IN THE PIT

CROWDS

Elias Canetti on crowds and Gaston Bachelard on fire inform this montage of images and sounds in downtown Lima’s semi-legal market of Mesa Redonda featuring density, saturation, reverie, heaps, crystallization, desire, and prohibition—favored terms in the authors’ work—amid the open defiance of the mayor’s new repressive policies in the aftermath of the April 2019 fire.

FORMLESS

Form dissolves into formless, and formless seeps into form.

LUMPEN POLITICS?

Lumpen as a resource: A class critique that resists conventional class analysis.

CROWDS AND FIRE

Fire is the truest symbol of the suddenness and velocity of crowd growth - Elias Canetti