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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/
LOCATION:Pigott Hall 252
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230112T133000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221117T120000
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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/
LOCATION:Pigott Hall 252
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221020T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221020T133000
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220929T133000
DTSTAMP:20221028T213758Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220302T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T190000
DTSTAMP:20220327T195405Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T140000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T140000
DTSTAMP:20220327T194124Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211104T140000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201001T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201001T140000
DTSTAMP:20210702T161842Z
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SUMMARY:Money & War
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce that materia’s sixth year will kick off with a discussion on Money & War led by PhD Candidates Colin Drumm (History of Consciousness\, UC Santa Cruz) and Harleen Kaur Bagga (Art History\, Stanford). \nColin and Harleen have shared the following descriptions of their brief talks: \n\nDrumm (History of Consciousness\, UC Santa Cruz) \n“Sovereign Servility” \nThis talk will discuss monetary politics and the limitations of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). The discussion will be framed within a dissertation project on the topic of monetary history and political philosophy\, with a focus on Mediterranean antiquity and early modern England. \n\nHarleen Kaur Bagga (Art History\, Stanford)\n\n“To Besiege is To Be Besieged: The Vertiginous Views of Peter Snayers’ Battle Paintings” \nPeter Snayers’ topographic-analytical battle paintings present scenes from the long Eighty Years’ War. This presentation examines the twofold nature of Snayers’ treatment of map-like landscapes in his Siege of Breda. Even as the lands are shown to be transformed\, conquered\, and thereby wounded\, they stretch upward to the cosmos\, looming precipitously over the troops\, besieging rather than being besieged. \nIn preparation for our virtual gathering\, we suggest the reading of the following short texts: Stephan Oettermann’s The Panorama. History of a Mass Medium (1997) and Shakespeare’s Richard II (1597) (Act one\, scene IV\, and Act two\, scene I).
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/money-war/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T160500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T180000
DTSTAMP:20210521T064834Z
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SUMMARY:Post-Naturalist Fictions
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, May 11th at 5pm\, doctoral candidates Daniel Hernández (ILAC\, Stanford) and Sebastián Figueroa (Hispanic and Portuguese Studies\, UPenn) will be discussing their research in progress and leading our discussion on the theme of Post-Naturalist Fictions: Representations of Capital and Forest in Colombia and Brazil. \nPresenters have kindly shared the following descriptions of their talks: \n\nDaniel Hernández (Stanford)\, “Mário de Andrade\, Apprentice Ethnographer: Redrawing Fiction by Means of a Kodak” \nI examine Mário de Andrade’s travelogue O turista aprendiz and its cognate photographic archive within a broader trove of visual and ethnographic materials from the Amazon. De Andrade’s 1927 Amazon expedition was key for transforming his subsequent fiction writing –particularly his novel Macunaíma (1928). I argue that the Kodak camera provided him with new ways to perceive the Amazonian world\, beyond the more traditional naturalist model. These new perspectives oriented him to reflect about his own position as a modern metropolitan author and to redraw the limits between fact and fiction within both his narrative and ethnographic work. \n\nSebastián Figueroa (UPenn)\, “The Return of the Plantation”\n\nI discuss the return of the plantation form in some contemporary Latin American novels as a result of the expansion of monocrop agribusiness\, whose appropriation of land and agricultural production\, as Vandana Shiva maintains\, entails the appropriation of life by capital. Focusing particularly on Juan Cárdenas’ El diablo de las provincias (2017)\, I analyze the role of conspiracy narratives to understand how the plantation is a violent machine that brings about the material\, the social\, and the political to take over the world and preclude any future other than that of the capitalist regime \n\nAs mentioned above\, the meeting will take place next Monday\, May 11th at 5pm (via Zoom). \nTo receive the link to the meeting\, please RSVP here. \nFor more information\, please email rwain@stanford.edu
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/post-naturalist-fictions/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200127T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200127T193000
DTSTAMP:20210702T163205Z
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SUMMARY:Secrecy and Virtuality
