South Korea has undergone rapid urbanization paired with geographical inequalities. Seemingly unstoppable and ubiquitous, large-scale construction projects have constantly changed the geosocial texture of the country, while marginalizing the evicted, the poor, and social minorities–with the approval of the state and through the corporate capital. As one of the most prominent and consistent dissenters of […]

Can space itself be haunted? Do older theological constructions of space from the past live on in our contemporary figurations of space, as Foucault once suggested? In this lecture I examine a case study, the privileged place of American sovereignty in Hardt and Negri’s book Empire (2000), in order to consider these questions and expose […]

Joint Workshop by the Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS) & the Collaborative Research Center “Re-Figuration of Spaces” (CRC 1265) The concept of "multiple spatialities" emphasizes that spaces cannot be studied as isolatable units. Rather, they must be seen as interrelated and interwoven in multiple ways. Multiple spatialities then emphasize relational interconnectedness, […]