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 ABOUT SÓNIA VAZ BORGES /// Sónia Vaz Borges is an interdisciplinary militant historian and social-political organizer. She is the author of Militant Education, Liberation Struggle; Consciousness: The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978, (Peter Lang, 2019) and of “On the Space of Imaginations and the Space of Memories: Remembering the Conakry PAIGC Headquarters,” in...

Sónia Vaz Borges is an interdisciplinary militant historian and social-political organizer. She has BA in Modern and Contemporary History/Politics and International Affairs from ISCTE-IUL Lisbon, and a Master’s Degree in African History from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her...

Antonádia Borges teaches Anthropology at the University of Brasilia. She does research along with popular ethnographers who dedicate their daily lives to theorize and understand land and housing policies. In places like Brazil and South Africa, it has been among women that she has acknowledged how modernist and developmentalist machines enhance racism and segregation. Her...

This conversation is the last one of the Latin America series. Antonádia Borges and I talk about the “weaponized architecture” that Brasilia as a ‘new city’ — we also discuss about this myth — has been implemented historically (during the two decades of dictatorship) and still nowadays through the strong social segregation at work. We evoke...

This conversation is an interview I did with graphic novelist Marc-Antoine Mathieu for Chicago-based architectural journal MAS Context (Issue 20: Narrative). The interview was made in French as you will hear, but for the purpose of Archipelago, this version is dub with the English version given by Liduam Pong. Marc-Antoine and I speak about his...

This conversation with Liduam Pong is primarily based on the essay she wrote for the first volume of the Funambulist Papers (Punctum Books, 2013). She was describing in it her experience growing up in Cuba where some books were considered as subversive and thus forbidden. This interdiction was followed by the creation of informal clandestine...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0RVSZ_yDjs] In 1956, Alain Resnais created a 20-minute long film entitled Toute la Mémoire du Monde (All the World’s Memory) that beautifully mixes documentary information with a fictitious style of filming and editing. What I just wrote is however symptomatic of a prejudice according to which documentary should tend towards objectivity in an attempt...

I recently gathered few texts from my literature classics (Kafka, Borges, Bradbury, Orwell, Philip K. Dick etc.) for an upcoming short intervention in Carla Leitão’s seminar at Pratt. I will probably transcript it here once I will have presented it, but until then, I can already share some of those excerpts or short stories. The first...

In his class at the Universite de Vincennes in 1983-84, Gilles Deleuze approaches cinema by what he calls la puissance du faux (power of the false) which intermingles (and not confuses) imaginary and reality to create the false and by extension, fiction. The notion of truth is therefore fundamental for his class and in his...