Many years ago I read an interview with the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky in which the interviewer asked him how he felt about having to flee his homeland and of having to live in exile in the West. The poet answered in a quizzical way by pointing out that for him it did not concern him so much as all space is connected. Other than being an example of a especially Russian and ironic sense of humour there are different ways of appreciating what is implied by his statement. Firstly it points to the global perspective of the place we inhabit in terms of the earth as comprising of one vast interconnected singular space (Timothy Morton’s hyper object in fact).

The other more elusive but more important thought I take away from Brodsky’s statement is that we need to be more aware of the way we recognise and inhabit space no matter where it is. Can we think of space in different ways, to activate an imagination of space liberated from its old meanings instead becoming associated it with different meanings, one that understands space as an open ongoing potentiality. I like to think of Brodsky’s spatial declaration in this way. That space is open and that the political and economic boundaries or barriers placed within it should be dissolved by imagining a dynamic sense of multiplicity and boundless potentiality to space. A vision of total unfettered mobility for everyone within free unbounded space; this Utopian ideal is actually something that should be a basic human right. This is in contrast to the present understanding of globalisation
in which capital, good and skilled labour forces move freely but whereas most of the other humans in the world are violently excluded and stopped from moving freely across borders.
The way space is used and abused, how it effects the way we live, suffer, experience pleasure and dream is something we tend to neglect and overlook on a everyday level. Our acceptance of the space as a phenomena in our world reflects also our rather brutal acceptance and support of the creation of wall and borders globally between nation states.
Human displacement will be one of the determining issues of this century. Caused by oppression,
economic collapse and inequality, and environmental crisis. Christian Parenti calls this a convergence of catastrophes. All of which requires a profound rethinking of approaches to migration, ownership and nation states.
Frontex the European border force was recently given permission to operate at the central station and airport in Brussels. Now the border is everywhere.
Racial regimes of ownership determine the way borders and frontiers are enforced.
The wall and borders that we build to keep other people out will become and have become the walls and systems that imprison us, that keeps us locked in a certain ultimately destructive mindset of being in the world. This mindset needs to radically challenged and changed if we as a race can survive the present crises. The horrors and crimes occurring in Palestine implemented by the Israels and supported by other nations is a testing ground of how the world will become defined in terms of the consequences of climate catastrophe and containing the future mass climate migration.
What it means to considered a fully individuated citizen-subject. Being an owner of property is seen as a major factor. The racial regime of ownership that persists in the present time is rooted in colonial structures in which justification for private property ownership is implicitly linked to the concept of the human and that is completely racial in its makeup.
The proper legal subject determined by ones ability to appropriate property and land.

We Buildt This Assembly: a horizontal social occasion.
Thrown togetherness within in-between places. Discreet places or places of social intimacy and openness.
Intimacy, openess and informality are important assets when it comes to having enriching and effective encounters.
Can we develop a practice for mounting an assembly, one that involves alternative ways of exchange and discussion outside the institutional frame. The assembly as a spatial gathering for approaching questions of the individual, the collective, the community, the city and the state through imaginative, critical and exploratory methods of exchange.
Sean Bonney: All poetry that does not testify to an awareness of the radical falsity of the established forms (of life) is faulty. Understand prosody via black bloc tactics. No-one has yet spoken a language which is not the language of those who establish, enforce, and benefit from the facts. Language is conservative. Its conservatism issues (a) from its utilitarian purpose, (b) from the fact that the memory of a person, like that of humankind, is short.