After Autonomy
Nevertheless, we believe that any philosophical reflection that aspires to formulate radical alternatives to racial capitalism and colonial modernity needs to be based upon a reconsideration of the an/aesthetic, the un/sensible, and the im/perceptible. In focusing on these concepts, we not only wish to explore the oppressive grammar of Western aesthetics that excluded myriads of aesthetic practitioners and deemed their practices as unaesthetic or insensible. We also suggest reinventing aesthetic relationality as a broader and thoroughly political issue, which in turn demands a reframing of the concept of politics by including non-autonomous, disseminated, or fugitive practices, the excess of affects and percepts, the invention of minoritarian archives, and the world’s multiple temporalities and spatialities. The aim of our conference is to discuss articulations of a minor aesthetic that draws on poststructuralist Marxisms and affect theories as well as queer feminist, decolonial, and Black radicalisms, and connects them in ever singular constellations that defy totalizing closures or universalizations from above. No registration necesessary. Organized by Katja Diefenbach, Çiğdem Inan, Ruth Sonderegger, and Pablo Valdivia Orozco.
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