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Maybe of interest - This Wed. All welcome. No need to book. ash 'Sediments and Arrhythmias: race, sense and sensation' seminar series *The Remains of Race: Interrupting Aesthetics/Blackness/Postcolonial Mourning * *Ashwani Sharma* Mar 01, 2017 5:00 PM Location: IAS Common Ground, Ground Floor, South Wing, Wilkins Building, University College London, Gower Street London, WC1E 6B https://www.ucl.ac.uk/…/sediments-and-arrhythmias-race-sens…[1] All this is certainly both an old and yet a new horizon for thought – immanence as both limit and becoming – here understood from that atopic non-place far beyond the thought of death as a form otherwise than being. - Nahum Chandler Ashes or cinders are obviously traces…‘cinder’ renders better what I meant to say with the name of trace, namely, something that remains without remaining, which is neither present, nor absent, which destroys itself, which is totally consumed, which is a remainder without remainder. That is, something which is not. - Jacques Derrida Archives, memories, ghosts, ruins have been privileged concepts in the theoretical practice of contemporary global art and screen media. This talk interrogates temporality, subjectivity and black/postcolonial aesthetics in the present moment of urban and geo-political crisis, with a focus on loss, finitude and death. By examining specific post- conceptual audio-visual forms – the music video, essay film and quotidian photography – the cultural politics of memory, mourning, tragedy and history are readdressed. The talk speculates on the ‘remains of race’, of surviving, living on, resisting in the contemporary for post-slavery blackness and utopian futurity, and postcolonial, planetary justice ‘yet-to-come’. The aesthetics and ethics of everyday social life, the autobiographical, diaspora and the ‘end of the world’ are traced beyond the traumas of the onto-theology of Eurocentric modernity and gendered racial being. This perhaps romantic project invites (self)reflections on the (im)possibility of aesthetic critique and education, fugitive black thought and post/de/colonial criticism in a time of institutional erasures, neoliberal biopolitical violence and digital info-capitalism. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/…/sediments-and-arrhythmias-race-sens… Ashwani Sharma Principal Lecturer in Media and and Cultural Studies School of Arts and Digital Industries University of East London Docklands Campus 4-6 University Way London E16 2RD Tel: (+44) (0)20 8223 2761[2]/2743 e.mail: [log in to unmask] Centre for Cultural Studies Research (CCSR) <_ http://culturalstudiesresearch.org/_> Co-editor - darkmatter Journal <www.darkmatter101.org> Blog: tabula rasa https://tabularasa0.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @ashdisorient Links: 1. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/ias-events/sediments-and-arrhythmias-race-sense-sensation-seminar-february-2017 2. tel:020%208223%202761 -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------