Broadcast live from Battersea, Gorvy Lecture Theatre , 17 February 2015

RCA - Visual Cultures Lecture Series – Saskia Sassen

For this Visual Cultures Lecture series, the RCA School of Fine Art is pleased to welcome Saskia Sassen. Sassen will present: Systemic Edges as Spaces of Conceptual Invisibility. ‘The language of more – more inequality, more poverty, more imprisonment, more dead land and dead water, and so on—is insufficient to mark the proliferation of extreme versions of familiar conditions.’ In the talk Sassen will argue that we are seeing a proliferation of systemic edges which, once crossed, render these extreme conditions invisible. She will focus on this interplay between extreme moment and the shift from visible to invisible - the capacity of a complex system to generate invisibilities no matter how material the condition.’ The talk is based on her latest publication: Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity (Harvard University Press (2014).