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SUMMARY:The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times
DESCRIPTION:Professor Campisi will present his monograph The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times (Pittsburgh 2024)\, which explores how writers represent Latin America’s neoliberal apocalypse brought about by ecological disaster\, socio-economic crisis\, lingering traumas of dictatorship\, and slavery’s afterlives. See below for more details. \nWhat: a lecture by Nicolás Campisi (Georgetown University) \nWhen: May 29th 2025\, 5-7pm \nWhere: in person at Pigott Hall (Bldg. 260) Room 252 (German Studies Library).
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/the-return-of-the-contemporary-the-latin-american-novel-in-the-end-times/
LOCATION:Pigott Hall 252
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SUMMARY:The Terrestrial Condition of AI: Notes on Planetary Design
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a materia panel on our yearly theme energies of energy!\n \nWhat: a panel with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Design School professors Manuela Garretón and Martín Tironi\nWhen: Thursday\, April 10th\, at 5:00-7:00pm\nWhere: Pigott Hall (Bldg. 260)\, Rm 252 (German Studies Library)\n\n\nAbstract:\n\nThis presentation proposes a series of reflections for an agenda that explores the planetary condition as a new horizon for making and thinking. Drawing on research-creations into the relationship between artificial intelligence and the environment in the Chilean context\, it highlights the urgency of developing a repertoire of practices oriented to reveal and materialize relationships\, entities\, and agencies often excluded from the modern conception of technological development. Based on these cases\, the presentation outlines exploratory principles for integrating planetary and terrestrial dimensions into design interventions and research.\n \n\nManuela Garretón is an Assistant Professor at the School of Design at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC Chile)\, an Adjunct Researcher at the Millennium Nucleus for Futures of Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR)\, and an Associate Researcher at the Urban Complexity Lab at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Her research and creative practice focus on data visualization and data stories\, particularly in relation to the water crisis and the environmental implications of AI. Her work includes the interactive installations Ecologías Híbridas (CCLM\, 2023) and Default (MAC\, 2017). \n\nMartín Tironi is an Associate Professor and Director of the School of Design at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC Chile). He is the director of the Millennium Nucleus for Futures of Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR). Tironi earned a PhD in Sociology from the Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation\, École des Mines de Paris (2013). In 2018\, he served as a Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths\, University of London. He is the co-editor of the book Design For More-Than-Human Futures: Towards Post-Anthropocentric Worlding (Routledge\, 2023). He participated in the curatorial team that won the gold medal at the London Design Biennale (2021) with the pavilion “Tectonic Resonance: From User-Centered Design to Planet-Oriented Design.”
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/the-terrestrial-condition-of-ai-notes-on-planetary-design/
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SUMMARY:Forms of Energy and Cosmopolitics of Labor
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a materia panel on our yearly theme energies of energy! \n\nWhat: a panel with Rice University professors Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer\nWhen: Tuesday\, April 8th\, 5:00-7:00pm\nWhere: Pigott Hall (Bldg. 260)\, Rm 252 (German Studies Library)\n\nAbstracts:\n.\n\nSucro Carbo Petro: A Genealogy of Modern Energy\nDominic Boyer\n\nThis talk discusses the evolution of the high energy growth paradigm of northern modernity through the overlapping energy regimes of new world plantations (sucropolitics)\, machinic industrialism (carbopolitics) and plastic mobilization (petropolitics). This genealogy of modern energy helps us to better understand the fossilized logics of fossil fuels that seek to amber us in an ecocidal\, genocidal trajectory. In conclusion\, I discuss some strategies for confronting a gerontocratic sucro/carbo/petrostate with what I term “decompositional politics” (Boyer 2023). \n\n\nDominic Boyer is an anthropologist\, media maker and environmental researcher whose work has helped shape the interdisciplinary field of Energy Humanities. Recent books include Energopolitics (Duke UP\, 2019)\, which analyzes the politics of wind power development in Southern Mexico and Hyposubjects (Open Humanities Press\, 2021)\, an improvisational philosophical collaboration with Timothy Morton concerning politics in the Anthropocene. With Cymene Howe\, he made a documentary film about Iceland’s first major glacier (Okjökull) lost to climate change\, Not Ok: a little movie about a small glacier at the end of the world (2018). In August 2019\, together with Icelandic collaborators they installed a memorial to Okjökull’s passing\, an event which caused The Economist to create their first-ever obituary for a non-human. His most recent book is titled No More Fossils (U Minnesota Press\, 2023) a discussion of fossil fuel fossils and what is to be done about them. \n\n\n\n\n\nWinds: Energy and Elemental Forms Across México\nCymene Howe\n\nWhat can the wind tell us about the world? In many conventional wisdoms it portends change. But it is also\, from many cosmological points of view\, a foundational property in elemental systems of being. In more contemporary configurations of energetic extraction\, wind serves as a kinetic laborer. In this presentation\, wind is offered as a speculative form and elemental figure with multiple potentials. Across the lands of Oaxaca\, México—which serves as a case study here—wind takes up ontological capacities that range from the economic to the philosophical. \n\nCymene Howe is Professor of Anthropology and Founding Co-Director of the Science and Technology Studies Program at Rice University.  Her most recent books include Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene (Duke 2019)\, Anthropocene Unseen (Punctum 2020)\, Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions (Punctum 2023) and The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory. Over the past 15 years\, her research has been dedicated to environmental concerns – from energy transition and climate mitigation to glacial melt\, sea level rise and climate adaptation on a global scale. She is a member of the UN Task Force dedicated to glacier preservation\, and she has co-created many public-facing events to raise climate awareness including the Okjökull Memorial (2019) and Glacier Graveyards (2024\, 2025). Her research has been funded by NSF\, Fulbright\, and the Mellon Foundation\, among others. She is a recipient of The Berlin Prize for transatlantic dialogue in the arts\, humanities\, and public policy and most recently\, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. Cymene’s projects and collaborative interventions center on the ways that humans and nonhumans\, ecosystems and geohuman phenomena can show us creative possibilities for mutual thriving; she is currently at work on a book entitled The Elemental Turn.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/forms-of-energy-and-cosmopolitics-of-labor/
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SUMMARY:Narrating Torture in the Military Dictatorship: An Electrical History
