Robin Bhattacharya presented at the Symposium Tracing Mobility: Cartography and Migration in Networked Space at Nottingham Contemporary on Panel 4 - Radical Cartography: Charting Empires’ Fall

Part 1 – go to position 40:30 for presentation by Robin Bhattacharya

Part 2:

Introduction (chair: Mushon Zer-Aviv)

• Mushon Zer-Aviv
• Heath Bunting
• Jean-Baptiste Naudy (Société Réaliste)
• Robin Bhattacharya
• James Kennard

Post Imperial maps of the world are being drawn up using the alleyways and rat runs ignored by empire’s former hubris. Now, using modern technologies, artists are able to overlay their maps over the standard projection, revealing an ocean of ignorance and bliss.

Tracing Mobility, the first of Radiator’s three international symposia, examines the emergence of a new art space, a space born out of the technology used to control and divide society. Taking place at Nottingham Contemporary on Saturday 15 May to coincide with the Uneven Geographies exhibition.

Video documentation of the full event: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/radiator-symposium-2010—tracing-mobility

New website for The Robin Genome Project now online:

http://www.therobingenome.com/

12 Short Tandem Repeats mapped on genome of Robin Bhattacharya

“Cosmopolitanism is today one of the most important ways of making sense of the contemporary world” (Delanty, 2009)

Abstract:

Cosmopolitanism, as in the above quote by Gerard Delanty, is indeed the dominant way of theorizing a contemporary consciousness of global reach. What Ulrich Beck calls ‘the cosmopolitan moment of world risk society’ (Beck 2006, 2009), is used as a framework to conceptualise social and material processes across the world (Hulme 2009; Tyfield and Urry, 2009).
And although it is consistently reiterated that the term is European in origin and therefore only ever partially valid in other contexts, it is exported nevertheless, as it is the traditional Western way of looking beyond its own boundaries.
To critically explore the historicity of cosmopolitanism and the limits of its applicability today, the typical genealogy given in the chapter ‘The rise and decline of classical cosmopolitanism’ from ‘Cosmopolitan Imagination’ (Delanty 2009), can be read against Dussel’s critique of a Eurocentric development narrative in ‘Europe, Modernity and Eurocentrism’.

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