ABSTRACT
The cultural turn of the last decades has shifted the attention of the social sciences toward the micrological and contingent fabrics through which social relations are established. This chapter describes Jacques Rancire's work to show how the ideas drawn together in No Borders activism help unstitch and reweave forms of political association through the network's interventions at the port-town of Calais. Creating concepts to attend to the political potentialities of contagious aspects of feeling, to engage technologies which instrumentalize or exploit such potentialities and to politicize the new forms of exclusion that accompany these developments, such scholars emphasize aesthetics as a crucial terrain of geographical futures. The chapter contributes to this emergent scholarship, laying out key dimensions of this new turn through conceptual and empirical attention to activist pedagogies employed by the activist network No Borders.
