09/12/2025
THIS SUNDAY
December 14, 2025
7–9pm CET / 10am–12pm PST
Location: Online
Register by sending an email to [email protected] until December 14, 2025
As we close a year marked by escalating housing struggles, contested urban futures, and the relentless pressures of exocapitalism on our inner and collective lives, we invite you to gather with us for a conversation that looks back, looks around, and looks forward.
Together with John Malpede and Henriëtte Brouwers of the Los Angeles Poverty Department, and Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, an anthropologist and the co-curator of the exhibition Construction, Occupation at the Fowler Museum, we will return to the questions that shaped our Anniversary Issue, no. 36, questions about how experience becomes political, how community emerges under conditions of scarcity, and how the act of paying attention to our own conditions can become a form of resistance.
Issue 36 asked what it means to undergo the turbulent experience of being human in a world where our emotions, our labor, and even our grief are captured, quantified, and repackaged. It asked how we might reclaim forms of interdependence that capitalism works to hide, and how to locate memory, struggle, and possibility within the very places that are marked for demolition, displacement, and financial speculation.
In this online gathering, we will extend these questions into the realm of housing—its movements, its ruptures, its infrastructures of solidarity. From the four decades of cultural labor on Skid Row undertaken by LAPD, to the prefigurative politics emerging from urban occupations in São Paulo, and their echoes in Los Angeles, we want to think together about what is already being built, what has been damaged, and what remains possible.
What can we do from our respective positions?
This conversation is not a panel but a shared space: a moment to map the energies, contradictions, and forms of collective imagination that continue to shape our cities and our lives.
Supported by the Fowler Museum at UCLA and the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation, Berlin.
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