Infrastructure

For 2016 Bergen Assembly, freethought will focus on its current collective interest: Infrastructure. By looking at many different understandings of this keyword—from legacies of colonial and early capitalist systems of governance to current conditions of the financialization of the cultural field to the subversive possibilities of thinking and working with infrastructures as sites of affect and contradiction— Infrastructure emerges as the invisible force of manifest culture today. This large-scale investigation will wrest the term away from the language of planners and technocrats to put it to creative and critical use within the cultural sphere.