DESCRIPTION:Date\nThu February 20th 2025\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\n\n\n\n\nEvent Sponsor\nDivision of Literatures\, Cultures\, and Languages\n\n\n\n\nLocation\nPigott Hall 216\n\n\n\n\nNarrating Torture in the Military Dictatorship: An Electrical History\n\n\n\nSince the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985 began systematically using torture against political dissidents\, depictions of torture in films and literature have highlighted one of the most common forms of torture used during this period: electroshock. I contend that\, despite the relatively low energy requirements of torture by electroshock\, whether through electrical appliances or manually generated by cranks\, the representation of electricity as always and necessarily excessive constitutes one of the most paradigmatic forms through which its presence becomes symbolically visible in the cultural production of the late twentieth century. This chapter reads scenes of torture by electroshock\, which rely on the steady supply of electrical energy that underpins everyday life in the Great Acceleration\, in order to investigate how narratives of torture by electroshock have changed over time. In particular\, I demonstrate how the implementation of electroshock typically disrupts the capacity for verbal articulation in prisoners\, leading to the emergence of a highly specific narrative grammar. I concentrate on two pivotal moments: the first is the intensification of repression in the late 1960s and early 1970s\, when torture suddenly appears in narratives\, as seen in Lygia Fagundes Telles’s novel Girl in the Photograph (1973) and Júlio Bressane’s marginal cinema work\, Killed his Family and Went to the Movies (1969). The second period begins with the 1979 Amnesty Law\, which paved the way for a significant number of testimonial writings and fictional works that addressed the issue of torture in a more comprehensive and systematic manner. I discuss the testimonial narrative Baptism by Blood (1982)\, authored by Carlos Alberto Libânio Christo\, also known as Frei Betto\, and the fictional film Go Forward\, Brazil (1982)\, directed by Roberto Farias. By exploring the discrepancy between the small amount of energy required for torture and the intensity of electroshocks\, This chapter presents a theoretical framework for understanding the gap between large-scale energy production and individual experience. \nThe talk will be followed by a response from the materia team. \nmateria‘s theme this year is Energies of Energy\, a meta-critical reflection on the emerging field of Energy Humanities in conversation with the traditional toolkit of literary and cultural criticism. The group is supported by the Research Unit of the Division of Literatures\, Cultures\, and Languages (DLCL). Saramago’s visit is part of a multi-year series that examines various currents of anthropodecentric thought from a Latin Americanist and a comparative perspective.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/narrating-torture-in-the-military-dictatorship-an-electrical-history/
LOCATION:Pigott Hall 216
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SUMMARY:materia Graduate Student Research Fair: Energies of Energy
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to invite you to the second materia event in our Energies of Energy series: a Graduate Student Research Fair. This will be a colloquium-format series of presentations on Ph. D. students’ ongoing research projects\, followed by responses and a Q&A/discussion. Our guests will be: \nAmbika Athreya (UC Berkeley German)\nTitle: “Los encuentros eléctricos de Humboldt: Affect\, Adventure and Measurement”\n\nMüge Gedik (Stanford Comparative Literature)\nTitle: “Exploring Narratives of Liquid Ecologies: Dolphin Oil as Energy”\n\nCésar Valenzuela (Stanford Philosophy)\nTitle: “Defending Democracy Through Climate Activism: The Case of Ecotage.”\n\nMiri Powell (Stanford History)\nTitle: “Of Silicon\, Quartz\, and Hurricanes: Towards an Energetic History of Semiconductors.”\neli melgar (Stanford TAPS) and João Viana will be offering responses. \nDate\nThu November 14th 2024\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\n\n\nLocation\nBuilding 260\, Pigott Hall\n450 Jane Stanford Way\, Building 260\, Stanford\, CA 94305\n252
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/materia-graduate-student-research-fair-energies-of-energy/
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SUMMARY:Reading Session: energies of energy
DESCRIPTION:We are very pleased to invite you to materia’s first event of the academic year: a Reading Session in collaboration with the DLCL’s Marxisms Reading Group! \nWhat: Reading Session: energies of energy \nWhen: October 17th\, 5-6:30pm \nWhere: Pigott Hall 252 \nThis reading session will be an introduction to our yearly theme: energies of energy. Our events will build upon the previous years’ discussion on the interrelationships between human collectivities and their so-called instruments\, but this time our focus will be to survey the latest developments in the subfield of Energy Humanities since the publication of the homonymous 2017 anthology by Imre Szeman and Dominic Boyer (Johns Hopkins UP) – see below for more details. \nWe will read a selection that includes fragments from Fraginals’s El ingenio (1964:1978) Sidney Mintz’s Sweetness and Power (1985\,) and Santiago Acosta’s article “Cultures of Geopower\,” published in Spring this year. Our idea is to situate the questions surrounding energy in the subfield in question in relation to the concept of labor power. You can access all texts and some related materials here. \nWe kindly ask you to focus on the Introduction to the Energy Humanities anthology and read as much of the additional texts as you like. We will present briefly the texts mentioned here.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/reading-session-energies-of-energy/
LOCATION:Pigott Hall 252
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SUMMARY:Prof. Dipesh Chakrabarty: "“Climate Change and the Politics of Difference"
DESCRIPTION:materia is thrilled to announce our fourth and final meeting this quarter: a talk this Friday\, May 24 by esteemed Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty: “Climate Change and the Politics of Difference.”  His talk will be followed by a Q&A session with the author\, moderated by our team.\n\nProfessor Chakrabarty teaches in History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His influential publications include Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2008) and The Climate of History in a Planetary Age(2021).\n\nThis talk develops the argument of One Planet\, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax (2023)\, an exploration of the temporal and intellectual fault lines that mark the collapse of the global and the planetary in human history.\n\nWhat: Chakrabarty: ““Climate Change and the Politics of Difference”\nWhen: May 24\, 12:00 PM\nWhere:  in person\, in Pigott Hall\, Room 252
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/prof-dipesh-chakrabarty-climate-change-and-the-politics-of-difference/
LOCATION:Pigott Hall 252
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SUMMARY:Introducing the New Humanities in Europe
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, building on the recent publication of The Edinburgh Companion to the New European Humanities\, Italian philosopher Rosi Braidotti maps out the impact of so-called “post-” human thought in European academic institutions. How does this sweeping phenomenon interface with recent developments in capitalism and nationalism in the continent? To what extent is it a pretext for dismantling critical theory? \nROSI BRAIDOTTI is a feminist Continental philosopher and Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Her most recent publications include: Posthuman Feminism (2022) and More Posthuman Glossary (2022).