DESCRIPTION:PIGOT HALL (B260)\, ROOM 216. \nWe are pleased to announce that on Monday\, January 27th at 6pm we will be joined by Juan Esteban Plaza (Iberian and Latin American Cultures) and Jason Beckman (East Asian Languages and Cultures) for a discussion on their ongoing research. The theme of this upcoming event will be Secrecy and Virtuality. \nJason and Juan Esteban have shared the following descriptions of their talks: \n  \n\nJason Beckman (EALC\, Stanford) \n“Virtualizing You\, Actualizing Otherness” \nIs it possible to be “present” in a work of literature? Though the novel as a genre often precludes the reader’s presence in the world of the text\, virtual reality by contrast assumes the presence of the user in the virtual world. By examining the reader’s encounter with the “you” that appears in second person fiction as an embodied experience\, it becomes possible to transcend the conventional fictional barrier between text and reader. The resulting reading methods provide insight into the fictional mechanics of contemporary authors such as Tawada Yōko and Furukawa Hideo\, who invoke the second person pronoun to insert readers into unfamiliar and\, at times\, unsettling circumstances. Moments of virtual Otherness become embodied experiences\, and the medium of immersive VR provides essential tools for understanding how the reader might actualize textual experience and step into the “you” who appears in the text. \n\nJuan Esteban Plaza (ILAC\, Stanford) \n“Major and Minor Conspiracies. Rethinking Secret Communities and Communications” \nIn our current techno-political conditions\, little space is left for interactions that could not eventually be surveilled by an exterior observer. We live under the impression that all private and secret aspects of our existence are available\, while various figures of conspiracy pervade popular culture and media. In this occasion\, I would like to explore the ambivalence expressed by the conspiratorial imagery. If\, on the one hand\, it offers condensed representations of the global bio-technical power\, on the other hand\, it epitomizes an extensive desire for community. What is the long history of grassroots practices of secrecy that could allow us to imagine networks of solidarity and resistance? Can art be a model for such practices and the other way around? Centering on processes of translation across media\, I read the works of a group of Latin American transmedia artists to show the convergences between modern art and communal ways of life. \n\n  \nAs mentioned above\, the meeting will take place next Monday\, January 27th at 5.45pm (discussion will begin at 6pm) in Pigott Hall (Building 260)\, Room 216. \nDinner and wine will be served. RSVP here (encouraged but not required). \nFor more information\, email rwain@stanford.edu
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/materia-secrecy-and-virtuality/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200124T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200124T193000
DTSTAMP:20210702T163018Z
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SUMMARY:Asynchronous Avant-Gardes
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce on Monday\, February 24\, 2020 at 6 pm we will be joined by Professors Chad Wellmon (German Studies\, University of Virginia) and Justin Read (Spanish and Portuguese\, University at Buffalo) for a session about knowledge\, search\, and the self-actualization of technology. The theme of this upcoming event will be Asynchronous Avant-gardes. \nProfessors Wellmon and Read have shared the following descriptions of their talks: \nChad Wellmon (German Studies\, University of Virginia) \n“Googling Before Google: Notes on a History of Search” \nGoogle did not invent search. In this presentation\, Chad Wellmon probes and historicizes the origins of searching in German romanticism and beyond\, leading to a critique of contemporary techno-Utopianism. \nJustin Read (Spanish and Portuguese\, University at Buffalo) \n“Death Programs: In-Forming the Borderzone” \nFollowing Vilém Flusser’s observations about the increasing self-actualization of technology\, in this presentation Justin Read reads Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera’s Señales que precederán al fin del mundo [Signs preceding the end of the world\, 2009] as a cartography of programmed reality along contemporary borderlands.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/materia-asynchronous-avant-gardes/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191104T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191104T193000
DTSTAMP:20210702T162841Z
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SUMMARY:Borders & Technology
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL (B260\, RM. 216) \nOn Monday\, November 4th at 5:45pm we will be joined by Professor Micah Donohue (ENMU) and by Professor Tom McEnaney (UC Berkeley). The theme of this upcoming event will be “Borders & Technology”. \nProfessors Donohue and McEnaney have shared the following descriptions of their talks: \nMicah Donohue (ENMU)\n“Between the Imagined and the Real: Revelation\, Apocalypse\, and Virtual Literature in Borges\, Saramago\, and Le Guin”\nThis talk explores the virtual in “virtual literature” through readings of interconnected texts by three authors: Jorge Luis Borges\, José Saramago\, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Drawing on these authors\, as well as from philosophers of the virtual (Bergson\, Deleuze\, Lévy)\, in this talk I discuss how virtual literature constitutes a definitive generic territory within what Le Guin—in an essay about Borges—called “the vast domain of