Black Freedom; AI and Creativity; Violence and Disappearance
Events with James B. Haile III and Alessandra Raengo, and Pireeni Sundaralingam, Nicholas Halmi with Audrey Borowski
Dear all,
There’s lots to chew through in this Sunday’s newsletter - I do hope you enjoy reading through.
Additional places have been made available for the ‘South Asian Feminist Philosophy’ webinar with Professor Meena Dhanda on the 11th July. You can register for tickets here.
Your Sunday Read
“Violence and Disappearance: Knowing and Seeing”
by Terrell Carver
In this evocative essay, Terrell Carver explores the disturbing power of political violence, memory, and absence. He examines how violence typically communicates through visibility and how disappearance as a strategy upends that logic. Focusing on Argentina’s “disappeared” and the symbolic resonance of everyday memorials like the baldosas por la memoria, Carver asks: How can we know and relate to the violence we haven't seen? How do we remember what was meant to be erased? You can read the interview here.
Monday Event: 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK/8pm CET
Black Stories of Freedom
James B. Haile III in conversation with Alessandra Raengo
In this event, James B. Haile III will trace how Black speculative fiction responds to enslavement, racism, colonialism, and capitalism, and how it reveals a life beyond social and political alienation. Looking at Black life through the lens of speculative fiction, he will help us to explore alternative worlds and spaces while remaining squarely rooted in present-day struggles. In so doing, he will rethink historical and contemporary Black experiences as well as figures such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry Dumas, and Toni Morrison. Offering new ways to grasp the meanings and implications of Black freedom, Haile invites us to reimagine history and memory, time and space, our identities and ourselves. You can find out more and register here.
Tuesday Event: 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK/8pm CET
AI and Human Creativity
Pireeni Sundaralingam and Nicholas Halmi with Audrey Borowski
Is AI and its tools opening up new avenues of perception and exploration for mankind or, on the contrary, diminishing them? What are the effects of AI on artistic creation? Should we revisit the concept of author? Is the future one of co-creation? Please join Pireeni Sundaralingam, Nicholas Halmi, and Audrey Borowski for a discussion on the impacts and ramifications of AI on human creativity. You can find out more and register here.
Event Recording
If you missed the recent panel conversation on “The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois”, you can watch the recording here:
Ending
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Wishing you all a lovely Sunday, wherever you are.
Elinor Potts
Managing Editor
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