Theory and the “Self”
This seminar series brings together artists, scholars, researchers and organizers from South Africa, Mexico, U.S., Iran, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Botswana, Peru and Sweden, to share the interdisciplinary, aesthetic and transcultural nature of Black Study.
Marquis Bey
We will think through two key things: first, what is the purpose and impact of theory; or, put differently, what can or ought theory do for us? And second, how can the notion of the “self” serve as fuel for theorizing, not because we seek to venerate ourselves or emphasize the individual but because the self is a vector through which to understand the many grammars of the world.
Marquis (they/them pronouns, or any pronouns) is Professor of Black Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies, with an appointment in Critical Theory, at Northwestern University. They write and think at the intersections of blackness, trans and nonbinary genders, abolition, and theory. Most recently, Bey is the author of Black Trans Feminism as well as Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender.
Seminar Resources
“Back in the Day,” Ahmad
Wangechi Mutu’s image “Forbidden Fruit Picker”
An Interview with Fred Moten, Pt. II
Information
Price: Free entrance but book your place
Location: MDT – Slupskjulsvägen 30, 111 49 Stockholm
Other: Language: English
