In this session of the seminar, the visiting researcher Matteo Savoldelli, invites us to a collective reflection on the cultural climate that affects and surrounds us today. Starting from an analysis of some of the main contemporary critical theories, from queer feminism to the ontological turn in anthropology, to animal and anti-speciesist philosophies, it will be analyzed how nature has been deconstructed, fragmented, and politicised by the postmodern thought. Starting from these insights, an attempt will be made to understand what risks we are running in the continuation of such an approach with regard to the climate crisis, as well as to put forward a proposal capable of highlighting the merits and limits of postmodernism in order to look towards new horizons.
Matteo Savoldelli is a researcher at the Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia. After a multifarious path, ranging from the study of political economy and contemporary art to the organisation of exhibitions, events and seminars in the Venetian area, Matteo Savoldelli is now working on a PhD in environmental aesthetics and climate crisis (PhD-SDC, IUSS Pavia – Ca’ Foscari Venezia). His main research interests concern postmodern critical theories, the concept of style in epistemology and aesthetics, environmental humanities and theories on post-work and care.
Date: Friday 27th October at 10:00 h.
Venue: Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC (C/ Albasanz, 26, Madrid)
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Participants are invited to read the following text, as an opening provocation to the debate, and the following video, as a descriptive attempt at a new emerging cultural sensibility:
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/89-CRITICAL-INQUIRY-GB.pdf
https://youtu.be/5xEi8qg266g?si=SO7o9cbodW330D1x