Online Lecture Series 2021 Abject Lives
Kick-off & Keynote: May 27, 10-12am (UCT +2)
Session I: May 27, 4-6pm
Session II: June 3, 4-6pm
Session III: June 10, 4-6pm
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This lecture series focusses on forms of life that are rendered abject (Kristeva 1982). With this term, we are referring to living beings that rarely become subject to moral considerations or human sympathy. Abject lives regularly provoke repulsion, disgust or simple indifference. Drawing on Agamben’s (1998) notion of a biopolitical threshold, we suggest that abject lives shed new light on the ways in which sovereign power and abjection are expressed in more-than-human worlds – and also challenged in unexpected ways.
The lecture series will be held online via the video conference platform Cisco Webex.
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