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In this performance-essay, T.L. Cowan introduces a geyser method for 'situation knowledges': text-based drawings for the description and study of explosive, complex, and traumatic expression. Rejecting linearity and mono-genricity, Cowan writes tangentially and propulsively on grief, necro-political white exceptionalism and grievability, shock, shame, rage, and extreme emotional un- and re-shaping. Embracing the stigma of cognitive disorderliness/being disordered, this essay experiments with crip-femme autopoetics for immoderate ways of being out-of-order as a technique-tactic both for automatic writing and self/life-writing, which pushes past feminist mess and claims the chaotic as an aesthetic and political superpower.

Commoning occurs when people recognize that they share something and develop a sense of mutuality toward each other along with a shared responsibility for whatever they share. Because sharing and mutuality contrast with the individualism, competitiveness, and profit orientation of contemporary capitalist societies, commoning is widely heralded for its transformative potential. Nonetheless, commoning is not inherently transformative. We argue that whether commoning supports transformation depends on its relationship with heterotopic processes. Both commoning and heterotopia-ideal typical "other" spaces characterized by looseness and denormalization-present alternatives to hegemonic norms, especially those of state-centricity, hierarchical social organization, and the prioritization of market relationships and economic growth, but they are distinct processes that do not necessarily coincide. We propose an analytical framework to guide analysis of the relationship between commoning and heterotopia and illustrate it with examples from contested urban green spaces in Liège (Belgium), Montréal (Canada), and Brussels (Belgium).

This paper contributes to geographical research on precarity by exploring how emotional responses to enduring insecurity shape young people's temporal horizons, spatial belonging, and sense of possibility. Drawing on qualitative research in Barcelona, I advance multi-dimensional perspectives on precarity by showing how precarious entanglements - where the material, affective, temporal, and spatial become embodied - shape the contours of potentiality and futurity. I conceptualise 'foreclosed futures' as a temporal-affective structure that emerges from, yet unsettles, the logic of Lauren Berlant's 'cruel optimism'. For a generation shaped by austerity, the projection of present structural barriers to upward mobility into the future precludes the imagination of prosperous futures, fostering hopelessness, disillusionment, and nostalgia for lost stability. To unpack this dynamic, I illuminate how persistent precarity resignifies the urban - not as a site of potentiality, but as one of constraint leading to foreclosure of potentiality. I then demonstrate how a sense of inevitable downward mobility and social decline alters the emotions and temporalities tied to post-war ideals of security woven into cruel optimism. Finally, I show how apprehension towards insecure futures anchors young people in present-oriented survival, fostering pragmatic and pessimistic attitudes, concluding with an analysis of the socio-political implications of foreclosed futures.

Taking China Miéville's novel The City & The City as our point of departure, we develop the idea of "unseeing" as a central cultural skill to make sense of, and live with, contemporary urban inequality. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Luanda and Maputo, we posit unseeing as a useful heuristic to capture the processes by which divisions between disparate urban lifeworlds are produced and upheld. While unseeing is a necessary, entrained social practice to live with the contradictions of contemporary capitalism, urban life also offers opportunities for moments of "breach" that reveal both the forces that reassert social division and the potential of practices that seek to force people to see rather than unsee.

This essay examines the urban atmospheres of terror in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the perspective of women residents. Drawing on two ethnographic projects conducted in various favelas in 2016 and 2019, I argue that terror, as an urban atmosphere, is deeply rooted in a long history of racialized and gendered violence, and that its persistence in the contemporary urban landscape is a consequence of the coloniality of power. The analysis begins by exploring the layers, textures, and complexities of urban atmospheres of terror, providing a deeper understanding of their racialized and gendered nature. It further examines the transformative power of the body in reshaping these urban atmospheres, focusing on how favela women cultivate alternative affective atmospheres within their communities. Drawing on Afrodiasporic and decolonial feminist thinking, I show how Afrodescendant women in the favelas resist and transform these atmospheres, creating spaces that challenge the coloniality of power and its spatial manifestations, such as urban borders. I conclude that a key aspect of favela women's urban politics and resistance to coloniality is rooted in the body and the affective dimensions of urban life.