{"id":1195,"date":"2020-11-28T14:02:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T14:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlacs-travesia.online\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2021-01-11T09:24:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T09:24:38","slug":"human-nonhuman-decolonial-perspectives-on-life-on-a-diminished-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jlacs-travesia.online\/en\/2020\/11\/28\/human-nonhuman-decolonial-perspectives-on-life-on-a-diminished-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Human\/nonhuman: Decolonial Perspectives on Life on a Diminished Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

February 8th<\/sup>, 2021, 12 pm (EST) \/ 5 pm (GMT) \/ 9 am (PST) (ZOOM)<\/h4>\n

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This panel, part of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies <\/em>online symposium series Pandemonio 2021<\/a>, asks about the challenges the contemporary crisis of the living unleashed by anthropogenic climate change, planetary metabolic rift and the ever-accelerating rate of species extinctions presents to the field of cultural studies and to the humanities more widely. What do the vocabularies and frameworks of disciplines predicated on the distinctiveness and autonomy of aesthetic experience, and thus also of its human <\/em>subject of enjoyment and critique, have to offer in response to a process that appears to call into question its most fundamental assumptions? Is the \u2018Necrocene\u2019 \u2013the \u2018becoming-extinction\u2019 of species and of ecological, linguistic and spiritual diversity alike\u2013 also a moment of anaesthesia, in the sense of precluding any kind of cognitive grasp of \u2018the hyperobject\u2019 or \u2018the irruption of Gaia\u2019, the presence of which has now become as undeniable as it remains impossible to represent? Or is this crisis, on the contrary, one that calls for radical aesthetic responses, which have the power to evoke what conceptual and analytical discourses cannot? In the contributions to this panel, we will return to the archives of de\/coloniality, in an attempt to find in the critique of modernity\u2019s colonial-extractivist matrix a point of departure for entering into critical exchanges with the \u2018environmental humanities\u2019 from the vantage point of the \u2018epistemologies of the South\u2019 (Sousa Santos 2014). The panel, moderated by JLACS<\/em> editor Freya Schiwy (UC Riverside), will feature podcasts by Lesley Wylie (University of Leicester), Victoria Saramago (University of Chicago), and Jens Andermann (NYU), as well as a Q&A\/panel discussion where they will also discuss their recent books in relation to an emerging field of Latin American environmental humanities. Literary critics and environmental humanities scholars Mary Louise Pratt (NYU) and Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia) will provide critical responses and commentary.<\/p>\n

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