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/introducing-the-new-humanities-in-europe/
LOCATION:Pigott Hall 252
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240510T120000
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SUMMARY:Differential Dispossession and the Rise of (European) White Indigeneity
DESCRIPTION:A discussion of White Counterreformation from the perspective of Rising Seas | Melting Glaciers to demonstrate the ongoing conditions of geontopower as the ecological catastrophes begun in colonialism start seeping into European soils. \nELIZABETH POVINELLI is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University\, as well as a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a founding member of the Karrabing Film Collective.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/differential-dispossession-and-the-rise-of-european-white-indigeneity/
LOCATION:Pigott Hall 216
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240424T133000
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SUMMARY:Land Defense and Counterfactual Mourning
DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses on queer performance art that foregrounds female pleasure in land defense and in re-imagining a world organized by desires other than profit\, amid the rise of subjunctive aesthetic modes in environmentalist culture. \nCAROLYN FORNOFF is Assistant Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University and the author of Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change (2024) .
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/land-defense-and-counterfactual-mourning/
LOCATION:Pigott Hall 252
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SUMMARY:Panel with Diana Montaño and Dhanashree Thorat: Collaboration with CPADA
DESCRIPTION:On February 27\, materia will be hosting a panel in collaboration with “Colonialism\, Post\, and Anti\, in the Digital Age (CPADA).” Diana Montaño (Associate Professor of History\, Washington University in St. Louis) will be presenting with Dhanashree Thorat (Assistant Professor of English\, Mississippi State University). The event will take place at 5:30pm at the Stanford Humanities Center. More details upcoming.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/panel-with-diana-montano-and-dhanashree-thorat-collaboration-with-cpada/
LOCATION:Stanford Humanities Center\, 424 Santa Teresa St\, Stanford\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Environmental Humanities Graduate Student Research Fair
DESCRIPTION:Dear all\, \nmateria is thrilled to announce our first event of 2024\, an Environmental Humanities Graduate Student Research Fair. \nmateria is a DLCL Research Unit focused on anthropodecentrisms\, Latin Americanist and otherwise. Our 2023-24 yearly theme is narratives of the sociotechnical: infrastructure\, telos\, and scale. \nWhat: a unique opportunity to engage with advanced graduate students currently working with environmental humanities from a diverse array of disciplinary backgrounds in a dynamic setting. Students will present a brief introduction of their present projects\, followed by a discussion session moderated by Eric Kim. \nWhen: Jan. 31st\, 5-7pm \nWhere: Bolivar House (582 Alvarado Row) \nPlease RSVP here. \nNew attendants to materia are very welcome\, especially among graduate students! \nPresenters: \nNava Haghighi (Stanford Computer Science) \nAlejandro Ponce de León (UC Davis) \nMaría Zurita Ontiveros (Stanford TAPS) \nThomaz Amâncio (UChicago) \nDiscussant: \nEric Kim (Stanford Slavic Languages and Literatures) \nWe look forward to seeing you there. Please let us know if you have any comments and/or questions. \n\nCordially\, \n\nThe materia team \nHéctor\, Ximena\, Azucena\, Sofía y João \n 
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/environmental-humanities-graduate-student-research-fair/
LOCATION:Bolivar House\, 582 Alvarado Row\, Stanford\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231130T090000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Roundtable Reading Session: Latour & Schultz's "On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: a Memo"
DESCRIPTION:𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚊 is thrilled to invite you to our first event of the 2023-24 academic year: a hybrid roundtable discussion of “On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: a Memo”\, by Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz\, in collaboration with Bio/Geo/Cosmopolíticas and NYU – Buenos Aires. The event will be held on Thursday\, November 30th\, at 9am PST/ 14h BsAs.\n\nThis international panel will feature guests from several locations and perspectives:\n\nNoelia Billi and Fermín Rodríguez\, from Universidad de Buenos Aires;\nXimena Briceño and Héctor Hoyos\, from ILAC\, Stanford\nAngèle Christin\, from Communication\, Stanford\nGabriel Giorgi\, from CONICET NYU\nMartín de Mauro\, from CONICET UNC\n\nPlease RSVP:\n\nhere for the Zoom Link;\nor here to join us in person at Pigott Hall\, Room 252\, not 216 as previously informed.\n\nWe also share a Google Drive folder with reading materials: the French original\, Mémo sur la classe ecologique\, and the Spanish translation\, Manifiesto ecológico-político. We will provide an English language translation shortly.\n\nPlease help us share this invitation if you can\, and do not hesitate to contact us if there are any questions or issues.\n\nWishing you well\,\n\nXimena Briceño\, Héctor Hoyos\, Azucena Castro\, Sofía Silva\, and João Viana
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/hybrid-roundtable-reading-session-latour-schultzs-on-the-emergence-of-an-ecological-class-a-memo/
LOCATION:Pigott Hall 252
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SUMMARY:International Conference: narratives of the sociotechnical
DESCRIPTION:materia International Symposium \n\n\n\n\nDate: Friday\, May 5th 9am-5pm; Saturday\, May 6th 9am-12:30pm\, 2023 \nPlace: Bolívar House (Center for Latin American Studies)\, 582 Alvarado Row \nRSVP \n\nDescription: \nOn May 5th and May 6th\, the DLCL Research Unit materia will be hosting a two-day symposium\, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and art practitioners to discuss the role of narrative in and against sociotechnical imaginaries. This event builds on previous meetings throughout 2022-2023. A laboratory of anthropodecentric thought in Latin America and otherwise\, this year materia tackles the “grand narratives of scientific progress\, such as pasteurization\,” in Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim’s words\, but also the ideologeme of progress outright\, an always postponed if ever-present aspiration and imposition in the peripheries of global capital. Beyond such narratives on a societal scale and their familiar proleptic structure\, we invite consideration about other\, more subtle narrative formations—including novels\, audiovisual media\, and others. \n\n\n\nSchedule (see bios and abstracts below)  \n\n\n\n\nMay 5\, 2023\n\n\n9:00\nOpening remarks\n\n\n9:15- 10:30\nJason W. Moore\, Keynote\n\n\n10:45-12:30\nLina