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Dear all, I'm sure several on this list will be interested in the following talks at Tate Modern. Best wishes, Rosamunde -- Rosamunde van Brakel Doctoral Researcher, Security Impact Assessment Measures (SIAM) project, http://siam-project.eu Center for Law, Science, Technology & Society Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel http://www.vub.ac.be/LSTS/members/vanbrakel/ * * * * http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/talksdiscussions/topology.htmTopology Saturday 5 November 2011 – Saturday 12 May 2012 [image: Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project, 2003] Olafur Eliasson *The Weather Project* 2003 © Olafur Eliasson. Photo: © 2003 Tate, London Giorgio Agamben, Etienne Balibar, Rosi Braidotti, Drucilla Cornell, Olafur Eliasson, David Harvey, Bruno Latour, Achille Mbembe, Ernesto Neto, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Peter Weibel are among the leading intellectuals, artists and writers who will be coming to Tate Modern as part of the *Topology* project. Topology, as a general theory of space, was constructed by mathematicians in the first half of the twentieth century. It initially emerged as an understanding of space in terms of properties of connectedness and invariance under transformation. Within a few years of its inception, psychologists, psychoanalysts, architects, artists, scientists and philosophers had started to use the conceptual language of relationships, intensities and transformations of this new theory outside its original field of mathematics. Limit, boundary, interior, exterior, neighbourhood, disconnection and cut were central notions that became ways of describing the fields of forces experienced by individuals. Static ideas of space as a container were replaced by understandings of movement-space, of multiplicity, differentiation and exclusive inclusion that in turn have led to new ideas of power, subjectivity, and creativity. Topological theory has thus come to serve as a link in a network of disciplines: in each case the multiplicity of space and the formal analysis of its relations has proved illuminating. Few commentators have made explicit the nature of this topological grounding however, and in many ways these mathematical realities have been allowed to fade into the background. The *Topology*series of events renders explicit what has been lost sight of in this process by inviting contemporary intellectuals, artists and writers to discuss how they make use of topology in their thinking, writing and making. *Curated by Bernard Burgoyne, Marko Daniel, Julian Henriques, Celia Lury, Jean Matthee, Brian Rotman and Fredrik Shetelig.* - Topology: Spaces of Transformation: Borders with Étienne Balibar, Sandro Mezzadra and Bernard Burgoyne<http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/talksdiscussions/24580.htm> Saturday 5 November 2011 - Topology: Secrets of Space: Borders seminar with Bernard Burgoyne<http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/talksdiscussions/24582.htm> Saturday 12 November 2011 - Topology: Embodying Transformation<http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/musicperform/24581.htm> Saturday 19 November – Sunday 20 November 2011 Talks & Discussions<http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/talksdiscussions/default.htm> *The Topology project is developed at Tate Modern in collaboration with NTNU Trondheim (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Goldsmiths, University of London, Ohio State University and Middlesex University Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research. Supported by Illustrious, 3d Audioscape, Duran Audio UK, Creative Sound Design, Martin Professional Plc, Ambersphere Solutions Ltd, Richard Martin Lighting and Pip Rhodes Lighting Design. * **************************************************** This is a message from the SURVEILLANCE listserv for research and teaching in surveillance studies. To unsubscribe, please send the following message to <[log in to unmask]>: UNSUBSCRIBE SURVEILLANCE For further help, please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help ****************************************************