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The Philip Ogden Paris Lecture - Whose fixation on ‘points de fixation’?

Spots, clusters, points. COVID-19 has inflamed the collective imaginary in its fear of toxic or explosive consequences when unstable elements concentrate in one place. It has also radically altered our freedom of movement. How are these two ‘fixating’ forces changing urban politics? The language of the ‘point de fixation’ has a long genealogy in French policing and sociology, linking drug use to youth delinquency to migrant camps. What does it tell us about how stigma functions within neoliberal governmentality? How does it orient our movement across a conceptual terrain still largely framed by borders though also empowered by border thinking? And what sort of attention is a fixation? In this inaugural lecture, Professor Anna-Louise Milne aims to think from within a disreputable ‘point of fixation’ in the polarizing metropolis of Paris in a bid to get some leverage on the contemporary constraining of mobility, but also as a point from which to assess a span of activist multilingual research that hopes it knows what ‘inaugural’ means.