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On Affective Infrastructure: Affects, Time and Labour in Cultural and Knowledge Production and Social Activism
In this lecture I will deal with the ways in which we are to analyze the category of affective infrastructure at the interstices between cultural production, social activism and knowledge production. My focus is on the question of emancipatory politics in the context of omnipresent governance of trauma and poverty, analyzing the potentials, challenges and deadlocks for such politics within the triad betwen art, academia and activism. I frame this complex problematic in terms of thinking anew the knots betwen time, labour and affect when it comes to resisting the symptoms of alienation, privatisation, extraction and exploitation. Relevant examples from the context of neocolonial and neoliberal regimes operative Bosnia and Herzegovina and former Yugoslavia will be used to demonstrate the challenges for affective (and other types of) infrastructure necessary for political protest and social change universally.
Jasmina Husanović is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She earned her PhD in 2003 at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. Her research interests and publications are in the field cultural and political theory dealing with the politics of witnessing, equality and solidarity, governance of life and culture of trauma, as well as emancipatory politics in the intersecting public spaces of cultural and knowledge production (critical pedagogies in art, academia and activism). She is involved in various international interdisciplinary platforms concerned with common goods and transformative social change.
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| 27 Jan 2020 | 5:30pm - 8:00pm |
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