Intimacy vs. Property

This prompt has been contributed by Andrea Francke who proposes to revisit the “infectious concepts” of property and sovereignty. She writes, “I’m annoyed by radical structures that reify the idea of property as the way to think about our relations to each other and the world.” Instead, she calls for the courage to pay attention to the actual ways in which we exist with each other, what she calls “the intimacy of interdependency”.

With the help of a selection of texts, from C. Thi Nguyen and Matthew Strohl to Lauren Berlant and Mia Mingus, Andrea provides different entry points to thinking about the shift from property to intimacy. For those who have difficulties in engaging with long texts, she prepared short introductions summarising the texts’ main ideas, as well as her rationale for selecting them. She also sent audio recordings of her prompt with spoken word for ease of access.

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