The book is a collection of essays which reflect on the double dimension of immunity: as aggressive-military distortion and as permeable border that generates alliances. Referring to the fields of Urban Studies, Sociology of Culture, and Visual Arts, the authors analyze, starting from 2020, how the nesting of emergency processes spatializes along material and symbolic boundaries, consolidates in immune narratives, and how these can be deactivated. The volume stands at the margin between academi

Since the beginning of civilisation, raw materials have been essential for the development of our societies. They have fuelled wealth and wars, espionage and contraband. Merchants and bankers, spies and scientists, explorers and navigators, all fought to discover their secret and control their market. Honey, ambergris, Venetian pearls, rags, Indian or American cotton. Cadavers, coral, talcum powder, sunflowers, Marco Polo's black stones (coal). Salamander's wool (asbestos), cola and angelica... Crazes and fashions create and destroy

This essay encapsulates the individual and collective training path of the two authors who met within the framework of a collective project of activism and dissemination on disability. A path common to many people with disabilities, which starts from the recognition of internalised ableism to its constant deconstruction, and then goes through an emotional, sentimental and political growth in its dimension of confrontation with the other than oneself. The fundamental step is to understand how

Roots & Waltz was inspired by a walk through the Vienna Danube riverlands. Regina Anzenberger went there with a friend during pandemic times, when everyone in Vienna was stuck indoors and going for walks outside. Having grown up in the countryside and having lived in Vienna for over 30 years, the artist noticed that her Viennese friends didn't actually leave the city when they longed for nature. Instead, they would go to the Prater-Auen, which is