Archives of Pandemics

Description

Christos Lynteris will be discussing his recent book 'Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary' with a particular focus on two topics explored in the book: a) the question of whether the "next pandemic" is an existential threat to humanity which is imagined and anticipated in terms of established tropes and mentalities of a secular apocalypse; b) the question of what the post-pandemic condition, or the way we imagine humanity's relation with the world, after the "next pandemic" tells us about the way in which we conceive human/non-human relations, and the place of humanity in the world. The two questions are linked by the role of human mastery over the relation between humanity and "nature" in contemporary imaginaries about what it is to be human.

Period	26 May 2020
Event title	Archives of the Disappeared Seminar
Event type	Seminar
Location	Cambridge, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International