Hi everyone, Just a reminder that Kara Keeling will be speaking today at 4pm in Annenberg Room 500 (3620 Walnut Street). This lecture is co-sponsored with Cinema and Media Studies, and we're very grateful for their support. See below for her talk title and abstract, I hope you can join us! Best, Jessa ________________________________ From: Lingel, Jessa <jessa.lingel@asc.upenn.edu> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:27 PM To: ASC List Everyone <allusers@asc.upenn.edu> Subject: Control Societies Spring Speaker Schedule: First event - Kara Keeling on Jan. 27 Hello, I hope everyone is having a wonderful winter break and is feeling ready for the new semester. The first Control Societies lecture of the semester is coming up! Kara Keeling will speak on Monday, Jan. 27th at 4pm. Her talk (co-sponsored with Cinema and Media Studies) is titled, "An Empiricism that Invites Surprises." Abstract: In this talk, I discuss how “an empiricism that invites surprises” might work as a mode of knowledge production. I expand upon the ideas offered at the end of my book, Queer Times, Black Futures, where I write, “In the context of the algorithms and relations characteristic of finance, poetic knowledge returns the body to the living organism and upends the rationale for the violences of finance capital. It prefers not to. By introducing desire and the senses into knowledge production, it disrupts the common, habitual relations of signification that allow for prediction and reconciliation between things. It insists that how we come to know what we know is as significant as what we know, and, in these ways, it provides a queer way of knowing that flies in the face of calculation and commensuration.“ See below for the full Control Societies schedule, all events held at ASC 500. * Kara Keeling, January 27, 4pm (Cosponsored w/ Cinema and Media Studies) * Stephanie Dinkins, February 17, 4pm * Denise Ferreira da Silva, March 23, 4pm * Jasbir Puar, March 30, 4pm (Cosponsored w/ GSWS) Warmly, Jessa