How Secrecy (Re)Makes the World
12 – 13 December 2024
Edmund presented his ongoing project ‘Cosmopolemos’, co-authored with Crofton Black, at the Secrecy, Power and Ignorance Research Network colloquium at Bristol University.
Secrecy, or at least the perception of secrecy, has transformed the world in ways that have been radically under-appreciated, minimised, overlooked and even consciously erased. This colloquium invites contributions from scholars interested in understanding and tracing the multiplicity of ways in which secrecy, and associated ways of ‘unknowing’, have shaped the world around us, from everyday to planetary scales. Secrecies, as we contend, are far more pervasive both historically and today than currently understood, operating, for instance, beyond the view of secrecy as ‘tool’ of statecraft, instead shaping identities, social relations, economies, and security landscapes, for example.
FILL #03 — VIRIN: 825567-O-DWI94-718.jpg
10 December 2024
Edmund took part in the third iteration of artist Endri Dani’s ‘Fill’ project at Flowers Gallery.
FILL consists of organizing a series of exhibitions, where a single image will be contained in the space of a gallery. This image will also be the subject of a public conversation that will accompany each edition of this project. The formula of the FILL project seeks to demystify the overproduction of digital culture and challenge the cur-rent economy of images in the contemporary world, where quantity corrupts critical thinking by manipulating the frequency of sources and maximizing ambiguity about what a raw mate-rial or the roots of a problem might be. FILL attempts to create areas of resistance against the delirium of the rational mindset to which we are entrusting the fragility of our emotional sphere.
Edmund selected the image ‘825567-O-DWI94-718.jpg’ from the U.S. Department of Defense photo gallery.