Masterclass: “Unworlding: Atopia, Dystopia, Queertopia” (Prof. Jack Halberstam, Columbia University, New York)

Researcher in Residence
Masterclass: “Unworlding: Atopia, Dystopia, Queertopia”
Tuesday, 01.07.2025, 16-18, Hörsaal Kollegienhaus 2.018 (registration necessary)
How do we unmake the structures, ideologies, modes of thought, epistemologies and ways of seeing that, in a Euro-American tradition, we currently call “world”? What is the world? Who is the world? Who must necessarily be excluded in order for worlds to exist, to thrive, and possibly to die? We will explore the making, unmaking, and dismantling of worlds, and the relation between aesthetic practice and un/worlding. The seminar emerges out of an interest in the challenges and pleasures of collective thinking and critical theory: in questions of negativity and a/dystopia, Blackness, queerness, transness and ontology, desire and its itineraries.

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