In this three-part series of conversations, Bahar is joined by writer, theorist and filmmaker Kodwo Eshun and filmmaker Anjalika Sagar of The Otolith Collective, alongside invited philosophers, historians and sociologists. Discover the full series →

Bahar Noorizadeh is an artist, theorist, writer and filmmaker based in London. Her work explores the histories of neoliberalism, speculation, finance, fiction, credit, value, the weird and the unknown. The Otolith Collective is a long-standing artist-led organisation supporting intergenerational art practice, research-led projects and process-based forms of development. 

Bahar Noorizadeh, Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar are joined by Australian sociologist and political theorist Melinda Cooper to discuss biopolitics in relation to new conservative philosophies of power. This conversation will take place online and a link will be sent ahead of the event.

Professor Melinda Cooper is a social and political theorist whose work focuses on the recent history of capitalism and its intersections with the politics of class, gender and race. She is the author of three monographs, Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance (Zone Books/Princeton University Press, 2024), Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (Zone Books, 2017) and Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era (University of Washington Press 2008). She is Co-Founder, with Professor Will Bateman, Dr. Aditya Balasubramanian and Associate Professsor Ntina Tzouvala, of the ANU Capitalism Studies Network. Melinda Cooper is Co-Editor of the Chicago University Press series Phenomenal World, along with Adam Tooze, Daniela Gabor, Mehrsa Baradaran, Destin Jenkins and Ndongo Samba Sylla.