Public Lecture & Workshop: The Spacetime of Critical Matters (04. & 05.06.) – Birgit Kaiser & Kathrin Thiele
04. Jun
Lecture, Tuesday, 04.06.2024, 7-9 pm, C40.256
Workshop, Wednesday, 05.06.2024, 12-2:00 pm, C40.255
Guests: Birgit Kaiser (Utrecht University / terra critica) & Kathrin Thiele (Utrecht University / terra critica)
In resonance with Derrida’s doubling of “ends” in his 1968 essay “The Ends of Man”, this collaborative talk will think about the ends of critique. Building on our most recent Terra Critica publication The Ends of Critique (2022) – crossing the coming to an end of certain critical dispositions with the refusal to give up on critique as a key commitment for work in the Humanities – our talk will address ideas of temporality and time (Thiele) and spatial distance or proximity (Kaiser) which often uncritically underly and drive practices of critique. How do modes of critique transform, if (with Sylvia Wynter) the linearity and sequentiality of critical pursuits of change were challenged? And how do practices of critique morph, if (with Gayatri Spivak) critical intimacy were valued over distance? If one were to consider another spacetime, how does critique come to matter?
This event is a cooperation between the Cultures of Critique DFG Research Training Group and the Center for Critical Studies (CCS).
The lecture is open to the public, for the workshop please register by May 29, 2024 by sending an email to kdk@leuphana.de.