), 114–132. https://doi.org/10.51359/2525-5223.2022.257002  
• Figueroa-Salamanca, H. H., Carreño-Gómez, P. J., & Rey-Rodríguez, A. F. (2021). Los orígenes del pacifismo en la ATCC. En defensa del desarrollo territorial y la paz en Colombia (1987–1990). Eleuthera, 23(2), 207–232. 
• Flórez Arias, J. M. (2025). Los árboles que borran la sabana: la colonización "verde" del Vichada. Mutante.  
• Iyokina Gittoma, V. (2024). Tarro vacío [Short film]. La Vulcanizadora. 
• Jurado, A. (2020). El renacer del Carare/The Rebirth of Carare [Short film]. La Vulcanizadora. 
• Jurado, A. (2022). Yarokamena [Short film]. La Vulcanizadora. 
• Rojas Arias, M. (2021). Abrir monte [Short film]. La Vulcanizadora. 
• Rojas Arias, M. (2023). Un lugar para pensar tropicalmente (Bienal das Amazônias) [A Place to Think Tropically (Amazônias Biennial)] [Short film]. 
• Guzmán, G., Fals Borda, O., & Umaña Luna, E. (1962). La Violencia en Colombia. Tercer Mundo. 
• Sánchez, G. (1985). Los Bolcheviques del Líbano Tolima. El Áncora Editores. 
• Viveiros de Castro, E. (2018). Los involuntarios de la patria. Le Partage. https://www.partage-le.com/2018/09/09/los-involuntarios-de-la-patria-eduardo-viveiros-de-castro/ 
• La Vulcanizadora. (2025). La impureza del documental. Cuadernos de Cine Colombiano, (35), 106–135. 

—With Manuel Correa

Work readings:  

• Giraldo, M., & Restrepo, C. (Dirs.). (2018). The Shape of Now [Feature film]. Atelier Bolombolo.
• Rieff, D., & De Greiff, P. (2016). Does Collective Remembrance of a Troubled Past Impede Reconciliation? [Online debate].

Complementary materials: 

• Collins, C. (2018). Transitional Justice "From Within": Police, Forensic and Legal Actors Searching for Chile's Disappeared. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 10 (3), 395–414. 
• Correa, M., & Forensic Architecture. (2022). Situated Testimonies [Video].
• Feldman, A. (2015). Chapter 1 (Before the Law at Guantánamo). In Archives of the Insensible: Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory (pp. 33–68). The University of Chicago Press.
• Feldman, A. (2019). War Under Erasure: Contretemps, Disappearance, Anthropophagy, Survivance. Theory & Event, 22(1), 175–203.

—Research presentations by group members: Head Shaving: Archives and Repertoires of Shame, with Ana Pol 

Work readings:  

• Azoulay, A. A. (2019). Natural History of Rape (T. Badia, Trans.). Fundació Antoni Tàpies.
• Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with Parliament and Democratic Memory. (2023). Las rapadas: El rapado de cabello de las mujeres como forma de violencia y humillación política durante la guerra y la dictadura [Teaching guide]. Government of Spain.
• Périot, J.-G. (2006). Eût-elle été criminelle... [Short film].
• Pol, A. & Rosón, M. (2024). Head Shaving: Archives and Repertoires of Shame. Journal of Women's History, 36(4), 151-172.

—Who Is Afraid of the Bandung Spirit?, with Philippe Pirotte 

Work readings:  

• Mey, V., & Pirotte, P. (2025). Who's Afraid of the Bandung Spirit? In V. Mey & P. Pirotte (Eds.), Who's Afraid of the Bandung Spirit? (pp. 1–20). Unpublished manuscript.   

Complementary materials: 

• Chakrabarty, D. (2010). The Legacies of Bandung: Decolonization and the Politics of Culture. In Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (pp. 45–68). Ohio University Press. 
• Finder, D. M. (2020). Blinded by Bandung? Illumining West Papua, Senegal, and the Black Pacific. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 40(1), 164–182. 
• Gupta, A. (2016). After Bandung: Transacting the Nation in a Postcolonial World. In Postwar: Art between the Pacific and Atlantic, 1945–1965 (pp. 632–637). Haus der Kunst; Prestel. 
• Prashad, V. (2007). The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World. The New Press.  
• Samour, N. (2025). Palestine at Bandung: The Longwinded Start of a Reimagined International Law. In V. Mey & P. Pirotte (Eds.), Who's Afraid of the Bandung Spirit? (pp. 1–21). Spector Books. 
• Shimazu, N. (2014). Diplomacy as Theatre: Staging the Bandung Conference of 1955. Modern Asian Studies, 48(1), 225–252. 

