LATENT MOURNINGS by Flavia Dzodan

reading and conversation with Flavia Dzodan and Hugo Esquinca at 6.30pm

Latent Mournings examines how infrastructures of computation reorganize affect, temporality, and the conditions of perception. Through theoretical essays, recursive analyses, and media-archaeological experiments, Dzodan develops a framework in which emotion becomes logistical, latency becomes epistemic material, and mourning emerges as an infrastructural mode rather than an interior state.

Tracing a genealogy that moves from Affective Logistics to the spectral and chimeric ethics of Amorino Latente, the book maps the residues and remainders that shape contemporary life under algorithmic governance. Dzodan’s writing inhabits the interval between exhaustion and maintenance, articulating a practice ground- ed in latency, refusal, and the aesthetics of the never-made.

Drawing from projects such as Absence / Longing / Saturation, Haptic Mournings, and the ongoing research on Chronoecology, Latent Mournings outlines a low-energy ecology of the present: one defined by infrastructural decay, affective capture, and the spectral artifacts generated by systems that optimize for frictionless operation. This work offers a rigorous vocabulary for describing the computational present while insisting on the value of opacity, recursion, and incompletion as analytical methods.