This Sunday at the Vermillion Gallery, I will deliver my third and penultimate talk on the nature, character, and future of a kind of subjectivity that I call inhabitant. The first talk involved the economic developments that led to this kind of subjectivity, with an important detour into MLK’s “bad check”; the second, which occurred at the Savvy Gallery in Berlin, concerned System D, the inhabitant’s most immediate answer to the current state-supported capitalist order. The third talk will be about the body of the inhabitant and try to locate the source of its politics, which is often not, as my Berlin talk pointed out, legitimated or guaranteed by the state. What are the claims of the inhabitant’s body? Can they be found in the stomach, eyes, or head? The end of this talk, which concerns the deep social history of communal murders (another important detour), will draw heavily from the middle of one I delivered at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in early October.
After my talk, M. Washington, one of the rappers in Black Stax, will provide a supper, and Bruce Pavitt, one of the founders of Sub Pop, will select music.
