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Professor Kélina Gotman:
Energetics,
Energy Humanities and Performance
Wednesday 15th November at 6.00pm
This paper addresses ways of thinking about the interpenetration of energy extraction within a broadly colonial capitalist paradigm and the performative
command to extract energy from oneself in order to perpetuate and indeed to nourish the growth curves that accountability systems and ‘quantification frenzy’ mechanisms perpetually demand. Wrapping current thinking in the broad field of energy humanities in
with close readings of early twentieth-century industrial management and management psychology texts, as well as writings and choreographic practices in somatic health and psychosomatic integration, this paper will meditate on genealogies of energy capture
and the discursive and medical-political ways they have entered institutional as well as some anti- or counter-institutional cultures.
The paper is based on my current book project, which examines early to mid-twentieth-century cultures of performative management psychology, energy
and work.
Kélina Gotman is Professor of Performance and the Humanities at King’s College London.
If you would like to attend, please register in advance via
this Eventbrite page.
Wednesday
15th November 2023 at 6.00pm
In
the main Boardroom at Central
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