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Online event: Posthuman Reading Group: Humankind. Solidarity with Nonhuman People
25 Oct 2021 6-7.30pm
NN Contemporary Art
Northampton NN1 1DP
Overview
In this online meeting, we will do a close reading of Timothy Morton’s ‘Humankind. Solidarity with Nonhuman People’ to explore what it means to be human in relation to other nonhuman beings. We will discuss the presented ideas about ecological coexistence as well as kindness and solidarity beyond species divisions.
The meeting will start with a short presentation giving context to the topic, the text and the author, and will be followed by collective reading and informal discussion.
No previous knowledge of the topic, or the publication is necessary. The text will be distributed in the meeting.
About the author of ‘Humankind. Solidarity with Nonhuman People’
Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. They have collaborated with Björk, Laurie Anderson, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Justin Guariglia, Olafur Eliasson, and Pharrell Williams. Morton co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future's Past, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. They are the author of the libretto for the opera Time Time Time by Jennifer Walshe. Morton has written Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), 8 other books and 250 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. Morton's work has been translated into 10 languages. In 2014 they gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory.
About Posthuman Reading Group
Posthuman Reading Group is a series of regular monthly gatherings addressing feminist debates about human relationships with non-humans, the environment and technology. The meetings are held online through Zoom and they are spaces for collective reading, thinking, learning and interdisciplinary exchange between participants. The reading groups are always open to all.
Access Notes
The event will happen on Zoom – a link will be emailed to attendees. This event will be live captioned, transcription will be available afterwards and it will be recorded for archival purposes. For help with how to set up Zoom and accessibility enquiries, email [email protected].