Roundtable: Pandemonium: how knowing is changing its being
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Venue:
Online
Roundtable: Pandemonium: how knowing is changing its being
Organizers: Margarita Palacios and Lasse Thomassen
Speakers: Gail Lewis (Yale University), Macarena Gomez Barris (Pratt Institute), Martin Plot (California Institute of the Arts), Monica Moreno Figueroa (University of Cambridge), Samir Gandesha (Simon Fraser University), Stephen Sheehi (College of William & Mary)
Critical theorists have deconstructed knowledge production from many different perspectives. Directly or indirectly, they have addressed the intangible and material/political being of epistemology. If critique is always interested, embodied and emerges from particular contexts, given the current planetary predicament when knowing is changing its being, we want to ask, what sustains critique? How have the full stop of lockdowns around the globe and the certainty of ‘no planet b’, for example, challenged, puzzled, contradicted, deemed insignificant, and proved relevant, the premises that sustain our practices of knowing? In this roundtable, critical theorists interrogate their own research practices in order to take the debate forward about the current being of knowing, the (in)adequacy of our epistemological assumptions and the status of critique.
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Psychosocial Studies