Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
@ Pembroke Hall, Room 305 // note: not totally sure if this is open to the public? // Eric A. Stanley is an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In this talk, Stanley will speak about their recent book, Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable (Duke 2021). They will ask: what forms of life are more unlivable than death? Or put another way, what does it mean to do harm to that which is nothing? Without the fantasy of closure, Atmospheres of Violence asks these questions through a still unfolding archive of racialized anti-trans/queer terror. Rather than finding safety in the metaphysics of the law, or through the ruse of the individual assailant, Stanley suggests that this violence is foundational to, and not an aberration of the democratic state. Against this catastrophe of colonial modernity and as an abolitionist provocation Stanley will ask, “Is another end of the world possible?”
Brown University
Providence
External Link:
https://events.brown.edu/pembroke/event/246546