fantastic literature.” What differentiates virtual literature from science fiction\, fantasy\, utopian/dystopian literature\, magic realism\, and other neighboring and overlapping categories of speculative fiction\, is virtual literature’s apocalyptic and allegorical attention to the “ordinary” and “everyday” not as a site of solutions or answers\, but as a “problematic field” (to use Pierre Lévy’s suggestive phrase) of proliferating questions and challenges. \nTom McEnaney (UC Berkeley)\n“Revolution 2.0: Art\, Activism\, Architecture\, and Digital Infrastructure in Havana”\nHow has digital infrastructure in Cuba–from the hand-to-hand model of the internet (el paquete) to its national versions of social media–transformed the Revolutionary purpose of the material and symbolic commons? How have artists and writers reimagined the commons–as counterpublic\, undercommons\, or otherwise–in relation to this digital media? And how do contemporary interventions into the commons from planners and artists like Jorge Enrique Lage or Tania Bruguera build on previous theories and practices of urban space in Havana\, from Alejo Carpentier and Severo Sarduy to Pedro Martíntez Inclán\, Mario Coyula\, or Roberto Segre? This talk will explore these questions at the intersection of art\, architecture\, and online life in Cuba’s capital city. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the School of Humanities and Sciences and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. \nContact Email:\nrwain@stanford.edu
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/borders-technology/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191007T193000
DTSTAMP:20210702T162717Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Discussion: New Extractivisms
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL (BUILDING 260)\, ROOM 216 \nWe are thrilled to anounce that we will be discussing new extractivisms for our first meeting of the term 2019-2020. We will base our discussion on Verónica Gago and Sandro Mezzadra’s article “A Critique of the Extractive Operations of Capital: Toward an Expanded Concept of Extractivism”. \nThe meeting will take place on Monday\, October 7th at 5.45pm (discussion will begin at 6pm) in Pigott Hall\, Room 216. \nIf you have any questions\, please email rwain@stanford.edu
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/reading-discussion-new-extractivisms/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190506T174500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190506T193000
DTSTAMP:20210817T225321Z
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SUMMARY:Nature vs. Culture?
DESCRIPTION:Levi Bryant\, Professor of Philosophy (Collin College) \n\n\n“Thinking the Wilderness” \n\n\nThis talk proposes what I call ‘Wilderness Ontology’. The central claim of wilderness ontology is that the wilderness is all there is. Regardless of whether you are in a remote\, uninhabited region of Svaerholt\, Norway or the heart of Los Angeles\, California\, you are in the wilderness. As such\, wilderness ontology calls for us to rethink the pre-modern nature/culture\, phusis/techne distinction that governs our thinking of nature and culture. If culture is of the wilderness\, then we can no longer think of nature as a place to which one might go outside of the city. As a consequence\, we discover that ecology no longer signifies the study of something outside of society\, but that society itself is ecological through and through. \n\n\n  \n\n\nCristina Rivera Garza\, William H. Bonsall Visting Professor in the Humanities (Stanford University)  \n\n\n“A Domestic Archeology of Repatriation” \n\n\nIn my forthcoming book Autobiography of Cotton\, I interweave my family history with an appraisal of the objects that tell the story of the circular migration between Mexico and the United States: tents\, furniture\, mattresses\, home goods\, sausages\, suits\, ribbons\, and watermelons\, among others. Part creative exploration and part critical discussion\, my talk engages with Manuel De Landa’s theorizations about the scales of the non/human\, providing an alternative view from the ground. In this presentation\, the Border emerges as an intimate\, cultural\, and ecological phenomenon. \n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Unruly Heritage Project/UiT – The Arctic University of Norway and by the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University. \n\n\nIn preparation for the discussion\, we suggest the reading of the following short pieces (attached to this message): “Knots: Notes for a Daemonic Naturalism” (2016) by Levi Bryant and a selection from The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster (2009) by Jalal Toufic.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/nature-vs-culture/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190415T174500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190415T190000
DTSTAMP:20210702T163037Z
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SUMMARY:Queerness\, Hybridity\, Unfolding
