After 2 years of hard work, the After Progress digital exhibition has now launched! A companion to the After Progress (2022) monograph, published by The Sociological Review, the After Progress Digital Exhibition is the result of a multiplicity of collective efforts to weave together collaborative and multimedia forms of storytelling that might help us envisage ways […]
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Beyond Reason: Postcolonial Theory and the Social Sciences
Beyond Reason: Postcolonial Theory and the Social Sciences A Roundtable Tue 15th June, 5.30-7.30pm GMTZoom Event. All Welcome. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-reason-postcolonial-theory-and-the-social-sciences-tickets-153684363067 In this bold and ambitious new book, Beyond Reason: Postcolonial Theory and the Social Sciences (Oxford University Press, 2021), Sanjay Seth maintains that while the knowledge disseminated by universities and mobilized by states to […]
Atacameño Geologies: Subterranean Pluralities and Extractivist Un-Worlding in the Atacama Saltflat
Atacameño Geologies: Subterranean Pluralities and Extractivist Un-Worlding in the Atacama Saltflat Manuel Tironi (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Thursday 20th May 2021, 5-7pm GMTOnline Event | ZoomPlease Register with Eventbrite here: https://tinyurl.com/ybuffn4f In the Salar de Atacama, northern Chile, different forms of doing and knowing geology meet. In this talk, Manuel Tironi reflects on the […]
Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World
Wednesday 3rd February 2021 | 5.30-7pm GMTOnline Talk @ ZoomPlease register with Eventbrite here: https://tinyurl.com/y55g58n6 Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World Jairus V. Grove (University of Hawai’i) In this talk Jairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage Ecology he offers an ecological […]
After Progress | Digital Exhibition | Call for Stories!
Due to the overwhelming interest in this call, we have extended the deadline to 1st February 5pm GMT! How to reimagine human and more-than-human arts of living and flourishing from the ruins of the modern idea of progress? What would counter-progressive stories sound like? What would they read like? What might earthbound, collaborative forms of storytelling […]
The Possibilities and Limits of Experimentation in the Anthropocene
Wed 2nd December 2020, 5-7pm GMTONLINE TALKPlease register via Eventbrite here The Possibilities and Limits of Experimentation in the AnthropoceneStephanie Wakefield (Life University) This talk will draw on resilience ecology’s adaptive cycle to suggest that liberal societies have left the Anthropocene’s ‘front loop’ and entered its ‘back loop,’ a period of collapse, chaos, and reorientation, in which not only populations and climates are […]