political imagination

In this podcast, we talk to artist and feral economist Kate Rich about administration, entrepreneurship and feral vocabularies. We consider the cycles of learning and unlearning required to open up the imaginary of cooperation and business, and access their enduring emotional content. We recap experiences of shared bank accounts, economic abstractions as temporary hiding places, greyness as camouflage or cover, and acknowledge administrative practice as the inevitable soundtrack of our lives that is waiting to be reimagined. 

In this podcast, Brazilian writer and organizer Carol Stampone speaks about writing as her first experience of belonging, motherhood as a deeply transformative and often traumatic process, and the politics of empathy and compassion. She reflects on the importance of asking better questions rather than seeking definitive answers, inviting us to stay with uncertainty, to think with others, and to imagine forms of living, caring, and creating that remain open, relational, and unfinished.

In this podcast, artist and researcher Ameneh Solati reflects on the marshes as revolutionary landscapes in southern Iraq, the relationship between environment and resistance, and the challenges of researching a territory that remains partially inaccessible and historically underdocumented. The conversation also touches on collective spatial investigation, collaborations with activists and communities, and experimental forms of mapping that rethink the relationship between humans, water and land.

In this podcast, we talk with Jas and T.L. Cowan, coauthors of Heavy Processing (2024), about their early ambition to digitally chart every TFQ cabaret in existence, beginning with Cabaret Commons. From there, we explore the dialectics between computational logics and digital archives, and move into the thick of digital research ethics. We delve into risks, refusals, feelings, ephemeralities, and intimacies. Their deep humor and care animate a self-reflexive, collaborative approach to knowledge-making – one that generously shares what forms their past trajectories in relation to the temporal crises of today and the ethics of time itself.