Countersign

Author: Stewart Motha

COUNTERSIGN is a podcast hosted by Stewart Motha, Professor of Law at Birkbeck. Stewart and guests discuss books, films, and other materials from across disciplines which open new perspectives on law, difference, and plural existence.
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A Burden of Unmourned Deaths
Episode 2
Monday, 3 November, 2025

Discussing student protests, killing of protesters, and deployment of the National Guard - Naeem Mohaiemen and I discuss his latest film, 'Through a Mirror, Darkly'. The archival footage concerns the killing of students in May 1970 at Kent State, and Jackson Mississippi, while the U.S pursues the Vietnam War whose dead are barely memorialised in the West. We consider resonances of this violence with the present moment, and what political conjunctures enable the emergence of new meanings from past events; and reflect on the imminent election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of NYC.