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 first talk of the series, Bahar Noorizadeh, Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar are joined by writer and philosopher Samo Tomšič to discuss the social and psychological impacts of contemporary capitalism.

Samo Tomšič is a professor of philosophy/aesthetics at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden, Germany. His research and teaching areas comprise modern and contemporary European philosophy, global critical theory, and psychoanalysis. He is the author of The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan (London, 2015) and The Labour of Enjoyment. Towards a Critique of Libidinal Economy (Berlin, 2019).