Event overview
John Paul Ricco outlines a queer ethos of finitude in which both solitude and things affirm time as only ever the time that remains
John Paul Ricco with Jean-Paul Martinon
By looking at the ways in which Denise Riley’s essay, Time Lived, Without Its Flow, and Adania Shibli’s novel, Minor Detail, confront the singularity of death and what of life remains unlivable, and then turning to Dean Sameshima’s photo series, being alone, and zu verschenken (‘to give away’), Ricco begins to outline a queer ethos of finitude in which solitude and things are two principal existential and empirical affirmations of the sense of time as only ever the time that remains.
This event is associated with our 'Philosophy, Visual Theory, and Political Aesthetics' research cluster. Our work in this cluster 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.
Image: Dean Sameshima, being alone , 2020. Courtesy of the artist.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 25 Mar 2021 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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