Etymologically, transmission comes from latin terms that mean to send beyond or across. Today, it also refers to the spread of that which is transmitted - acquiring on the way overtones of contagion, whether of knowledge or disease. In every transmission there is change, in space, in the material or medium, in temporalities, in social and epistemic possibilities. We understand transmission as both a horizontal movement across space or populations as well as a vertical movement from and to other time zones (for eg. generations) that must take into account the medium (for eg. crowds, electromagnetic waves) that connects histories, memories and actions to possibilities and receptions from others as well as from the future/imaginaries of the future. Transmission is not preservation but it is also not a rupture with nor erasure of the past (as with modernity’s future). Thus, transmission allows us to think with different temporalities, spatialities and materialities. Thinking about the politics of transmission, from within settler colonialism and racial capitalism, we will engage both the threats and ideals of transmission using film, anthropology, installation, activism and social theory, considering unusual sites and modes of transmission from possession to prison radio. Who in the beyond is to receive what is sent? How will it be received? There is a strong practical and interdisciplinary component to this course.