Advanced Diploma in War Maps: Territories, Crises, and the Reproduction of Life

This course proposes a fundamental shift: to read the present not from the perspective of peace, stability, or order, but from the perspective of war as the key to understanding it. Over 15 classes, we will address war not only as armed conflict, but also as a structuring principle of capitalist accumulation, the production of subjectivity, the reconfiguration of territories, and the crisis of social reproduction. This is not a course about war as an exception, but about war as a permanent feature of the contemporary world.

We propose practicing cartography to share experiences: to understand the world, to fight against it, and to make room within it for new ways of life. The publication of political essays here becomes explicit intervention. We are not interested in promoting canned discussions, but rather in inviting collective reflection on the wars that permeate us, surround us, and explode in our hands in the form of multiplied crises.

The journey traverses specific territories and regions—from Central America as a laboratory of empire to the strategic Amazon, passing through the crossroads of Brazil 2026, Gaza, Ayotzinapa and the Andean region—led by a teaching staff made up of leading figures in critical thought such as Silvia Federici, Verónica Gago, Maurizio Lazzarato, Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar, Bifo Berardi, Rodrigo Nunes, among others.

The categories inherited from liberalism, and even those from traditional critical theory, are now insufficient to explain a world traversed by war at all scales: from the offensive against bodies and territories, to the siege of the commons and the reproduction of life.

Instead of treating war as an exceptional outbreak or a developmental anomaly, we propose it as a key to structural understanding. This perspective allows us to connect seemingly disparate phenomena: extractivism in the Andean region and counterinsurgency as a technology of power; the financialization of everyday life and the resurgence of the radical right; and, in response, the reconfiguration of feminisms as networks of resistance.

The goal is to forge the conceptual tools necessary to analyze the wars of the present —including those we do not yet name as such— and, simultaneously, to identify the fissures and bets on the common that emerge in the folds of a damaged world.

The Advanced Diploma in War Maps: Territories, Crises and the Reproduction of Life is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students; teachers at all levels; activists and members of trade unions, social movements and political parties; public officials; members and managers of non-governmental organizations and professionals interested in the subject.

• Silvia Federici (Hofstra University, United States)
• Maurizio Lazzarato (University of Paris, France)
• Jérémy Rubenstein (Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Argentina-France)
• Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar (Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico)
• Fabio Luis Barbosa Dos Santos (Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil)
• Ignacio Gago (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Leandro Barttolotta (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• John Gibler (United States, Mexico)
• Veronica Gago (National University of San Martín-CONICET, Argentina)
• Rodrigo Nunes (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Emanuela Borzacchiello (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
• Bruno Fornillo (CONICET, Argentina)
• Melisa Argento (CONICET, Argentina)
• Edward Gudynas (Latin American Center for Social Ecology, Uruguay)
• Franco Bifo Berardi (University of Bologna, Italy)
• Diego Picotto (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

The program consists of 15 weekly classes, divided into two modules. The modules that comprise the advanced diploma are: