CRITICAL DISPLACEMENTS: ON THE SOCIO-POLITICAL POTENTIAL OF ‘WEARABLE’ STRUCTURES
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphil.2017.3.05Keywords:
wearables, Lucy Orta, relational aesthetics, mobility, nomadologyAbstract
In this article, we discuss the potential of wearable structures to provide effective social commentaries and address the political representation of refugees, migrants, and nomads. We take Lucy Orta’s Refuge Wear as an occasion to address a series of socio-political considerations around wearables, textiles, communication, and technology, as well as the role of urban and social environments in determining architectures of mobility. Finally, we provide a critique of framing concepts such as relational aesthetics, heterotopias, nomadology, or deterritorialization—to propose a rethinking of wearables based on the idea of critical habitats and responsible resource-based philosophies.
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