THESE SCENES OF UNBECOMING: a conversation with John Paul Ricco, Nasrin Himada & Etienne Turpin

To celebrate the launch of their recent respective publications, please join John Paul Ricco, Nasrin Himada, and Etienne Turpin on Tuesday at 7pm for a conversation on the ethics and politics of unbecoming. Within this theoretical framework, and in relation to various scenes, topics will include: violence, sex, intimacy, brutality, sharing, extinction, pleasure, animality, loss, mourning, confinement, and bodies. 

John Paul Ricco is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Art, Media Theory, and Culture in the Department of Visual Studies in the Centre for Comparative Literature, at the University of Toronto, Canada. Ricco's most recent book, The Decision Between Us, combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are spaces of sharing, they are also spaces of separation." http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo17577653.html

Nasrin Himada holds a post-doctoral research fellowship in Communications at the Université de Montréal and is a visiting scholar in the Aesthetics and Politics program at CalArts. http://scapegoatjournal.org/

Etienne Turpin is a philosopher living and working in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he is the director of anexact office. http://anexact.org/

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Tuesday, March 31 7pm

Poetic Research Bureau

951 Chung King Road

Los Angeles, CA