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"Care Tactics: Environmental Practice of Everyday Life"
Speaker:
Verena Conley, Director of Graduate Studies; Long Term Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literature, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.
Contact:
Ilana Freedman
ifreedman@g.harvard.edu
Chairs:
Panagiotis Roilos, Faculty Associate. George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies, Department of the Classics; Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Associate Professor, Department of Classics, Department of Anthropology, and the Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University.
Abstract:
Witnessing a return to longstanding theories of sensation and perception, environmental criticism is reconsidering (or retrofitting) phenomenology for an inventive ethics and aesthetics of quotidian life. Proposing that on the basis of sentience and perception we can fashion an art of the everyday of political mettle, it displaces work of time past into the ecological crises of our moment. Turning historical objects into critical counterparts, Gilles Deleuze, Isabelle Stengers and others concerned about the “state of the world” rethink early 20th century philosophers such as A. N. Whitehead to find an ecology of practices. The aim of this paper is less to excavate or exonerate than to redeploy or redesign ways of thinking into an ethics of care.