Britto \nThaïs Machado Borges \nDominick Lawton\n\n\nLunch for participants and guests\n\n\n14:00-15:15\nJorge Marcone \nKatharina Gerstenberger\n\n\n15:30-16:45 \nKarina Aguilera Skvirsky\, Keynote\n\n\nMay 6\, 2023\n\n\n9:15 \nRecap\n\n\n9:30-10:45\nGabriel Catrén\, Keynote\n\n\n11-12:30\nVictoria Googasian \nJens Andermann\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\nParticipant bios and abstracts \n\nJason W. Moore \n“Workers\, Owners & Planetary Managerialism: Climate Crises\, Doomsday Empires and the Natures of Class Struggle\, 1492-2023” \nIn the history of civilization\, climate crises have always been moments of political possibility. And yet\, much of a promiscuously defined “climate justice” perspective embraces climate doomism. Joined by most critical scholars\, this perspective holds that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Given two millennia of conjoined climate-class crises\, through which ruling classes were epochally destabilized\, that pessimism must be explained. In this keynote\, Jason W. Moore situates climate doomism within the longue duree “software” of imperial hegemony: a planetary managerialism rooted in early capitalism’s Cartesian binary\, maturing after World War II. Climate doomism is not only the result of a widely-embraced flight from world history characteristic of neoliberal ideology. Tightly joined to the flight from history\, especially in environmental affairs\, is the cybernetic imaginary of American nuclear hegemony and its novel forms of scientization and planetary management. Today’s Environmental Imaginary – as managerial holism and reductionism – embodies a justification for a post-capitalist transition towards a techno-scientific tributary civilization. Its antidote is a geohistorical method and imaginary of biospheric class struggle. This implies and necessitates an intellectual “state shift” away from planetary managerialism and towards vistas of the associated reproducers in the web of life. Only then may we pierce the veils of Man\, Nature\, and Civilizing Project – and in so doing clear our vision so that we may steer towards the communist horizon. \n\nJason W. Moore is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University\, where he is associate professor of sociology. He is author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (2015)\, Antropocene or Capitalocene? Nature\, History\, and the Crisis of Capitalism (2016)\, and\, with Raj Patel\, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (2017). His books and essays on environmental history\, capitalism\, and social theory have been widely recognized\, including the Alice Hamilton Prize of the American Society for Environmental History (2003)\, the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Section on the Political Economy of the World-System (American Sociological Association\, 2002 for articles\, and 2015 for Web of Life)\, and the Byres and Bernstein Prize in Agrarian Change (2011).  \n\n  \n\nLina Britto  \n“Hippies\, Airplanes\, and Wars: A Counter-Narrative of Narcotrafficking in the Americas” \nThe paper questions the grand narrative that politicians\, experts\, and pop culture producers have articulated during the fifty years of the War on Drugs\, one that portrays the protagonists of the drug history of the Americas as ruthless black and brown men and undocumented immigrants of color. Instead\, it focuses on the middle- and upper-class white Americans that introduced some of the technological and entrepreneurial innovations that transformed existing smuggling practices into a profitable transnational business.  \nLina Britto is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is a historian of modern Latin America and the Caribbean. Her work situates the emergence and consolidation of illegal drug smuggling networks in Colombia in the context of a growing articulation between the South American country and the United States during the Cold War. She is the author of Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise (University of California Press\, 2020)\, which was awarded an honorable mention in social science from Colombia’s Fundación Alejandro Ángel Escobar National Book Awards\, 2021.   \n  \nThaïs Machado Borges \n“Green and Yellow Exoskeletons – Media\, Materiality and the Production of Far-right Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Contemporary Brazil” \nThis presentation discusses the role of media and materiality in the construction of far-right subjects and imaginaries in Brazil. Based on an iconographic analysis of the uses and trajectories of flags\, t-shirts\, hats\, colors\, posters\, songs and sayings\, as they appear in pre-electoral far-right manifestations\, this presentation discusses the role of objects and cultural artifacts as bearers of political positioning and as ways of being political.   \nThaïs Machado-Borges is a Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies and the director of the Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies\, at Stockholm University. She is a social anthropologist with a focus on contemporary urban Brazil. Machado-Borges has researched on topics such as popular culture (telenovelas)\, class and consumption\, bodily grooming and modification\, overconsumption and the meanings of waste.  \n  \nDominick Lawton  \n“Mixing Cement: Fyodor Gladkov and the Soviet “Production Novel” \nMy paper reads Fyodor Gladkov’s novel Cement (1925)\, the first Soviet “production novel” and a text that would be dubbed an exemplar of “socialist realism” in the 1930s\, through its titular substance. Cement in Cement both analogizes post-revolutionary social reconstitution after the October Revolution/Russian Civil War and models Gladkov’s vision of how to write a new Soviet novel using old sources. This simultaneously provides a teleological model for the propagandistic abstraction of later socialist realism and indicates the messy genesis of (official) Soviet literature in practice. \nDominick Lawton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University. His current book project\, “Rebellious Things\,” explores the poetics of materialism in early 20th century Russian and Soviet literature. He is also working on a study of socialist and post-socialist housing as a cultural force in the (former) Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. \n  \nJorge Marcone  \n“Human Microbiota Conservation: A Narrative of Multiscale Colonization\, Extinction\, and Restoration” \nThis paper proposes a critical interpretation of human microbiota conservation discourses and visualizations\, but also from a collaborative perspective on the conservation efforts. It is about the ecosystems within us and on how they open more understandings about the relation of humans\, animals\, and plants with ecosystems outside these bodies. It has good health and political potential for indigenous peoples (and risks as well)\, the technology is accessible to local scientists\, the right legislation is already in place\, and the matter offers an insight into our medicine and food production priorities\, particularly in Latin America.  \nJorge Marcone is professor of environmental humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, and the Program in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick\, where he currently serves as Associate Dean of Humanities. His research and teaching interests focus on how social-ecological crises\, transitions\, and resilience are addressed in Latin American culture. His preferred archives come from Amazonian literature\, film\, and art.  \n  \nKatharina Gerstenberger \n“Narratives of the Future: Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Yoko Tawada’s Post-Fukushima Story “The Island of Eternal Life” (2012)” \nIn her short story “The Island of Eternal Life\,” Tokyo-born writer Yoko Tawada\, who lives in Germany\, interrogates Japan’s sociotechnical imaginary of a modern\, energy-independent future in the wake of Fukushima. Employing a transnational lens and a narrative structure conspicuously devoid of an authorial center\, Tawada probes national culture through technology.  \nKatharina Gerstenberger is professor of German in the department of World Languages & Cultures at the University of Utah. Her work is on 20th- and 21st-century German literary culture and Environmental Humanities. She is the author or co-editor of five books and the current editor of German Studies Review.  \n  \nKarina Aguilera Skvirsky \n“Carrying a Rock from Ingapirca” \nWe know history is not linear and yet it is often presented in a familiar pattern–this happened and then this and then that and so on… Historians\, however\, know that history is messy. The end of one culture and the beginning of another is often murky and includes competing ideologies and technologies. My project uses histories—personal\, collective\, institutional\, fantastical—to think about the politics around the presentation of history and how those beliefs impact the present. And yet\, my project is not academic; it is an interpretation of the past through a subjective lens that reimagines the gaps in history. \nKarina Aguilera Skvirsky is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice began in photography and grew into video and performance. In 2019\, she received a grant from Creative Capital to produce Sacred Geometry\, a series of hand-cut photographic collages and How to build a wall and other ruins\, a project that includes a multi-channel video installation and live performances. She has exhibited Sacred Geometry in solo exhibitions at Museo Amparo in Puebla\, Mexico and Ponce + Robles Gallery in Madrid\, Spain. How to Build a Wall and Other Ruins premiered at the XVth Cuenca Biennial\, curated by Blanca de la Torre in December 2021. \n  \nGabriel Catrén \n“On Abstraction\, Identity\, and Difference” \nIn this talk\, I will address a fundamental operation of socio-technical systems thanks to which we can understand lifeworld complexity and organize it according to simpler models\, namely abstraction. Abstraction is at the basis of a constellation of interrelated motifs pertaining to the sociotechnical narrative of modernity\, including universality\, scientific rationalization\, objectivation\, classifications\, structural analysis\, and modern political economy. At the same time\, abstraction entails a form of violence exerted against all that is abstracted away. Is it possible to reconceptualize the notion of abstraction in such a way that we can overcome the pitfalls of what William James called “vicious abstractionism”? \nGabriel Catrén holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy (Université de Paris VIII). He was Directeur de programme au Collège International de Philosophie and currently works as a permanent researcher at the Institute SPHERE – Sciences\, Philosophie\, Histoire (CNRS\, Université Paris Cité). \n  \nVicky Googasian  \n“Animal Neuroscience and the Future of the Novel” \nMy paper explores the unexpected role that the neuroscientific study of nonhuman sentience has begun to play in motivating contemporary fiction’s narrative experiments. I argue that the culturally mediated promises of animal neuroscience have become\, in many recent novels\, an internal justification for the continued ethical relevance of novelistic character. This development merits further critical evaluation in order to understand the fates of narrative fiction. \nVictoria Googasian is assistant professor of American Literature at Georgetown University in Qatar. Her research describes how novel forms experiment and expand in response to the otherness of animals\, landscapes\, processes\, and collectives\, and has appeared in New Literary History\, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction\, and JML: Journal of Modern Literature. Her current manuscript is Animal Minds\, Other Minds: Nonhuman Intelligence and Narrative Form in American Fiction. She received her PhD from Stanford University in 2019. \n  \nJens Andermann \n“Immundus: cancer and capitalism in Aquarius” \nPolitical rhetorics of planetary sickness have proliferated recently in ways both reminiscent of and starkly different from\, Susan Sontag’s 1977 classic. In my reading of Kléber Mendonça Filho’s film Aquarius (2016) –a key cultural text of Brazil’s ongoing political crisis— I suggest that interrelations between the afflictions of body and environment should be approached not from the rhetorics of figuration but rather the affect-dynamic of assemblages. Read in this fashion\, the film chronicles the emergence of competing geopolitical machines\, which I suggest thinking of as unworlding (imundo) and afterlife (sobrevida). \nJens Andermann is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University and an editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. His most recent books are: Jardín (Santiago: Bifurcaciones\, 2023)\, Entranced Earth: Art\, Extractivism\, and the End of Landscape (Evanston: Northwestern UP\, 2023; Spanish ed. Metales Pesados 2018)\, Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics\, with Gabriel Giorgi and Victoria Saramago (Berlin: De Gruyter\, 2023)\, and Natura. Environmental Aesthetics After Landscape\, with Lisa Blackmore and Dayron Carrillo Morell (Zurich: Diaphanes\, 2018).  \n\n\nOrganizers \nmateria \nHéctor Hoyos\, Ximena Briceño\, Azucena Castro\, João Viana\, Sofía Silva \n\n\nSponsors \nResearch Unit at the Division of Literatures\, Cultures and Languages \nCenter for Latin American Studies \nModern Thought and Literature \nDepartment of Iberian and Latin American Cultures \nUniversity of Stockholm \nDepartment of German Studies \nDepartment of Theater and Performance Studies \nDepartment of English \nUniversité de Paris  \nCentre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) \nStanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence \nStanford School of Humanities and Sciences \nStanford Humanities Center \nFrance-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Reading Session: narratives of the sociotechnical
DESCRIPTION:An informal conversation on pre-circulated texts pertaining to our year’s theme. Reach out to us for the texts. Thank you!
