Interlude I: fugitive bodies in fungible places

ABSTRACT Inspired by “Phantasms in the Halls,” we return to the original call and the violent chaos of the present to extend fugitivity to where it has always been, the university and city, and to consider the settler colonial present. The colonist, the enslaver, the manager, the police have settled into the banalities of work and life such that it may be easy for some to claim innocence when in practice an incommensurable relationality offers the more just, decolonial future. The settler colonial present seen here is urbicidal in the metropole and necroviolent in the desert, leading us to consider whether a settler apparatus might aid in the finding and making of an otherwise future.