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL\, 216 \nWe are thrilled to announce a reading discussion led by Evan Alterman (Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Alberto Quintero (Modern Thought & Literature). \nEvan will discuss hybrid language\, space\, and temporality in Vladimir Korolenko’s “Makar’s Dream” as a reflection of Korolenko as a product of empire and as an authorial technique establishing moral relativism between narrator and reader. Alberto will address Severo Sarduy’s Baroque theory of transvestism as a method of simulation that does not seek to imitate gender\, but the complete dissolution of the self. In preparation for our discussion\, please read the following short pieces (attached to this message): Vladimir Korolenko’s “Makar’s Dream” (1883) and excerpts from Severo Sarduy’s Simulation (1989). \nThe meeting will take place next Monday\, April 15th at 5.45pm (discussion will begin at 6pm) in Pigott Hall 216. Cheese & wine will be served.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/materia-queerness-hybridity-unfolding/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190211T174500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190211T200000
DTSTAMP:20210521T063431Z
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SUMMARY:Collectionism: From Life to Dust
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL RM:216 \nWe have the pleasure to announce that for our last event of this Winter series\, we will be joined by Professors Samuel Frederick\, Associate Professor of German at Penn State and Felipe Martínez-Pinzón\, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University. They shared the following description of their talks: \nDust. Collecting. Glauser. \nParticulate matter such as dust\, ash\, and powder make for intransigent collectables. In the first place\, what value could such near-microscopic material possibly have\, even to the most eccentric of collectors? Furthermore\, dust exists on the threshold of tangibility. We struggle to dispose of it\, let alone collect it. It is in fact dust itself that does the collecting (on our things); we merely contribute to its continued proliferation. Our futile attempts to rid our interiors of dust only lead to its re-distribution\, its dispersal back into the environment. These tendencies of dust to gather and scatter make it an especially fruitful case study for the limits of collecting. This talk tests these limits by looking at how dust appears in the form of material evidence in the crime fiction of the Swiss modernist Friedrich Glauser (1896–1938). Here\, what is so small and ubiquitous as to be immaterial (in both senses) suddenly takes on enormous significance. The detective’s attempted gathering and preservation of dust as evidence\, however\, ultimately calls into question what it means to collect—but in doing makes possible a renewed conceptualization of this paradoxical activity. (Samuel Frederick) \nPatricians in Contention: Sketches of Manners and the Production of a People in Latin America \nThe so-called “costumbrismo” has been read as a genre that conveys post-war’s everyday life and boredom\, and assembles national peoples in detailed series of laboring types. Critics of these collections of sketches have wondered at the “inexplicable contrast” between “the peaceful and inert” society represented by them and the “political violence that marks the [19th] century” (Terán Navas). However\, when we read these sketches in the context of the State’s growing control over frontier zones during a time of liberal reforms and civil wars\, sketches of manners emerge as a vehicle to produce everyday life for the sake of the writers’ political agendas. I read these visual and literary sketches\, not as the product of a peaceful people\, but as sites of contention in which Post-Independence elites –what I call Patricians– waged a war to legitimize themselves as the representatives of pacified populations. (Felipe Martínez-Pinzón)
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/collectionism-from-life-to-dust/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190124T174000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190124T190000
DTSTAMP:20210521T063255Z
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SUMMARY:Traces: On Lines\, Memory\, and Threads. Reading Discussion on January 24th
DESCRIPTION:BUILDING 260 PIGOTT HALL ROOM 252 \nWe are thrilled to announce a reading discussion led by María Gloria Robalino (Comparative Literature) and Tyler Bonnen (Psychology). María Gloria will comment on the series “Siluetas”\, by the multidisciplinary Cuban artist Ana Mendieta\, while Tyler will address the neurobiology of memory and its relations to animal behavior. In preparation for the discussion\, please read the following pieces attached to this message: Tim Ingold’s “Transformations of the Line: Traces\, Threads and Surfaces”\, and Howard Eichenbaum’s “Memory Systems”.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/traces-on-lines-memory-and-threads/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T190000
DTSTAMP:20210521T063042Z
CREATED:20210521T062939Z
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SUMMARY:Bartleby or the Bacchae? A Feminist Theory of Refusal
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL (BLD 260) RM.216 \n“Where’s your spine?” we often say to those who seem to lack moral ‘backbone.’ How do such vertical metaphors limit and drive our imagination of refusal? Drawing on Adriana Cavarero’s work\, Inclination\, this lecture develops a postural analysis of refusal in the Antigone\, the Bacchae\, Thoreau’s “Walking”\, and Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Madonna. Cavarero promotes inclination (the leaning in posture of maternal care) as the preferred posture for her ethics and politics. This lecture pluralizes the feminist subject position of inclination to include sorority\, as well\, and argues that the refusals we find in maternal and sororal care express not only love or care but rage\, and promise not only the holding of community but also the dismemberment of revolution/new beginning.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/bartleby-or-the-bacchae/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181029T190000
