October Slugs & Steins: Monsters in our Closet: Dealing with Sudden Change
The act of monsterization is not, at its core, very mysterious. Whenever there is an epistemic break, different elements of society attempt to cope by locating the site of disturbance, identifying it as Other, and then mapping that category upon the bodies of the marginalized. We do this all the time, and the rate at which is occurs is accelerating due to the precarity in which we find ourselves: terrorism, global pandemic, economic uncertainty and political chaos in an environment where everything is connected and speeded up. It is no wonder that monsters lurk at the edge of all our traumas. And so, we find we no longer need to justify our scholarly interest in monsters; certainly not to our students, who constantly struggle to envision a good future that includes them. The potential for the monster to play an important role in the envisioning of new and better worlds is one our students are hungry to learn.
Monday, October 11, 2021 at 6:30pm
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