This year, Critical Studies research fellow Olya Korsun organises a series of seminars to collectively map out and question the contours and layers of ecological imaginaries through the study of eco-critical theory and experimental/queer/world cinema.
We will open up the second meeting with the question: «How can we even talk about imagination without reviving the spectre of human exceptionalism?»*
What if instead of imagining new worlds we could learn to imagine the existing ones differently and celebrate the coming-to-an-end of human/language/Western – centred imaginaries?
Guided by the lines from Federico Campagna and films by Ana Vaz, Renée Nader Messora, João Salaviza we will look at how worlds are built and left in ruins and how Magic can be transformed from incurable disease into a tool for world-making.
Open to students and alumni of all departments, no preparation is required.
Suggested readings:
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hiwcSRnbBnUvOxmiQ9Ew_Rk8m0hYUSmJ
(not compulsory but if you are curious)
* ‘Imagining for Real Essays on Creation, Attention and Correspondence’ by Tim Ingold.
What if instead of imagining new worlds we could learn to imagine the existing ones differently and celebrate the coming-to-an-end of human/language/Western – centred imaginaries?
Guided by the lines from Federico Campagna and films by Ana Vaz, Renée Nader Messora, João Salaviza we will look at how worlds are built and left in ruins and how Magic can be transformed from incurable disease into a tool for world-making.
Open to students and alumni of all departments, no preparation is required.
Suggested readings:
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hiwcSRnbBnUvOxmiQ9Ew_Rk8m0hYUSmJ
(not compulsory but if you are curious)
* ‘Imagining for Real Essays on Creation, Attention and Correspondence’ by Tim Ingold.
research group
Critical Inquiry
Critical Inquiry