DTSTAMP:20210521T062859Z
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SUMMARY:Surfaces: On Van Gogh and Posthumanism
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL (BLD 206) RM. 216 \nReading discussion led by Romina Wainberg (Iberian and Latin American Cultures) and Helen Krueger (Art History). \nIn preparation for the discussion\, please read: David Roden’s “The Disconnection Thesis” and David Gervais’ “On Paint and the Paint Scenes”. Optionally\, you are encouraged to read Sjaar van Heugten’s “The Colors of Night: Technical and Stylistic Aspects of Van Gogh’s Night Scenes” and a literary selection including pieces by Jorge Luis Borges\, Sebastián Robles and Marcelo Cohen.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/surfaces-on-van-gogh-and-posthumanism/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181004T174500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181004T190000
DTSTAMP:20210521T062609Z
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SUMMARY:Art and History of the Digital Divide
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL (BLDG. 260)\, RM. 216 \nOrit Halpern\, Concordia University \nThe Planetary Bet \nVolatility –extremes of high and low\, temporal scales between the geological and digital\, varying thresholds of toxicity\, safety\, poverty- these are the differentials that in contemporary societies are the very mediums for financial speculation and ubiquitous computing. This talk will examine how concepts of resilience from ecology\, ideas of systems management from cybernetics and design\, and algorithmic investment strategies from finance merged to produce both a contemporary mode of disaster speculation that I label “the planetary bet” and an affective sentiment of “resilient hopefulness”. \n\nAndrés Burbano\, U. de los Andes \n“The Fountain of Prosperity” and Fotoformas: Art\, Technology and Early Computation in Latin America \nTwo fields of study converge in this talk. On the one hand\, there is the research about the history of media technologies that were proposed or developed in Latin America and their impact in the art world. On the other\, the history of early computing –the formative years. My presentation makes the case for intersecting these domains in promising new ways.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/art-and-history-of-the-digital-divide/
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SUMMARY:Re-Assemblage: Theory\, Practice\, Form
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL (RM. 216)\nFREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC \nProfessor Bill Brown from The University of Chicago\, will be giving his lecture\, “Re-Assemblage: Theory\, Practice\, Form”. In recent years\, Professor Brown has been working at the intersection of literary\, visual\, and material cultures\, with an emphasis on “object relations in an expanded field”\, examining how inanimate objects enable human subjects (individually and collectively) to form and transform themselves—and indeed how objects and subjects transform one another. The “Re-Assemblage” project revolves around the question of how assemblage practices (across the literary\, visual\, and plastic arts) might contribute to assemblage theory in the social sciences. Bill Brown is the author of a number of groundbreaking books on material culture and object theory. Professor Lea Pao\, from the Department of German Studies\, will be responding.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/re-assemblage-theory-practice-form/
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SUMMARY:Feminist Aesthetics and the Posthuman
DESCRIPTION:PIGOTT HALL (RM. 216)\nFREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC \nChloe Rutter-Jensen\, Universidad de los Andes\nHuman Elements of the “Periodic Table”: Delcy Morelos and Posthumanism \nCurrent “cultural” products in the contact zone we call Colombia are a stimulating place to challenge the human as center of the universe. Morelos’s work\, her co-creations\, or better yet reconfigurations\, consistently undertake becoming and undoing. In particular\, she undoes the fiction of the self-generative subject\, that subject which can invent HIMself no matter what its conditions. My talk explores how Morelos’ posthumanist creations help us understand how “we are all in this together”. \nPatricia Valderrama\, Stanford University\nWe’re Going Extinct! Animal Arts for the Anthropocene \nAll species\, including our own\, are confronting a qualitatively different existential crisis in the form of anthropogenic climate change\, which includes the possibility of human extinction within the next eighty years. In this talk\, I will consider what literature can do\, beyond mimetic representation\, to help us face the multispecies challenges the next decades and centuries will surely bring. Putting Nietzsche’s aesthetics in conversation with materialist\, environmental\, and decolonial feminisms\, I try to use a certain kind of literature to chart a way forward and through\, but not out of\, the grief and dread of the sixth mass extinction.
URL:https://materia.stanford.edu/event/feminist-aesthetics-and-the-posthuman/
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