Political Perils in a Semiotics After Geontopower

As part of her visiting IAS Fellowship in “Opportunities in Pollution” and her international Visiting Professorship in Geography, Professor Elizabeth Povinelli will be delivering a theoretical continuation of her IAS Lecture on Tuesday  07 March) on reflections on decolonizing human and more than human relations. 

This talk discusses the decolonizing potentials and limits to developing a semiotics of agency, intentionality, and mind across human and more-than-human existence that goes beyond the geontological division between Life and Nonlife. The seminar asks both whether a Nonlife semiotics could be constructed and why one might hesitate constructing such a semiotics if one is interested in decolonizing forms of knowledge, truth and justification. 

Please contact Dr Penelope Anthias in the Department of Geography (penelope.f.anthias@durham.ac.uk) for further information.