Event overview
A public lecture by Patricia MacCormack
Pedagogy is changing fast, not only due to the current plague years but also due to rethinking interspecies relations as a result of the detrimental effect human exploitation is causing. The compulsory and complex affects of our interspecies belonging on the Earth is currently navigated by the anthropocentric human privileging impulses of semiocapitalism. Other epistemes - from science to arts- are deferred to their profitability. A turn to ahuman artistry disavows this semiocapitalism. We must enter becoming-witch, to claim the prioritising of arts and humanities in the decentring of Earth occupancy from human to ahuman. We must instigate occult practices of pedagogy - creativity first, alterations of patterns of pleasure which explode patterns of power, belief without dogma, hope without goal.
Patricia MacCormack is Professor of Continental Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University. She is the author of Cinesexuality (Routledge 2008) and Posthuman Ethics (Routledge 2012) and the editor of The Animal Catalyst (Bloomsbury 2014), Deleuze and the Animal (EUP 2017), Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema (Continuum 2008), Ecosophical Aesthetics (Bloomsbury 2018) and The Ahuman Manifesto: Activisms for the End of the Anthropocene (2020). Her newest book Death Activism, published by Bloomsbury, explores how we can develop a 'death activism' – a variety of tactics and posthuman practices which celebrate death, its inevitability, its forms, from the slow to times of crisis, and how trauma and mourning emerge as their own forms of expression.
Dates & times
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| 22 May 2025 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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