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/reading-session-narratives-of-the-sociotechnical/
LOCATION:Pigott Hall 252
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230216T170000
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SUMMARY:Literature and Expenditure
DESCRIPTION:A panel with Jaime Rodríguez Matos (CSU\, Fresno) and Romina Wainberg (Stanford University). \nAbout the event:\n\nTo Get Out of Our Human Nook: Chance\, Thinking\, Literature in the Anthropocene \n\nRecent interventions concerning the link between the humanities and the Anthropocene have returned to well-known literary tropes for the de-centering of the human point of view vis-à-vis “Nature” and the world. I propose to engage with this line of thinking by interrogating the intersection of chance\, thinking\, and the idea of literature in the work of Nietzsche\, Bataille\, Neruda and Juarroz.\n\nJaime Rodríguez Matos (CSU\, Fresno) is the author of Writing of the Formless: José Lezama Lima and the End of Time (Fordham UP\, 2017).\n\n\nAgainst Predictability: Affordances of Unproductive Writing for Anthropodecentric Thinking \n\nMy talk examines affordances of “unproductive writing practices” as depicted in two nineteenth-century Latin American novels: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab (1841) and Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis’ The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1881). I propose that\, in these novels\, characters’ engagement with unproductive writing affords them an openness toward human and non-human disruptions\, unsuspected entanglements\, and unpredictable occurrences. In stressing the potentialities of unproductivity and unpredictability (or unpredictability within unproductivity)\, these novels prompt us to redefine the concept of writing and to reengage with the writerly process from an anthropodecentric perspective.\n\nRomina Wainberg is a PhD Candidate in Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University. She coordinates the DIF project “Queer Latin American Voices” and the France-Stanford collaborative initiative “The Multiplicity Turn: Theories of Identity from Poetry to Mathematics.”
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/literature-and-expenditure/
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SUMMARY:Wetlands in Art & Theory
DESCRIPTION:The webinar consisted in a conversation between:\nArtist and curator Camila Marambio\, founder and director of Ensayos\, a collective research practice centred on de-extinction\, multispecies dialogues\, coastal health and peatland protection. The peatland research done by Ensayos gave rise to Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol\, the Chilean pavilion at the 59th venice Biennale\, curated by Marambio\, with the artists Ariel Bustamante\, Carla Macchiavello\, Dominga Sotomayor and Alfredo Thiermann\, among other creative collaborators from the Wildlife Conservation Society-Chile\, the Selk’nam Foundation Hach Saye\, and the Greifswald Mire Center\, and \nLisa Blackmore\, Senior Lecturer in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex\, United Kingdom\, where she is currently investigating how humans relate to rivers through analyses of infrastructures\, sound and installation art\, poetry and sensory connections to water. She is the founder of the international interdisciplinary research group entre—ríos. \nA recording should be available soon.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/wetlands-in-art-theory/
LOCATION:Pigott Hall 252
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SUMMARY:Literatures of Planetary Thresholds
DESCRIPTION:Literatures of Planetary Thresholds\n\nWhen: Thursday\, November 17th\, at noon. \nWhere: Pigott Hall 252. \n\nWatch here\n\nChristian Galdón\nLiterature facing Gaia\n\nBuilding my reflection around the example of Christian Bök’s The Xenotext\, Vivian Abenshushan’s Permanente Obra Negra and Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia I point out the challenges that Literature faces when integrating and materializing the ontological turn (Descola) practiced by other human sciences such as Anthropology.\n  \nDavid Stentiford\nOcean as Plantation \nBeginning in the early 1970s\, research and development projects tested novel marine infrastructure to grow giant kelp\, Macrocystis pyrifera\, on floating substrates off shore. The goal of these efforts was to produce a renewable\, domestic source of oil and gas; feed a hungry world; and cool Earth. The marine biomass farm held appeal because it would not compete with terrestrial agriculture for space\, water\, or fertilizers. By 2100\, one estimate held\, humans could be farming thirty to fifty percent of the world’s oceans\, providing for a world of fifty billion. \nIn this talk\, I describe how the imaginary of offshore mariculture circulated in the United States after World War II and was central to environmental debates around planetary limits. I’ll make the case that ocean farms\, as imagined in the twentieth century\, were an extension of the modern plantation form. Following Wolford’s discussion of the Plantationocene\, I suggest that marine farms served as a “discursive ideal” to organize society at global scales and around planetary systems. I conclude by linking “Plantationocene” discussions with Jasanoff and Kim’s definition of sociotechnical imaginaries. I suggest that mariculture was imagined as a way to institutionally re-stabilize a plantation imaginary in the United States at a moment when the oceans were recast as the nation’s new frontier.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/literatures-of-planetary-thresholds/
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SUMMARY:Poetry\, Poetics\, and Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:Gustavo Carvajal (Universidad Finis Terrae\, Chile) and Azucena Castro (Stockholm University/Stanford University) discussed the relationship between poetry\, poetics and climate futures with the notion of narratives of the socio-technical. This second event in the 2022/2023 academic term took place on October 20 at Pigott Hall.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/poetry-poetics-and-climate-change/
LOCATION:Pigott Hall 252
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220929T120000
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SUMMARY:Filmscreening of Ana Vaz’s "Apiyemiyekî?"
