Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Visiting Professor at Escola Maumaus in Lisbon. Her work has included many pub- lications, invited lectureships, honors, and awards. Her current research focuses on large-scale reconfigurations of the landscape, state form, and what she calls the “infrastructure of feeling.”

Big Things: Crisis, Value, and the Silver Bullet is a critical inquiry into the myths and realities of creative destruction. She will consider the role of industrialized killing in terms of primitive accumulation, value (exchange, moral, use), war-making, and place-making.

The lecture will be in English and takes place in the context of Lukas Einsele’s exhibition Mute, which runs until 18.09.2011.