Slow Reading Group: In Catastrophic Times
Join us in reading Isabelle Stengers’ In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism and discuss the challenges of addressing global crises at a time when the formulas relied on by those Stengers calls “our guardians” stop working.
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 chapters is available here.
About the event
Online. Free. Limited Capacity.
Booking is required.
You can access this event through the Zoom meeting link available on booking.
This event will include real-time transcription. A transcription for this event is not available afterwards due to the intimate nature of the event.
We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event.
The duration of the event is one and a half hours. A rest break is not included.
Isabelle Stengers is a philosopher and writer. Until her retirement, she taught philosophy of science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, in Belgium. She received the grand prix for philosophy from the Académie Française in 1993 and her work engages with the politics of science, decolonising thought and the challenge of inventing commoning practices in catastrophic times. She is the author and co-author of numerous books, including Capitalist Sorcery: Breaking the Spell (2007), Cosmopolitics (2010), Women Who Make a Fuss (2014) and Hypnosis between Magic and Science (2019).
Event:
Slow Reading Group: In Catastrophic TimesDates:
19 Oct 2020 – 18 Oct 2021, 6.30pm–8pm, MonthlySupported by:
