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SUMMARY:CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Elizabeth Povinelli: Primitive A
 ccumulation and Original Precarity: Vulnerability Outside Settler Geonto
 politics
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DESCRIPTION:This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precari
 ty'.\n\nElizabeth Povinelli (Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology\, Colu
 mbia University) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Primitive Accum
 ulation and Original Precarity: Vulnerability Outside Settler Geontopoli
 tics'.\n\nAs global temperatures rise and toxins spread\, wars pound sta
 tes\, insurgents\, and civilians alike\, and the world splits into two g
 reat extremes\, the 1% and the unruly stateless\, incarcerated\, crumpli
 ng middle class\, green radicals and militant theologists)\, many in the
  global North seem on edge\, precarious\, and vulnerable. Everything see
 ms suddenly exceptionally uncertain. It is not the social clashes alone 
 that signal the epochal moment for many. What have placed people on edge
  are a new set of antagonists and the nature of their unpredictable inte
 ractions–the clash between man and nature\; between societies and nature
 s\; and between entangled species and the geological\, ecological\, and 
 meteorological systems that support them. Marx may have thought the soci
 al dialectic was leading to the purification of the fundamental oppositi
 on of human classes\, but what many believe we are now witnessing is a n
 ew war of the world as an antagonism between classes of existence take c
 enter stage. The cause of this new form of uncertainty is usually paraph
 rased as anthropogenic climate change and toxicity\, the moment when hum
 an existence became the determinate form of planetary existence—and a ma
 lignant form at that—rather than merely the fact that humans affect thei
 r environment. In this talk\, Povinelli examines how the longstanding an
  antagonism between myself and my other so vital to governance in late l
 iberalism is unraveling in the rising toxic temperature of the times. Wh
 ere am I and it\, the self and the other\, if the other which threatens 
 to undo me\, re-flesh me\, is already within me\, and it is my offspring
 ? In this swelter how does the problem of precarity and uncertainty move
  from the question of who\, or what\, are the antagonists/antagonisms of
  our time to the problem of antagonism in the context of an original ent
 anglement.
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:A113\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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