Online Slow Reading Group: Ideas to Postpone the End of the World by Ailton Krenak
Join us in reading Ideas to Postpone the End of the World by Ailton Krenak. Krenak is an eminent figure in Brazilian activism, in the struggle for the recognition of the rights of indigenous people and for the environment.
As with all our previous Slow Reading sessions, we will be reading Ideas to Postpone the End of the World by Ailton Krenak together, out loud and slowly. No special expertise is needed to participate in these sessions other than an interest in contemporary ecological issues, reading with others, and a willingness to discuss ideas. All sessions will be facilitated by Andrew Goffey, Associate Professor in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts, at University of Nottingham.
The Slow Reading Group is an informal space for collectively reading meaningful texts that open out the ideas and themes from our research-based events at Nottingham Contemporary and the Three Ecologies Research Group at the University of Nottingham. Informed by Félix Guattari’s notion of the Three Ecologies - the idea that our environmental crisis relates to our contemporary capitalism - and by theories of decolonisation and intersectionality, the reading group invites you to plot connections between these fields, combining academic and everyday approaches to research.
A PDF copy of the text will be provided during the session.
Online. Free. Limited Capacity. Booking required.
Sessions take place on the following dates:
Mon 20 Jan 2025, 6.30pm-8pm, online.
Mon 17 Feb 2025, 6.30pm-8pm, a hybrid session with the option to join online or in person at Nottingham Contemporary in Gallery 0.
Mon 17 Mar 2025, 6.30pm-8pm, online.
Ailton Krenak is an indigenous leader, environmentalist, philosopher, poet and writer from Brazil. Considered one of the great leaders of the Brazilian indigenous movement, Krenak is currently an honorary professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). Krenak has succeeded in providing a safe space for indigenous leadership to be developed throughout the country. He is often referred to as a mentor and a leader to younger generations of indigenous leaders, activists, and politicians. He has played a major role in the development of indigenous organisations that emerged over the last years. In his writing, Krenak puts forward different philosophies of what shapes the human relationship with nature. His recently published books include Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo (Ideas to Postpone the End of the World) in 2019 and O amanhã não está à venda (Tomorrow Is Not for Sale) in 2020.
Andrew Goffey is an associate professor in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies and the director of the Centre for Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham. He is the author, with Matthew Fuller, of Evil Media, the editor, with Eric Alliez, of The Guattari Effect, and with Roland Faber, of The Allure of Things. He has also translated numerous books, including Lines of Flight, and Schizoanalytic Cartographies, by Felix Guattari, and Capitalist Sorcery, In Catastrophic Times, and Virgin Mary and the Neutrino, by Isabelle Stengers. He is currently doing research on ecology and aesthetics and has collaborated with Nottingham Contemporary for a number of years.
Access
This event will be held online via Zoom. A zoom link will be emailed to you as part of your booking confirmation.
Reading materials will be provided in PDF form during the session.
One session will be held in-person, with a hybrid option to join online. This will take place in Gallery 0 at Nottingham Contemporary.
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If you have any questions around access or have specific access requirements we can accommodate, please get in touch with us by emailing info@nottinghamcontemporary.org or phoning 0115 948 9750.