Freitag, 12. Juli 2024, 19.30 Uhr, diffrakt | zentrum für theoretische peripherie
Gespräch mit
Anne Potjans | Rebecca Racine Ramershoven | Malika Stuerznickel
– Die Veranstaltung findet auf Englisch statt. –
Black feminist ancestors like Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Wanda Coleman, and Toni Morrison have taught us that centering rage and anger is an important part of understanding and analyzing epistemic and hermeneutic injustice. Focusing on the role of negative affect in public spaces and the ways in which it is institutionally controlled, elucidates how the regulation of emotion is fundamental in upholding liberal humanist definitions of subjectivity. Emotional control thus functions as an important strategy to reify supposed human difference and structures of discrimination
Following up on thoughts from her book Why Are You So Angry? Anger and Rage in Black Feminist Literature (2024), Anne Potjans will be in conversation with Malika Stuerznickel and Rebecca Racine Ramershoven about anger and rage, and the role of negative affect in creating and navigating Black feminist live worlds.
Hopscotch Reading Room will be present with a book table, and we invite you to stick around after the event for some chatting, mingling and book browsing.
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The event is organized in the context of the ERC Consolidator Grant project “Tales of the Diasporic Ordinary: Aesthetics, Affects Archives”.
