SPIN Colloquium 2024
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.