DESCRIPTION:materia’s first event of the 2022-2023 academic term took place on September 29. It centered on the filmscreening of Ana Vaz’s short filmApiyemiyekî?\, commissioned as a response to the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985). Vaz works with an extraordinary archive from Brazilian educator and indigenous rights activist\, Egydio Schwade ―over 3000 drawings collected during a literacy project with the Waimiri-Atroari\, a people native to the Brazilian Amazon. Assistant Professor Srdan Keca (Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University) was the invited discussant.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/filmscreening-of-ana-vazs-apiyemiyeki/
LOCATION:Pigott Hall 252
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SUMMARY:Framing Law & Humanities in/from the Global South
DESCRIPTION:Our two-day event “Framing Law and Humanities in/from the Global South” consisted of an opening roundtable and a discussion panel. The first session sought to broaden the horizons of the Law and Humanities critical paradigm\, and the second centered on the juridical personhood of nature\, nonhuman rights\, and the role of cultural production in conceptualizing these problems. \nDay 1: Opening Roundtable – Wednesday\, March 2\, 2022 at 5pm (PST) \nDiana Esther Guzmán Rodríguez\, Associate Professor of Law\, Universidad Nacional de Colombia\nLeila Neti\, Professor of English\, Occidental College\nBeth Piatote\, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Native American Studies\, UC Berkeley\nMarco Wan\, Professor and Director of the Programme in Law and Literary Studies\, University of Hong Kong\nDay 2: The Rights of Nature and the Imagination –  Thursday\, March 3\, 2022 at 5pm (PST) \nAlberto Acosta\, Economist and Political Thinker\, Former Minister of Energy and Mines in Ecuador\nAlyse Bertenthal\, Assistant Professor of Law\, Wake Forest University\nAllison Bigelow\, Associate Professor of Spanish\, University of Virginia \nThis event was co-sponsored by Stanford Global Studies and the Modern Thought & Literature program.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/law-humanities/
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SUMMARY:Extraction & Extinction
DESCRIPTION:Our first event of the Winter quarter featured historian Thomas Moynihan (author of X-Risk (Urbanomic/MIT Press 2020) and Spinal Catastrophism (Urbanomic/MIT Press\, 2019)\, among others) and artist Carolina Caycedo (2020-2022 Inaugural Borderlands Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands-Arizona State University and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics; recent and upcoming solo shows include: Care Report at Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź\, Wanaawna\, Rio Hondo and Other Spirits at Orange County Museum of Art\, Cosmotarrayas at ICA Boston\, From the Bottom of the River at MCA Chicago\, and Carolina Caycedo at the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Newcastle).\nOur speakers discussed the relationship between extraction and extinction in connection with the notion of political ecology. \nThe event took place on Thursday\, February 10\, 2022 at 1pm PST via Zoom.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/extraction-extinction/
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SUMMARY:Engaging the Moche Sex Pots
DESCRIPTION:Our third and last event of the Fall quarter featured Mary J. Weismantel (Anthropology\, Northwestern University) and Peruvian artist Sandra Gamarra. \nOur speakers will discussed Weismantel’s new book Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots (University of Texas Press\, 2021) in connection with Gamarra’s artistic work on Indigenous objects. \nThe event\, co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History and the Stanford Archaeology Center\, will take place TODAY\, November 16 at 12:30pm PST via Zoom.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/moche-sex-pots/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211104T123000
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SUMMARY:Non-Politics and Non-Ecologies
DESCRIPTION:Our second Fall event featured McKenzie Wark (Media and Culture\, Eugene Lang College\, The New School) in conversation with Orlando Bentancor (Spanish and Latin American Cultures\, Barnard College). \nMcKenzie Wark is the author of\, among other things\, Molecular Red (Verso 2015) and Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker (Duke UP 2021). Prof. Wark delivered a talk titled “Non-Politics and Non-Ecologies.” \nOrlando Bentancor is the author of The Matter of Empire: Metaphysics and Mining in Colonial Peru (University of Pittsburgh Press 2017). \nThe event\, co-sponsored by Modern Thought & Literature and Feminist\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, took place on Thursday\, November 4\, 2021 at 12:30pm PST via Zoom.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/non-politics-non-ecologies/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210603T140000
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SUMMARY:Anthropodecentric Writings
DESCRIPTION:In her talk “The Inhuman and the Anarchist: Rafael Barrett’s Anthropodecentric Writings\,” Prof. Jennifer French (Williams College) will be continuing her exploration of the Hispano-Paraguayan anarchist Rafael Barrett (1876-1910) by focusing specifically on the anthropodecentric aspects of his writing. A pre-circulated paper by French on Barrett will provide an overview of his work\, specifically his best-known text\, Lo que son los yerbales [What the Yerbales Are]\, which exposed to Paraguayan and regional audiences the exploitative labor practices associated with the yerba mate industry. \nProf. French’s talk develops her considerations further along two interrelated lines. On the one hand\, she looks specifically at Barrett’s writings about natural and evolutionary science—especially iterations of his newspaper column\, Mirando Vivir (“Looking at Life”)—to see how the boundary-breaking anarchist responds to Darwin’s blurring of the ontological divide between human and non-human species. On the other hand\, French proposes to read Barrett\, and specifically Barrett’s virtuosic prose style\, in dialogue with feminist theorist Elizabeth Grosz\, who writes about aesthetics and Darwin’s theory of sexual selection in her 2011 book Becoming Undone. \nThe talk will be followed by a response by Prof. Javier Uriarte (Stony Brook) and a Q&A open to all participants.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/anthropodecentric-writings/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T140000
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SUMMARY:Discussion: Jameelah Morris & Reagan Ross
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce that our next gathering will be held on Thursday\, May 13 and will feature Jameelah Morris (Anthropology\, Stanford) and Reagan Ross (Communication\, Stanford). \n\n\nOur guest speakers have kindly shared the following description of their talks: \n\n\nJameelah Morris (Anthropology\, Stanford) – “No innocence to be found: On Gendered Anti-black Violence against Black Youth” \n\nIn this presentation\, I ask how gendered-racialized police violence against young Black people scaffolds the production of Cartagena as Colombia’s “paradise”.  I examine how anti-black state violence frustrates normative expectations of genealogical time and how Black youth-led political mobilizations critically problematize “innocence” as both a legitimizing logic of antiblackness and  a constitutive feature of discourses of “the child.”\n\nReagan Ross (Communication\, Stanford) – “Righteous Judge: Coercive Court”\n\nDuring this brief presentation\, I will detail the results of an ethnographic study of the behavior of a problem-solving court judge in a California court. Observations of courtroom interactions and interviews with authority figures in the court\, including the judge\, show that while the judge’s performance often aligns with the principles of therapeutic jurisprudence\, said judge also presents himself as benevolent or stern depending on whether or not he’s speaking with an “ideal” or a “problem” participant. Literature on therapeutic justice addresses coercion within problem-solving courts as necessary to increase compliance with court requirements. The findings presented in this talk will demonstrate that the judge’s performance on the problem-solving court stage contributes to the coercive nature of the court. \nIn preparation for the meeting\, speakers have suggested that attendees peruse the following article: Maria Ximena Abello-Hurtado-Mandinga\, “Black Girl Bodies: Notes on the Legacy of Colonialism in South America and the Urgency of a Black Liberation Project for Black Girls\,” The Black Scholar 50.4 (2020): 18-29.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/discussion-jameelah-morris-reagan-ross/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210415T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210415T133000
