Event overview
Futures & Fictions: Visual Cultures Public Programme Autumn 2015
From Site to Plot to Yarn - Robin Mackay (Urbanomic)
Thursday October 1
5.00-7.00pm
Professor Stuart Hall Building LG02
Are practices of site-specificity adequate to the question of the complex, folded relation between local and global? Might the concept of ‘plot’, with its combined sense of narrative and spatial translation, prove more appropriate? Using the tropes from detective fiction and stagecraft, the notions of plot and of the ‘yarnwork’ will be mobilised to explore further the relation of local sites with their global conditions.
Robin Mackay is director of Urbanomic and editor of its journal, Collapse. He has translated a number of works of French philosophy, including Alain Badiou's Number and Numbers, Francois Laruelle's The Concept of Non-Photography and Anti-Badiou and Quentin Meillasoux's The Number and the Siren.
Chair: Simon O'Sullivan
Futures and Fictions explores the political imaginary, the inventing and imaging of alternate narratives and image-worlds that might be pitched against the impasses of the present. The series ranges from future-oriented science fictions and alternative space-time plots to myths and images generated by marginalized and ‘minor’ communities, queer-feminist strategies of fictioning, and the production of new Afro- and other futurisms.
Series Organisers: Henriette Gunkel, Ayesha Hameed & Simon O’Sullivan
The events are free and no booking is required. All welcome
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Oct 2015 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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