&Now 2019 Conference

The Autumnal Equinox (September 23rd) invites response to the changing season: with the coming of darkness, what needs to/ought to be reseeded and perhaps what needs to be revisioned? In this our era dominated by a promise of “progress” (an interminably productive and reproductive, humancentric futurity) that ensures unbearable growth, ecological destruction, and numerous causalities – the seasonal reprise provokes us to collectively slow in the present and rethink futurity. This workshop will create a space to affectively and intellectually assess modes of sustenance in relation to current dominant structures and life systems, resist capitalocene reproduction, queer temporality and imagine other possible futures. We’ll ask: How can (or do) we swerve out of capitalist (re)productive ideologies? What resilience can we (re)invent? What form of sympoetic creativity can we conjure? We’ll read poems together and write through their pulses to collaborate and create something new – to possibly create a little shift in workings or awareness to bring to one’s own equinox ritual.

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