Lauren Berlant’s Society and Space lecture at the #AAG2015 – forthcoming in the journal

BerlantLaurent Berlant gave the Society and Space lecture at the Association of American Geographers meeting in Chicago on Friday 24 April 2015. Entitled ‘Sensing the Commons’, it ranged from affect to political theory, infrastructure to austerity. There was a large audience for the dense, nuanced, and fascinating lecture, and some discussion time afterwards for questions and challenges. The lecture will appear in a future issue of the journal. Many thanks to Lauren for the wonderful event, and for all of you who came out to engage with feminist and queer thought and to support the journal.

Update: Jen Jack Gieseking has put together a Storify of the tweets about this talk.Crowd

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Interview with Lauren Berlant

Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Professor of English at the University of Chicago, has generated a path-breaking body of scholarship that has opened up and reinvigorated interdisciplinary conversations about citizenship, sex, law and neoliberalism for over two decades.

David Seitz, a Toronto-based writer and Ph.D. candidate in human geography and women’s and gender studies at the University of Toronto, recently interviewed Berlant about her take on contemporary queer and austerity politics, the political implications of powerful new book Cruel Optimism, and the insights of queer theory for the present. A shorter version of this interview recently appeared in Toronto Xtra! The full version is presented here.

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