What are ideas like ‘polycrisis’ doing to how we think and research the urban? How might we ensure that discourses and conditions of polycrises do not erode our collective sense of possibility? How might we remain attentive to the politics of visibility of crises, i.e. to those crises we choose to see and those that might remain obscured but which are worthy of greater attention? In this short piece, I consider these three questions and their relation to the larger imperative of staying alert to how the designation of crises can not only populate, but colonise the critical imagination.
Colin McFarlane (Thu,) studied this question.