Ongoing Series: Imaging and Imagining the Neoliberal

Over the coming weeks, Octopus will feature a series of essays from participants in the recent conference "Culture, Space, and Violence: The Neoliberal Imaginary." Our first installment will serve as an introduction to the contours of the conference in the form of a summary account of the conference as a whole from VS's own Catherine Liu, who served as conference organizer and emcee. 

Here's a rundown of the essays that will comprise this ongoing series:

• Matt Reznick "Brixton and its Discontents"

• Meredith Goldsmith "World's Colliding: The Production of Conflicting Spheres and Solutions in the 1980s"

• Racquel M. Gonzales "Can Somebody Please Think of the [White Middle Class] Children?" 

• Jennifer Gutierrez "La Herida Abierta: Interventions in a 1980s U.S.-Mexico Border Region"

• Anna Kryczka "Martha Stewart’s Entertaining"