VIULectures 1|14: The World is Rooted in Air. April 16, 2014

Wednesday, 16 April 2014

5 pm, room 1G

VIULectures 1|14: The World is Rooted in Air: Atmosphere, Lawscape, Spatial Justice

Guest speaker Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Professor of Law & Theory at the University of Westminster, London, and Director of The Westminster Law & Theory Centre, will discuss how Air brings together but also sets apart bodies by facilitating a division between inside and outside, inclusion and exclusion, continuum and rupture. Taking inspiration in Tomas Saraceno’s glasshouse installations, this talk looks into the way air (and other elements) are partitioned in ‘glasshouses’ of atmospheric affect.