—Research presentations by group members: Images of peace? Aesthetics and strategies of peace and internationalism in the Spanish Anti-NATO Movement, with Giulia Quaggio and Lola Visglerio Gómez 

Work readings:  

• Quaggio, G. (2025). The Dark Mirror of Latin America and the Spanish Anti-NATO Movements in the Late Cold War. In L. A. Brunet & E. Karamouzi (Eds.), Beyond the Euromissile Crisis: Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Cold War (pp. 253–278). Berghahn Books. 

Complementary materials: 

• Quaggio, G. (2021). Walls of Anxiety: The Iconography of Anti-NATO Protests in Spain, 1981–1986. Journal of Contemporary History, 56(3), 693–719. 
• Quaggio, G., & Molina, S. (Eds.). (2023). Imaginando la Guerra Fría desde los márgenes. Comares. 
• VV. AA. (2018). The Long 1980s: Constellations of Art, Politics and Identities. Valiz; L'Internationale. 
• Ziemann, B. (2008). The Code of Protest: Images of Peace in the West German Peace Movements, 1945–1990. Contemporary European History, 17(2), 237–261. 

—Past Disquiet: Excavating Solidarity in the Arts, with Rasha Salti 

Work readings:  

• Khouri, K., & Salti, R. (Eds.). (2018). Past Disquiet: Essays on the International Art Exhibition for Palestine and 1970s Anti-Imperialist Solidarity (pp. 27–59). Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. 

Complementary materials: 

• Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. (2015). Past Disquiet. Narratives and Ghosts from the International Art Exhibition for Palestine, 1978. 

—Research presentations by group members: Photography as feminist insurrection: visual practices of a raginge peace, with Sandra Bustamante; Feminist memories in Latin America, with Sandra Villanueva-Gallardo. 

Work readings:  

• Cvetkovich, A. (2003). Introduction. In An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (pp. 1–7). Duke University Press.   
• Villanueva-Gallardo, S. (2025). Outsider-insider: una experiencia identitaria de los feminismos latinoamericanos. Íconos. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 29(81), 199–216. 

Complementary materials: 

• Cixous, H. (1992). Introduction. In D. Jenson (Ed.), Coming to Writing and Other Essays (pp. 1–58). Harvard University Press. 
• Cixous, H. (Summer, 1976). La Laugh of the Medusa. Signs, 1(4), pp. 875-893. 
• De La Cerda, D. (2023). Feminismo sin cuarto propio. IEn Desde los zulos (pp. 11–46). Sexto Piso. 
• Mora, M. (2022). Agendas feministas anti-racistas y descoloniales, la búsqueda del locus de enunciación del ser mestiza. Estudios Sociológicos, 40 (Special Issue), 179–210. 

— Desertion, Escape, Strike: Rejection and Non-Reconciliation, with Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga

• Berardi, F. (2024). Introduction. In Quit Everything: Interpreting Depression. Repeater Books.

— The Desire to Stop a War: Liberation Radio, with Martí Manen

• Johnson, E., Nguyen, N., & Sweet, M. (2025). Liberation Radio fine cut [Video]. Index Foundation. 
• The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation. (2025). Liberation Radio [Exhibition handout]. (2025). Index Foundation. https://indexfoundation.se/media/lr_exhibition_handout.pdf 
• Sweet, M. (Host). (2026, February 2). Liberation Radio [Audio podcast episode]. In The Documentary Podcast. BBC World Service. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0mxpj6g 

—Cross-reading of Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Fred Moten 

Work readings:  

• Gilmore, R. W. (2022). Abolition Geography and the Problem of Innocence. In B. Bhandar & A. Toscano (Eds.), Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (pp. 373–394). Verso. 
• Gilmore, R. W. (2025, May 25). Abolir la industria del castigo: retos y prácticas políticas para la emancipación [Video]. Institut Català Internacional per la Pau. 
• Moten, F. (2023). The Abolition of Art, the Abolition of Freedom, the Abolition of You and Me. Wave Books. 

Complementary materials: 

• Gilmore, R. W. (2025, May 26). Seguridad y justicia: modelos alternativos al punitivismo [Video]. Institut Català Internacional per la Pau. https://www.youtube.com/live/KN97LghMyMM?si=D9tl1gdXKkPMolXG 

— Screening and discussion of Oído odio, by Diego del Pozo Barriuso 

Work readings:  

• Del Pozo Barriuso, D. (Dir.). (2021). Oído odio [Feature film].
• Barnard Center for Research on Women. (2020, March 11). What is Transformative Justice? [Video]. https://bcrw.barnard.edu/videos/what-is-transformative-justice/

— Closing session