On the topic

Focusing on database and the forensic contemporaneity, this lecture questions, problematizes and analyses how database are being conceived and what their relation is to knowledge production within the current shift between biopolitics/power (Foucault) and necropolitics/power (Mbembe). By elaborating on the nature, power and promises of dominant digital technologies it conceptualizes them in relation to the forced separation of surplus life, normalization of violence, erasure of past, dehistoricization, racialization, turbo-nationalism and turbo-fascism (Papić), as well as (digital) coloniality to which bodies and lives are exposed. 

Adla Isanović is an artist and researcher who lives and works in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is a Professor at the University of Sarajevo - Academy of Fine Arts, where she teaches multimedia. She holds a PhD in philosophy from the Postgraduate School ZRC SASA, Ljubljana and master’s degrees in New Media and Critical Curatorial Cybermedia Studies from the Geneva University of Art and Design, Switzerland.