"Against the Line" Charmaine Chua, Fred Moten & Stefano Harney

The RCA School of Architecture is thrilled to bring Fred Moten, Stefano Harney and Charmaine Chua into conversation for the first time to discuss logistics, labour, learning and organising under racial capitalism as part of its International Lecture Series on the Re-possession of self and space. The lecture will take place in person 18:30-21:00 in Lecture Theatre 1 at the RCA Kensington Campus with drinks provided. Also live streamed on Zoom.

Charmaine Chua is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research and teaching interests are in technologies of globalization, global political economy, infrastructure studies, empire and imperialism, and ocean studies.

Dr. Chua’s work is concerned with the politics of global circulation: how things move, who moves them, and why systems that are supposed to provision life might actually distribute inequality and death. Her first book project, "Logistics Leviathan: Circulation, Empire, and the TransPacific supply chain," explores the expansion of US-China commercial trade through the rise of logistics, and demonstrates how just-in-time global supply chains are imperial infrastructures that accelerate and intensify economies of carceral, ecological, and racialized violence in the US, China, and the Asia-Pacific.https://www.charmainechua.com/

Stefano Harney and Fred Moten are authors of The Undercommons: fugitive planning and black study (2013) and of All Incomplete (2021), both from Minor Compositions/Autonomedia Press. They are students of the black radical tradition and members of Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective.

Fred Moten is Professor in the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts. He holds an A.B. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Moten teaches courses and conducts research in black studies, performance studies, poetics and critical theory. He has served on the editorial boards of Callaloo, Discourse, American Quarterly and Social Text; as a member of the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California, Irvine; on the board of directors of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York; and on the advisory board of Issues in Critical Investigation, Vanderbilt University.

Stefano Harney is a teacher and writer who works collaboratively and collectively in the classroom, in research, and in social practice. He is a black studies scholar who has taught in the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, art criticism, American Studies, and business & management. During 2020-2021, he was Hayden Fellow and Visiting Critic at the School of Art at Yale University and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia.

Register for Zoom here: https://rca-ac.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FGmxrT2FQfOCEl9P5uwbsA