Organisers: Jennifer Gabrys, Marsha Rosengarten, Martin Savransky & Alex Wilkie. Once exclusively confined to the conjectural practices of armchair philosophers and seers, the notion of ‘speculation’ is now increasingly present as an approach signalling toward uncertain or possible futures. Not only does it characterise some of the practices performed in financial markets that are now […]
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‘Emergency’ for Militarised Violence: Visual Modes of Inquiry
Annie Pfingst in conversation with Samah Saleh and Marsha Rosengarten Abstract In this workshop I want to introduce a discussion that will trace and present the visual as both a methodology, part of a dynamic interdisciplinary spatial, visual, archival and theoretical practice of inquiry, as well as a photographic recording of a series of encounters. […]
Fieldwork as a Technique of Existence
with Todd Meyers (Wayne State University) and Sophie Day (Goldsmiths) Techniques of Return Todd Meyers, Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University, USA The question of return––which isn’t really a question at all but rather an act requiring, and facilitated by, some previous knowledge, condition, or inhabitance––is deceptively simple and conceptually fraught. I recently returned to […]
Interpreting a Grimace of Fear in the Context of Play: between Bowlby and Deleuze
Robbie Duschinsky Chair: Monica Greco, Department Sociology, Goldsmiths. Respondent: Patricio Rojas, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths. View a paper by Patricio Rojas here: Rojas, P – The Uses of Attachement (PDF download) This seminar will critically explore the politics of knowledge in contemporary attachment theory, with a focus on the status of ‘disorganised/disoriented’ child behaviours recorded […]
Experimental Entanglements: Re-thinking the dynamics of interaction across the social sciences and neurosciences
With Des Fitzgerald (King’s College London) & Felicity Callard (Durham University) Chaired by Monica Greco In this paper we offer an account of the dynamics of interaction across the social sciences and neurosciences, and we work to re-imagine what those dynamics can and should look like. In particular, we call for a more expansive imaginary […]
Speculative Research and Practice: Workshop with Steven Shaviro
Convened by Jennifer Gabrys Speculative approaches to research and practice are emerging across multiple fields as a way to develop not simply descriptive engagements with topics, but rather to make propositions that invent new possibilities for research and practice. What types of speculation specifically materialize across these approaches, and what differences or similarities might be […]