A WORLD MAP: IN WHICH WE SEE CRISES IN CAPITALISM

A World Map: In Which We See…, Chalkboard version drawn for exhibition at the Betty Rymer Gallery of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2005

“A World Map: In Which We See…” is Hunt’s second conceptual mapping, charting the production of “statelessness” within the contemporary globalizing world. Following the figures of the “prisoner” and the “refugee” through different constellations of relationships and situations, it locates how each is denied meaningful access to participation in democratic space and practice, protected only by rights that no one is typically willing or able to enforce. The map traces these figures through landscapes of economy and rights, as they are conceptualized by discourses including political philosophy, sociology, history, economics.