From the ‘Lure for Feeling’ to 'Grassroots Planning': Grammars of Intention and Conjuncture in the Future Possible

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Graham, Janna. 2026. From the ‘Lure for Feeling’ to 'Grassroots Planning': Grammars of Intention and Conjuncture in the Future Possible. In: Bridget Crone; Bassam El Baroni and Matthew Poole, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Curatorial Futures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781399508452 [Book Section] (In Press)

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This chapter draws on Isabelle Stenger's notion of 'speculative pragmatism' and A.N. Whitehead's idea of the Lure for Feeling and to explore how the whir of curatorial rhetorics often seal future possible into over-determined packages of intention. Working from attempts to develop curatorial curriculum with students at Goldsmiths, the article poses a move from the abstraction of the concrete in both the university and curatorial projects into what Ruth Wilson Gilmore describes as 'grassroots planning', proposing deep inhabitation of the conjunctural, spatial and material problems in the present.

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