This seminar uses fiction across media to host a dialogue between critical space theory and contemporary frameworks of political relationality. We look for the crossroads of intersectional politics, the empty lots where to construct "a people," the putrid, fertile soils of post-human entanglements. Demolishers against all future: you are also welcome.

We produce the space of sociality, and, in return, space shapes social reproduction (Henri Lefebvre). This dialectic is traversed by the blueprint of form as "the precondition of possible space" (Anna Kornbluh). Narrative fiction -literary, filmic, graphic- objectifies those forms and configures new ones, reworking the very entanglement of space and society.

This seminar considers how fiction imagines the persistence of spatially embedded sociality in late capitalism beyond urban-centered solipsism. Special attention is given to narratives of building, reconstructing, preserving, and destroying environs. We read spatial form as the contingent neutralization of social conflict and the possibility of exacerbating it. Insofar as space is infrastructural, the persistence and vanishing of collectivity are at stake.