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LOUIS MORENO OF FREETHOUGHT–‘INFRASTRUCTURES OF RESISTANCE:

Louis Moreno considers how the political mentality of infrastructure emerged in response to both the destruction of an economic base and the ‘curation’ of the urban cultures of post-fordism. Against this, using clips from documentaries, excerpts from vinyl 12” records and other evidence, Moreno shows how Detroit opens up a different way of envisioning ‘infrastructure’.

“Contained in the cartography of Bill Bunge, the documentaries of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and the vinyl records of Underground Resistance, we can uncover a different kind of cultural infrastructure: an ‘infrastructure of feeling’ able to articulate and sustain a peculiarly infectious desire for social and spatial liberation.” – Louis Moreno

ABOUT LOUIS MORENO

Louis Moreno is a member of freethought. He is an urban theorist completing a PhD at University College London Urban Laboratory, London on the growth of financial services and its effect on changes to the urban form of cities. He teaches in the department of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London, London. He recently contributed to the books Urban Constellations (2011) and Critical Cities (2009).