The Political Aesthetics of Light

Vortrag von Brian Larkin (Columbia University, New York; Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin) im Rahmen des Forschungskolloquiums der Professur „Medien und Wissen“ sowie der Kollegforschungsgruppe „Angewandte Geisteswissenschaften: Genealogie und Politik“, HU Berlin.

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I examine the operations of light as a medium. Starting from the aesthetic, sensorial experience of inhabiting light I trace back the broader political economy that gives rise to the how and why light as a medium exists as it does. Drawing on histories of empire, anti-colonial nationalism, extractivist economies, I argue that the experience of inhabiting light and darkness is a marked aesthetic and sensorial experience metareflexively standing for and against an entire extractivist economy.

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