[Commlist] New book: Satellite Lifelines: Media, Art, Migration and the Crisis of Hospitality in Divided Cities

New book:
"Satellite Lifelines: Media, Art, Migration and the Crisis of 
Hospitality in Divided Cities"

Isabel Löfgren just launched a book through the Institute of Network 
Cultures. The link for download of the book is 
https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/satellite-lifelines-media-art-migration-and-the-crisis-of-hospitality-in-divided-cities/ 


“Isabel Löfgren takes us to the Stockholm high-rise suburbs to show us 
how art projects and transnational media intermingle with the 
multicultural urban reality. In this book, she discusses the 
architecture of her project Satellitstaden, where her artistic 
interventions with the satellite dishes on façades highlight the voices 
of its inhabitants through participatory and co-generative artistic 
processes. In these peripheries, satellite subjects emerge, orbiting 
around multiple identifications, foregrounding the notion of spatial 
justice, the subaltern and the importance of grassroots movements.

The book outlines a philosophy of hospitality in response to the turn in 
Europe against refugees, which Löfgren considers to be a crisis of 
hospitality, not a crisis of migration. Löfgren discusses the ethics 
that govern the relationship between guest and host, the self and Other. 
Who has the right to belong? On what terms? She argues for a hospitable 
turn in art, urban planning and media, in which guest-host relationships 
are performed, mediated and problematized.

We urgently need to re-imagine the ethics of hospitality and 
habitability for the near future. The 2020 pandemic forces us to 
reassess our philosophy and practice of human contact, re-engineering 
how we relate to the Other, and what hospitality means in the face of a 
global halt.

Isabel Löfgren is a Swedish-Brazilian artist, researcher and educator 
based in Stockholm and Rio de Janeiro. She is currently working at the 
Media and Communication Studies Department at Södertörn University in 
Sweden, next to her artistic practice. Her research interests include 
cultural politics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of diaspora in the 
fields of contemporary art, media philosophy, and media activism.”


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