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SUMMARY:'A New Kind of Wildness' - the Rite of Spring and Other Queer Jour
 neys into the Wild - Professor Jack Halberstam\, The Diane Middlebrook and
  Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge Centre fo
 r Gender Studies 
DTSTART:20150210T173000Z
DTEND:20150210T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:In a new book on "The Wild" I try to develop a new critical vo
 cabulary to access different\, transdisciplinary ways of thinking about ra
 ce\, sexuality\, alternative political imaginaries and queer futurity. Bui
 lding on the legacy of José Esteban Muñoz on the one hand and dialoguing
  with new and older work in queer studies\, I try to repurpose the languag
 e of wildness in order to create a switchpoint between different discursiv
 e tracks which generally do not intersect. By using a discarded critical t
 erm like "the wild" or "wildness\," I seek to activate an arena of thinkin
 g that has been cordoned off due its colonization and exhaustion within im
 perial languages  of civilization. However\, words like the "wild" are pac
 ked not only with imperial debris but also with new signs of life\, new sh
 oots of thought that peek up out of the rubble\, like weeds\, showing that
  the ground we thought was lost\, offers odd and suggestive harvests. This
  talk takes Stravinsky/Nijinsky's Rite of Spring as the starting point for
  a leap into the wild.
LOCATION:The Main Lecture Theatre\, Divinity School\, St John's College\, 
 Cambridge\, CB2 1 TP
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