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. 

For the last talk of the series, Bahar Noorizadeh, Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar are joined by historian and writer Quinn Slobodian to discuss contemporary capitalism, empire and democracy.

Quinn Slobodian is a Canadian historian specialising in modern Germany and international history. He is currently Professor of International History at Boston University. He is the author of the books Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany (2012), Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018), and Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (2023). He has been an associate fellow at Chatham House and held residential fellowships at Harvard and FU Berlin. He co-directs the History and Political Economy Project and is on the board of editors of the American Historical Review. In 2024, Prospect UK named him one of the World’s 25 Top Thinkers.