Seminar reflection and discussion
With Nishant Shah, Felipe Castelblanco and seminar participants

A question often asked in the context of communication is ‘How?’. Even when we see communication fail, a response is prewired and doesn’t account for the flux of communication practices that enables one to address some of the underlying power structures that continue to shape communicative practices: colonial practices of information storage, algorithmic structures that favor digital storage over human memory; patriarchal conditions that make the voices of dissent invisible; militarized nation-states that censor and penalize that which is seen as threatening; capitalistic formations that convert people into things.

In this seminar overview, moderators Nishant Shah and Felipe Castelblanco will facilitate a discussion alongside the participants of their seminar Communicating, which has taken place over the course of the week. Together they attempt to locate a practice of communication as a body of work in this flux, straddling multiple structures that could be rehearsed as oppositional but are more interactive.

The event will be streamed via The Shape of a Practice online environment: http://shape.anthropocene-curriculum.org