Event overview
Ewa Domanska will speak about her current book project: "Necros: Introduction to an Ontology of the Dead Body".
The purpose of this book is to return the bodies of the dead and human remains to our conscious concerns and liberate them from abjection, horror and necrophiliac desires, on the one hand, and the sublimation, romanticisation and necroaesthetics to which they have been subjected of late, on the other.
Contemporary culture typically treats the dead as an anomaly; and indeed - for many - death is an “abnormal” condition.
Contrary to this view, Domanska claims that the dead (body) is not only a pervasive but a normal aspect of our environment. She explores this within the framework of the emerging multidisciplinary field of dead body studies, ecological humanities and posthumanities, as well as contemporary interest in the distinction between the human and non-human. Studying these phenomena requires a change in the interpretative framework and a theoretical shift towards a new materialism which focuses on the agentive aspect of matter, a new empiricism interested in what is called “flat” ontologies that concentrate on associations, connectivity, networks, entanglements, and assemblages, and a new vitalism which seeks to endow matter with specific force of life.
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Please contact Lorenzo Pezzani for the the reading if you wish to attend this event which is firstly a PhD seminar for the Centre for Research Architecture that we open for other interested attendees from time-to-time.
Dates & times
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24 Feb 2012 | 1:30pm - 5:30pm |
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