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Patricia MacCormack - "Death Activism: A Joyful Apocalypse"

Patricia MacCormack will be giving a free lecture on September 28th, 18:30 CET, as part of SMR's Open Seminar Series for August-September 2022 entitled: " Death Activism: A Joyful Apocalypse." You can register for her talk on our Eventbrite page here: https://tinyurl.com/d5wjpnb8 Abstract: This seminar discusses the status of the Apocalypse in the current time of apocalypse, especially for nonhuman animals and minorities who do not live an apocalypse with a narrative but whose living status is a form of death - social death, status death, exploitable flesh as death. Covertly, what is the value in the perpetuation of the human as a dominating oppressive form of life on Earth? Is this question still too radical to address in a way devoid of nihilism? Creating a death activism based on care, on joyful nurturing, to rethink questions about the status of what constitutes life and death in the abstract and materially, is an ethical obligation humans have to the Earth and each other. Death activism embraces lives as liveable while interrogating the effects of human exceptionalism as a form of death perpetuation. (Patricia MacCormack) Bio: Patricia MacCormack is Professor of Continental Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge. She has published extensively on philosophy, feminism, queer and monster theory, animal abolitionist activism, ethics, art and horror cinema. She is the author of Cinesexuality (Routledge 2008) and Posthuman Ethics (Routledge 2012) and the editor of The Animal Catalyst (Bloomsbury 2014), Deleuze and the Animal (EUP 2017), Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema (Continuum 2008) and Ecosophical Aesthetics (Bloomsbury 2018). Her new book is The Ahuman Manifesto: Activisms for the End of the Anthropocene. About SMR's Open Seminars: The School of Materialist Research hosts seminars on original content engaging materialist thought and practice across the humanities, arts, and sciences. Topics covered in the seminars range from contemporary philosophical, political, and scientific materialisms, and the various ecological, aesthetic, and feminist materialisms that have sprung up in the last few decades, to the material challenges and possibilities confronting engineering and design on a planetary scale (through the distributed practices of computing, finance, urbanization, etc.), especially the host of geopolitical, racial, and ecological asymmetries that emerge in their wake. The seminars therefore embrace a full range of methodologies—philosophical, artistic, empirical, ethnographic, etc.—and offer a platform for showcasing research and experimentation on the many complexities of materialist thought and practice today.