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Denise Ferreira da Silva’s influential academic writing and artistic practice have highlighted how conceptions of humanity privileged within modern thought underpin forms of violence and dispossession experienced daily. Her thinking forms a vital stimulus for questions active in In formation III around conceptions of the mind, and implicit and explicit constraints imposed on the psyche. Her evening talk expands on concerns active within her current work, and will be followed on Sunday 26 August by a study group focused on black aesthetics.
Ferreira da Silva’s writing and thinking has rigorously addressed the ethical dimensions of the global present. She has considered the emergence of the notion of globality itself as a product of ‘the tools of nineteenth-century scientific projects of knowledge’, and the institution of racial subjection. In articulating the productive role played by the racial in sustaining the ‘post-Enlightenment version of the Subject as the sole self-determined thing,’ she has defined how the arsenal of social scientific knowledge, entwined with the writing of this subject, renders ongoing violence towards people of colour as not only expected, but also justified.
Through this lens, Ferreira da Silva has provided crucial insights into the economic, juridic and moral configurations active within contemporary moments of financial crisis, and the treatment of refugees within and outside European countries. In her writing and collaborative artistic work, Ferreira da Silva has speculated on a ‘Feminist Poethics of Blackness’, in doing so outlining existence ‘without the tools of universal reason,’ and beyond the global. Through such ‘poethical thinking’, she has sought to activate ‘blackness’s disruptive force’, to ‘tear the veil of transparency (even if briefly) and disclose what lies at the limits of justice.’
Ferreira da Silva’s writing and thinking has rigorously addressed the ethical dimensions of the global present. She has considered the emergence of the notion of globality itself as a product of ‘the tools of nineteenth-century scientific projects of knowledge’, and the institution of racial subjection. In articulating the productive role played by the racial in sustaining the ‘post-Enlightenment version of the Subject as the sole self-determined thing,’ she has defined how the arsenal of social scientific knowledge, entwined with the writing of this subject, renders ongoing violence towards people of colour as not only expected, but also justified.
Through this lens, Ferreira da Silva has provided crucial insights into the economic, juridic and moral configurations active within contemporary moments of financial crisis, and the treatment of refugees within and outside European countries. In her writing and collaborative artistic work, Ferreira da Silva has speculated on a ‘Feminist Poethics of Blackness’, in doing so outlining existence ‘without the tools of universal reason,’ and beyond the global. Through such ‘poethical thinking’, she has sought to activate ‘blackness’s disruptive force’, to ‘tear the veil of transparency (even if briefly) and disclose what lies at the limits of justice.’
05:00 pm
Sat, 25 Aug 2018
Lower Gallery
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