Event overview
On the primal scenes, death penalties, sacrifice, revenge, histories, autobiographies and apostrophes at the heart of Lynn Turner’s new book Poetics of Deconstruction.
Lynn Turner and Mariam Motamedi-Fraser (Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths) on the primal scenes, death penalties, sacrifice, revenge, histories, autobiographies and apostrophes at the heart of Turner’s new book Poetics of Deconstruction: on the threshold of differences (Bloomsbury, 2020). In so doing they offer a sense of how the encounter between deconstruction and psychoanalysis generates a scholarly practice inhabiting visual culture.
This event is associated with our Philosophy, Visual Theory, and Political Aesthetics cluster which centres on modern and contemporary thought that bears on the workings of visual culture from a global perspective. Objects of inquiry include aesthetic and cultural practices; radical politics and political thought; racial, feminist, and queer expressions and visibilities; militancy and dissidence; as well as the trajectories of cultures and subcultures. Often engaging with the latest socio-political and economic events, we read, rethink, and often reformulate or put into practice the work of a wide range of western and non-western authors belonging to diverse philosophical practices and theoretical traditions. Within western frameworks, we mainly specialise in the fields of deconstruction, materialism, phenomenology, political theory, critical theory, critical aesthetics, feminist and queer philosophy, and speculative realism. Within non-western traditions, we have specialisms in Post-Colonial theory, African and African-diasporic thought as well as Pakistani and Indian thought.
Biographies
Lynn Turner is the author of Poetics of Deconstruction: on the threshold of differences (2020); co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (2018); editor of The Animal Question in Deconstruction (2013); co-author of Visual Cultures As Recollection (2013) and co-editor of a special issue of parallax called ‘bon appetit’ (2013). She leads the MA in Contemporary Art Theory in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Mariam Motamedi Fraser is the author of Word: Beyond Language, Beyond Image (2017) and Identity without Selfhood: Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality (1999) and the co-editor of Inventive Life: Approaches Towards a New Vitalism (2006) and The Body: A Reader (2006). She is completing a new book called Dog Politics: Individuals, Races, and Species in the Animal Sciences. She teaches two courses on animals, at undergraduate and MA levels, in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Image credit: Kornél Mundruczó (dir.), White God (2014) c. Magnolia Pictures.
This event is part of the Visual Cultures Public Programme Autumn 2020
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 10 Dec 2020 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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