"Cars and Coloniality" - Video Investigation with kaur chimuk

I have had the honor to pursue a little web dialogue about the car and its coloniality for the "Affect and Colonialism-Weblab" of FU Berlin with wonderful kaur chimuk. Talking from the streets of Austria and India, we raised some questions about what kind of coloniality the car embodies. This can only be understood as a starting point for further, in depth investigations

"In this experimental video conversation, we have attempted to discuss some of the relations between cars and coloniality on-site - that is, on the streets of our respective habitats. Sitting on streets colonized by cars in both Vienna and Howrah(close to Calcutta), we drift along the many trajectories a reflection on this central piece of material late-modern capitalist history brought us. The noise of the traffic mirrors our own ramblings about the multitudinous meanderings about these very exhaust (ed) entanglements. Within this short duration, we tried to explore the performativity of gender proposition, especially in the context of South Asian queer accessibility around the interest of automobile marketing in terms of sharing/projecting equal opportunity in the time of aggressive 'globalization'."

Find the video here.