Dear colleagues,
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<br>I’m delighted to invite you to the next session of the Pluralistic Variations lecture series hosted by the Unit of Play. All Welcome! Please share widely.
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<br>Wed 13th February 2019 | 4.30-6.30pm
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<br>Margaret Macmillan Building (MMB) 220
<br>Goldsmiths, University of London
<br>London SE14 6NW
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<br>Part of the Pluralistic Variations Lecture Series
<br>Organised by Dr Martin Savransky (Sociology)
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<br>AROUND THE PLURIVERSE IN 9 OBJECTS: COSMOLOGICAL COMPOSITIONS FOR CRITICAL ZONES
<br>John Tresch (Warburg Institute)
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<br>This talk presents brief episodes of a history of the cosmos. Its immediate prompt is an exhibit planned by Bruno Latour at the Center for Arts and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, called “Critical Zones.” Geoscientists apply this term to the space that sets the conditions of possibility for life as we know it— a few hundred feet below and above the surface of the earth. The impact of pollution and climate change on the complicated relations within the Critical Zone among soil, geology, meteorology, and biology, as well as the commitments and policies driving industry and land use, call out for new orientations—aesthetic, political, epistemological— toward the cosmos. My contribution to the exhibit is to plan a Hall of Cosmograms— representations of the universe– highlighting the interplay between “naturalist” approaches to the earth and alternatives, pointing out some of the conflicts and constraints involved in mobilizing representations of the universe. It’s a question of how to do things with worlds. This talk shows some possibilities.
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<br>John Tresch is Mellon Chair and Professor of History of Art, Science, and Folk Practice at the Warburg Institute at the University of London. He is the author of The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon (Chicago, 2012), and co-editor of Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge (Palgrave, 2016), Bibliotechnica: Humanist Practice in Digital Times (Fondazione Cini, 2018), and A/V, Audio/Visual (Grey Room Quarterly, 2009). He studied anthropology, philosophy, and history of science in Chicago, Cambridge, and Paris, and taught at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia before moving to London last year.
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<br>Dr. Martin Savransky
<br>Lecturer | Department of Sociology
<br>Director, Unit of Play (UoP)
<br>Convenor, MA Critical & Creative Analysis
<br>Goldsmiths, University of London
<br>London SE14 6NW
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<br>m.savransky@gold.ac.uk
<br>Goldsmiths Staff Website
<br>Academia.edu Website
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<br>Unit of Play
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<br>The Adventure of Relevance | Speculative Research: The Lure of Possible Futures | Isabelle Stengers and The Dramatization of Philosophy
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