TBA21 Organismo 2026

25 Feb, 2026

As part of the Organismo: Art in Applied Critical Ecologies in the TBA21 Academy series, an Online Lecture in the framework of Grandeza Studio‘s Case Study on 25 February 2026, 18:00-19:30. Grandeza Studio are working with the case study: “Planetary Theatre of Tourism: Beyond the Performative Regimes of Unproductivity”, my lecture: “Mediant Narration and Planetary Conditions”. Registration Required.

Title: Mediant Narration and Planetary Conditions

In this session we’ll explore how planetary descriptors, like ‘entanglement,’ complicate our relations to space, time, location, sites, and scales. As conditions that condition life-worlds today, we’ll extend ‘mediant’ narration (Arjun Appuradai)–an agential weaving of mediation with materials–to the domain of hypothetical modeling, and how such empirical-fictional approaches remediate orientations of situated practice and research.

Readings:

Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2023).

Chapter 2 “You Can See Apartheid From Space”

Zachary Horton, The Cosmic Zoom. Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2021).
Chapter 1 “Scale Theory”