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Maybe not that relevant to the cause,¹ but have you ever listened to Imaginal Disk by Magdalena Bay? I think it's one of the greatest albums of the 21st century!
-C

¹I, however, simply wanted to fill the five column layout and thought that music would be a good third art form,besides book and film.

Great movie for Federici-lovers (and haters too probably)
-C
p.s. follow me on Letterboxd if you so please
p.p.s. also, do hit me up if you ever want to learn how to torrent a movie (it's easier than you think™) / or if you want access to Solidarity Cinema (even easier™)

Probably the greatest thing the world has ever seen
By: us!

Hamster asked whether someone could add this movie and I have actually seen it myself so I can say a few words about it:
You follow a man in the modernising Paris of the sixties with grand new International Style skyscrapers and constantly gridlocked roads (as is also seen in the 1960 film Zazie dans le Métro), finding himself frustrated with systems that all seem to understand but he, eventually ending up at this not-quite-ready-but-newly-opened restaurant that, as the night progressed, starts to literally fall apart. (It's been a year and a half since I've seen it so forgive me if this brief introduction misses some of the finer (or coarser) nuances).

I shan't tell you where you can watch this because I don't want this site to get deleted, but it might be archived somewhere, if you catch my drift ;) -C

Irene: The above is the documentary I discussed in week one - Bitter Lake, by Adam Curtis. Note the soundtrack - made by producer Burial. Fun fact: Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism, draws on Burial's early work to exemplify the affective tenor of capitalist realism.

The article Irene mentioned about fossil fuel billionaires bankrolling the anti-trans movement: link -C

Paris is Burning: Great film about Trans and queer lives. It displays the way queer people are resisting the violence of the world as well.

The Last Angel of History: this is a film made by John Akomfrah from the Otolith Group, which make really really awesome films, exhibitions, you name it, in black studies and surroundings. This documentary draws connections between afrofuturistic space-age, techno, the digital age, history, what not, it's great and I think it fits perfectly with EPI as a programme and infrastructures as a course. I recommend checking it out, available on solidarity cinema w more sub options. xx G/Hamster

this pdf ^
Hortense J. Spillers 'MAMA’S BABY, PAPA’S MAYBE an american grammar book'
(1987)

Here is an interesting podcast I came across some time ago - ties into the topic of Harraga
https://soundcloud.com/de-verbranders
(I started at ep. 27 which was about pirates and contained some fascinating history)
It's also on Spotify
(some episodes are in English, others in Dutch)
<3 Isha

There is a great video game by the ever amazing Lucas Pope called Papers, Please, which thematically fits very well with the ideas around passports and borders that we discussed in the sixth lecture. It is a very accessible game for the people who are not experienced gamers and those who do not have powerful hardware, and in it you play as a border control officer, tasked with operating the only open border in a fictional Eastern European country. You're constantly faced with moral dilemmas, as letting people in who (in your opinion) deserve entrance but who do not have the correct papers will have you fined, potentially leading to you not being able to feed your family or pay your heating bill. The rules that your government imposes on those who wish to enter change by the day, and what starts out as simply having to check a passport against a person ends up as a complicated dance with passports, entry vouchers, working permits, terrorists, resistances, smugglers, a guy who drew his own passport, the list is quite endless. Offers a lot of replay value due to the large amount of different endings (for example, whether you follow the government orders to a tee, whether you decide to help the resistance out, whether you decide to smuggle you and your entire family over the border, etc..), has a great soundtrack and visual style, and is rather cheap at less than ten euros. Be sure to check it out! -C

The human condition: perhaps the most infrastructural film of all. A nine hour long meditation on the impossible to find balance of human rights within a system that can only destroy. Following the foreman of personnel in a Japanese mine in occupied Manchuria, his efforts to improve the living conditions of the Chinese labourers comes at the price of fuelling the Japanese imperial war machine (and that's only the first third!). Available online in Japanese language with English/etc. subtitles.

Based on a book by Junpei Gomikawa, which has never been translated to English (despite being a bestseller in Japan), but which has been translated to Dutch in 2019. Copies of this book are hard to find, but you're free to borrow mine when I'm finished with it
-C

"Consider the lobster" by David Foster Wallace.
It's 9 pages and an enjoyable read
was reminded of it by the classes on animals, in particular the question of agency/resistance in animals, though he doesn't go into it specifically... but mentions how the fact that lobsters behave as if they actually prefer not to be boiled alive, is a good indicator for what they want.
- Isha

After the recent US intervention in Venezuela this amazing documentary from 2003 came to mind... It documents the coup d'etat against the democratically elected Hugo Chávez in 2002. The film makers originally just followed him around the country to document the myths behind Chávez, who at the point of filming was 3 years into his term as elected president and was already a larger than life figure. The film makers suddenly find themselves in the middle of CIA-backed coup. It's an amazing film and there are many amazing pieces of documentary film making in only 72 minutes. For example the edit of Chávez' cabinet members trying to find out where their president is being held, cutting to comments made by coup-president Carmona after he fled the presidential palace as guards regained control to return Chávez back to office at 1:01:14. "While there have been a few scuffles, we have total control. The country is in a state of total normality...".
- T.

Also linking to this iconic video of Chávez adressing the UN in 2006 criticizing US imperialism because I've seen this pop up on my Instagram at least 20 times in the last two days :))
Rafael Correa (who would become the president of Ecuador that same year) said of this speech that referring to George W. Bush as the devil was: "an insult to the devil because although he's malicious, [at least] he's intelligent". :)
- T.