Defund fear: safety without policing, prisons, and punishment

Crowded Choreographies: From Assembly to Association and Back Again

“…This calls to mind André Lepecki's point that "'body' and 'presence' trigger additional disturbances in critical and artistic fields: incrementing agitation, instability, and divergence " (2004, 2). With assemblies lodged in the public mind as a site of threat, recent calls to defund the police articulate a desire to defund fear (Norris 2021). In this affective economy of justice, conceptions of touch and being touched assume heightened importance.…”