This afterword reflects on the contributions to a Special Issue that interrogates the biopolitics of hospitality in an age marked by ecological disturbance, technological transformation and stratified mobility. The first section considers how the biopolitical imperative to ‘make live and let die’ impinges on life beyond the human in an age of polycrisis. Subsequent sections engage with Claudio Minca’s analysis of sovereign sorting along the Balkan Route, Lapointe and Tremblay’s critique of tourism-led territorial reconfiguration in Quebec, and Molz’s account of algorithmic hospitality under platform capitalism. The final section turns to Salazar’s call for a planetary ethic grounded in storytelling. The metaphors of threshold and landslide, drawn from Hannah Arendt and Eric Hobsbawm, are introduced as heuristic devices to draw out the conceptual tensions that animate the issue.
Jack Palmer (Sun,) studied this question.