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SUMMARY:Women's Contributions to Digital Literacy
DESCRIPTION:The Forgotten History of Operative Writing: Women’s Contributions to Digital Literacy \nSybille Krämer (Aesthetics and Culture of Digital Media\, Leuphana University)\nwith respondent Hank Gerba (Art & Art History\, Stanford) \nWhat does writing mean\, what does ‘script’ mean? Within the framework of the Western alphabetic form of literacy\, the answer is usually: writing is fixed oral language. As a secondary medium related to language\, writing overcomes the boundaries of space and time that apply to oral communication. The assumption that writing refers to spoken language as its reference object is called the >phonocentric doctrine<\, which is an Eurocentric dogma too. My reflections want to decenter and overcome this dogma. \nMy argument is that there are language-independent scripts whose performative dimension consists in operatively producing that which they represent in written\, visual form (written calculation for example). These scripts have an original pictorial dimension\, they are graphic notations with a double function: being both\, a medium for representing something and a tool for operating with what is represented. These operative scripts are symbolic artefacts and at the same time genuine technical devices. \nI would like to explain the history of this language-neutral ‘operative writing’ by means of four stations: How the Muslim scholar Al Chwarizmi (around 800 pC.) transmitted the Indo-Arabic decimal digit system to the Europeans. How Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) wrote the first computer program and did so in the form of a table. How Grace Hopper (1906-1992) invented the compiler for translating texts into machine-readable databases and invented the first commercial programming language\, and how Josephine Miles (1911-1985) realised the first concordance of a literary work with the help of a computer and thus created the first project of the Digital Humanities. \nWe see: It was often women who pioneered operative writing. Therefore\, a techno-feminist movement should be mentioned here: It starts with Donna Haraway’s A CYBORG MANIFESTO in 1985 and continues 30 years later with the XENOFEMINIST MANIFESTO of the collective Laboria Cuboniks in 2015.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/the-forgotten-history-of-operative-writing-womens-contributions-to-digital-literacy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T140000
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SUMMARY:Uncontained Toxicity
DESCRIPTION:What happens when toxicity breaks through its spatial containment? \nHow can a virus contaminate spheres\, bodies\, media\, places and landscapes? \nHow do parasites\, viruses or toxins penetrate\, subvert\, destabilize and/or promote and establish power structures and economic paradigms? \nIn this workshop\, Gisela Heffes & Arndt Niebisch address these questions and highlight how the politics of parasites and toxins irritate and shape contemporary art and media. \nGisela Heffes (Rice University) will address uncontained toxicity in contemporary narratives of Argentina as a discourse of mutation and inoculation that appeals to a toxic semiotic while rendering bodies and spaces phantasmagoric specters. \nArndt Niebisch (Universität Wien) will revisit William S. Burroughs notion of the word virus and discuss how Burroughs subversive media guerilla is taken up by posthuman agents in social media networks. \nSuggested Readings:\nArndt Niebisch: Feedback: Media Parasites and the Circuits of Communication (Dada and Burroughs)\nhttps://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/31/66 \nGisela Heffes: Toxic Nature in Contemporary Argentine Narratives. Contaminated Bodies and Ecomutations\, in Ecofiction and Ecorealities: Slow Violence and the Environment in Latin America and the Hispanic/Latino/a/Latinx World\, eds. Ana Maria Mutis\, Elizabeth Pettinaroli\, and Ilka Kressner (New York: Routledge\, 2019): 55-73.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/uncontained-toxicity/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210128T140000
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SUMMARY:Light\, Matter\, Meat & Flesh
DESCRIPTION:Valeria Meiller (Spanish and Portuguese\, Georgetown)\n\n“Matadero Modelo: Argentine Rural Modernity Seen Through The Slaughterhouse” \nThis work is an examination of the slaughterhouses built by the architect Francisco Salamone in the 1930s as spaces that hold valuable answers to how the meat industry helped shape a nation known worldwide for its meat production and steak culture. \n\nFabián Mosquera (Hispanic Languages and Literatures\, Pittsburgh)\n\n“Pasolini: Fireflies in the Synagogue of The Iconoclasts. Affective Materialism and Poetics of Community in Apocalyptic Times” \nThe firefly (lucciole) constitutes a powerful category within the Pasolinian critical lexicon; its intermittent light embodies the precarious but obstinate production of a political episteme by the homo/femina sacer vis à vis apocalyptic violence. In this talk Mosquera contends that Pasolini’s The Gospel According to Saint Matthew articulates a meta-cinematographic community—as we will see: a cloud of fireflies\, a “synagogue of the iconoclast”—whose affective and poetic materiality prevails over the ruins of sociopolitical devastation.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/light-matter-meat-flesh/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T150000
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SUMMARY:Impolitical Critiques & Decolonial Grammars
DESCRIPTION:María del Rosario Acosta López (UC Riverside)\n\n“Grammars of Listening as Decolonial Grammars: Notes for a Decolonization of Memory” \nThis talk engages in a self-critical reflection on the limits and decolonial potential of the project advanced by the author and entitled ‘grammars of listening’. In the first part\, the author explores the theoretical context that frames said project\, namely\, the analysis of the epistemological and ethical challenges that result from the task of listening to testimonies in working on historical memory. This involves a philosophical inquiry into the concept of traumatic violence as a “colonizing” form of violence. The second part of the talk examines the extent to which the project on grammars of listening holds under the scope of a decolonial look\, and proposes two possible strategies for a “decolonization of listening\,” namely\, the invention of history and the resistance of memory. \n\nTimothy C. Campbell (Cornell University) \n“Politics without Bios: An Impolitical Critique of Biopolitics” \nThinking and writing in a moment of COVID-19 presents some unexpected sights. Horizons that before went unnoticed become visible; oppositions change\, with some terms dominating where others did before. Naturally\, forms of critique change as well. Nowhere has this been less true than in biopolitical reflection\, especially in that sub-genre referred to as Italian Thought. Here is where\, as Bruno Latour might say\, some continue to play at a “caricatured form of the figure of biopolitics.” This state of affairs in which discussions of biopolitics dominate how we understand and talk about life during the pandemic calls for critique. In my talk\, I will be drawing upon an earlier moment of Italian Thought\, referred to as the impolitical\, in order to contest the hegemony of biopolitical reflection. I will be asking after the impolitical possibilities for biopolitics in order to avoid turning politics repeatedly into a quarrel over the status of life.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/impolitical-critiques-decolonial-grammars/
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