Remaindered Life: Neferti Tadiar in conversation with Erica Edwards, Paul Nadal, and Jasbir Puar

In Remaindered Life (Duke, 2022) Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war. Tracking how contemporary capitalist accumulation depends on producing life-times of disposability, Tadiar focuses on what she terms remaindered life-practices of living that exceed the distinction between life worth living and life worth expending. Through this heuristic, Tadiar reinterprets the global significance and genealogy of the surplus life-making practices of migrant domestic and service workers, refugees fleeing wars and environmental disasters, criminalized communities, urban slum dwellers, and dispossessed Indigenous people. She also examines artists and filmmakers in the Global South who render forms of various living in the midst of disposability. Retelling the story of globalization from the side of those who reach beyond dominant protocols of living, Tadiar demonstrates how attending to remaindered life can open up another horizon of possibility for a radical remaking of our present global mode of life.
This conversation between Tadiar, Erica Edwards, Paul Nadal, and Jasbir Puar was recorded on April 11, 2023 at Barnard College.
This event was co-sponsored by BCRW and Barnard Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

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This woman is BRILLIANT- I am ordering her books- I am a Black woman from Bermuda- we NEED these ideas and lens discussed and community needs to be reimagined and expanded- my mind is blown- I wish I could be taught by this woman!
With deep gratitude, solidarity and love from Bermuda 🇧🇲