What Forms of Politics Are Possible Through Design Today?
<p>In this conversation, Mahmoud Keshavarz and I talk about our common interest for the way the designed environment (in particular objects) unfolds a violence to the bodies that it hosts, as well as the potential political actions that can be undertook through design. Mahmoud’s work being particularly focused on the facilitated or obstructed fluxes of migration, we discuss at length the politics of objects that regulate them, the passport in particular, but also the charter flight that implements the expulsion of a body from a given territory. We speak of the regime of invisibility of the violence in which the so-called democratic systems function as a tacit agreement between the recognized citizens and the state authority. Finally, Mahmoud evokes the figure of the passport forger as the true disruptive entity within this system, in all its ambiguity, and the relationships of power they reconstruct.</p>
Host: Léopold Lambert
Guests: Mahmoud Keshavarz
Part of: The Funambulist Podcast