Community events
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Climate Counteraesthetics: Mediating Immediacy in a Blazing World
In the urgent emergency of climate crisis, is there any time for art? Surveying some aesthetic, epistemic, and political deadlocks in debates in the environmental humanities and ecocriticism, this talk proposes that climate counteraesthetics - counterintuitive, counterhegemonic, and counter to the poles of the deadlocks - are both necessary and fun.
Anna Kornbluh is Professor of English and a member of the United Faculty Bargaining Committee at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is the author of four books, including Immediacy, Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism (Verso 2024), as well as essays on contemporary art, tv, academic labor, and psychoanalysis.
Malcolm James is Co-Director of Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies, 麻豆传媒社区入口, UK. He is the author of Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos (Bloomsbury) and Urban Multiculture: Youth, Politics and Cultural Transformation (Palgrave); and co-editor of Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss in East London (Repeater).
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