Seminar Six:
Nondisciplinarity, Multielementalism, and More-than-Human Livingness
Speaker:
Professor Dimitris Papadopoulos, joining us online from University of California, Santa Cruz.
The tragedy of geo-ecology is that across nearly the entire political spectrum, its concerns have been deferred to an imagined future. Its resolution is either subsumed within the promise of a post-capitalist order or delegated to human ingenuity that will deliver a technofix. Or it is just erased altogether by a reductive and blatant humanism. In these conditions, is more-than-human thought and experience possible? What are the methodological and practical conditions that would allow us to ask the question of more-than-human livingness?
About the speaker: Dimitris Papadopoulos is a transdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of science and technology studies, social theory, cultural and visual studies, and the environmental humanities. He is Professor of History of Consciousness in the History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz and is currently completing a monograph entitled A Theory of Substance. Seeking Non-Toxic Livingness (University of Minnesota Press). Most recent books include Ecological Reparation. Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict (Bristol UP, 2024); Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice (Duke UP, 2021); Experimental Practice. Technoscience, Alterontologies and More-Than-Social Movements (Duke UP, 2018).