Nights of the Dispossessed – Riots Unbound

Natasha Ginwala is an associate curator at the Gropius Bau in Berlin and artistic director of the 13th Gwangju Biennale with Defne Ayas. She is also artistic director of the interdisciplinary arts festival Colomboscope in Sri Lanka and was part of the curatorial team of documenta 14 (2017). Ginwala has curated several international exhibitions and regularly writes on contemporary art and visual culture. She is a recipient of the 2018 visual arts research grant from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.Gal Kirn has a PhD from the University of Nova Gorica in Slovenia. He has since worked, among other places, at the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Humboldt University in Berlin, GWZO in Leipzig, and the Akademie Schloss Solitude. He is currently a research fellow at TU Dresden, where he researches the Soviet avant-garde and partisan memory. His book Partisan Ruptures was published by Pluto Press (2019), and The Partisan Counter-Archive is forthcoming from De Gruyter.Niloufar Tajeri is an architect, an activist, and a writer. She teaches in the department of history and theory of architecture and city at the TU Braunschweig, where she is pursuing a PhD. She coedited Small Interventions: New Ways of Living in Post-War Modernism (Birkhäuser, 2016) and Kabul: Secure City Public City (Archis, 2008). She has taught at the Institute of Architectural Design, Art, and Theory at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and has worked as an editor for ARCH+ and Volume.

• 1. Shake the Ground: A ForewordKeller Easterling2. A Slow Cancellation of the Future and the Fires Next TimeNatasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn, and Niloufar Tajeri3. The Manifesto UnwrittenSatch HoytTrouble with Riots: Alternative Definitions and Political Histories4. IntroductionGal Kirn5. Demos Noir: Riot after RiotDilip Parameshwar Gaonkar6. Revolts, Resentment, Resignation: Five Theses on the Negative Dialectics of Post-Marxist SocialismThomas Seibert7. No One Leaves Delila–A (W)rap on Riots Natasha Ginwala in conversation with Vaginal Davis8. Ideologies of Riot and StrikeJoshua Clover9. “They Been Jealous, Must Be”–Toxic Sovereignty, Dispossession, and the Extimacy of RiotsElizabeth A. Povinelli10. Riot Act, April 29, 1992Ai Ogawa11. Pat–Riot–Against the Slow Cancellation of the FutureAla YounisMnemonic Spatiality of Violence12. IntroductionNiloufar Tajeri13. Riots as Contestations of Neoliberal UrbanismMargit Mayer14. Built to Be Torn Down, Fed to Be Starved, Resurrected to Be Disposed Of: Capitalism is a Riot, a Riot from AboveGal Kirn and Niloufar Tajeri15. Revolving Anger & The Tarot BanksyZena Edwards16. A Night of the Dispossessed: The Imaginable Violence of the Grenfell Tower FireNadine El-Enany17. Chrono-Cartography of the October 17, 1961, Massacre of Algerians in ParisLéopold Lambert18. 15 Years After 2005: Anticolonial Reflections on the Concept of “Riots” in the French ContextDariouche Tehrani19. Cities of DissentAsef Bayat20. 1984 Gauri GillFiguration/Disfiguration: Racial Logic and Representation21. IntroductionNatasha Ginwala22. In Search of 1949Vivek Narayanan23. Unruly Life: Subverting “Surplus” Existence in TunisiaOana Pârvan24. Evidence of Things Unseen But HeardLouis Henderson25. Re-looking at Riots in Contemporary Sri LankaChandraguptha Thenuwara 26. Black Side of the Hidden MoonUnthreading Thoughts on the Riot in My HeadSatch Hoyt27. SAHMAT: Cultures of Dissent and Collective Memory28. The Time is Still, Always, Now!Josh KunBiographiesAcknowledgments