The Community Based Research Lab is excited to welcome

Dr. Josh Lepawsky, Department of Geography, Memorial University,   

"Mapping the 'tech right' through a discard studies lens"

The 'tech right' is a shorthand term increasingly used to describe a political formation associated with Silicon Valley billionaires, their thought shapers, and the Trump administration. Members of this political formation are—and have been for some time—engaged in what could be described as two linked projects, one negative and one positive, but both involving mappings of various kinds. Their negative project is about delineating what the tech right explicitly calls 'The Enemy'; their positive project delineates geographic imaginaries about how social order ought to be arranged.

This talk will take place

Friday, November 7 at 11am-12.00pm PDT. 

Online on Zoom CBRL Conversations and in person at the David Turpin Building at University of Victoria.