[to] resurrect the ‘ghost’ of slavery in order to let the dead speak to the living, in order to allow silence to manifest language — Patricia Holland, Raising the Dead
Angela Davis
‘Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves’, 1972
M. NourbeSe Philip
extracts from Zong!, 2008
Thursday 2nd April 2015 / 7.30-9.00pm / Wellcome Collection Cafe, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
‘Testosterone isn’t masculinity’ — Preciado, Testo Junkie
‘Men, we are already people.’ — Robertson, The Men
Lisa Robertson
The Men, ‘MEN DEFT MEN’ , p.9-20, 2007
Paul B. Preciado
Testo Junkie, ‘The Drag King Plan of Action’ and ‘The Devil in Gel Form’, 2008
Thursday 5th March 2015 / 7.30-9.00pm / Room 110, Birkbeck Department of English and Humanities, 43-46 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
Denise Riley
Marxism for Infants, (p.8-11) 1977
Shulamith Firestone
The Dialectic of Sex (Chapter 1 and Conclusion), 1979
Thursday 5th February 2015 / 7.30-9.00pm / Room 121, Birkbeck Department of English and Humanities, 43-46 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
we are pleased to announce the next three instalments of CONTRAPPOSTO:
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contrapposto 4 / Thursday 5th February / 7.30-9pm / Room 121 Birkbeck
// MATERIALISMS //
Denise RILEY, Marxism for Infants, 1977 (p. 8-11)
Shulamith FIRESTONE, The Dialectic of Sex, 1979 (Chapter 1 and conclusion)
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contrapposto 5 / Thursday 5th March / 7.30-9pm / tbc
// MASCULINITY //
Lisa ROBERTSON, The Men, 2006
Lynne SEGAL, Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men, 1990
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contrapposto 6 / Thursday 2nd April / 7.30-9pm / Room 112 Birkbeck
// DEATH //
Sharon Patricia HOLLAND, Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and Black Subjectivity, 2000
M. NourbSe PHILIP, Zong, 2008
Bhanu KAPIL
excerpt from Humanimal, 2009
Jasbir PUAR
‘“I would rather be a cyborg than a
goddess”: Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory‘, 2012
Tuesday 16th december 2014 / 7.30-9.00pm / Room 112, Birkbeck Department of English and Humanities, 43-46 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
red room, it means nothing other than resistance,
and remember her back into my living.
Jennifer MOXLEY, from Often Capital, 1996/2005
Doris LESSING
from The Golden Notebook, 1962
[c.f. pdf of whole text ]
Julia KRISTEVA
‘Women’s Time’, 1993
Anna MENDELSSOHN
poetry is the lack, the arrested poem, from Implacable Art, 2000
Thursday 27th November / 7pm-9pm / WELLCOME COLLECTION cafe, 183 Euston Rd NW1 2BE
It is always the wrong linguistic moment
So how can I speak of sex?Lisa ROBERTSON, ‘A Cuff’, from R’s Boat, 2010
Mina LOY
Sonnet XXIX, ‘Songs to Joannes‘ from The Last Lunar Baedeker
Gayle RUBIN
‘Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality’
Eileen MYLES
‘Peanut Butter’ from Not Me
Tuesday 4th Nov / 6.30-8.30pm / Housmans Radical Bookshop, 5 Cally Rd LDN
— facilitated by the Centre for Modernist Studies, University of Sussex —
CONTRAPPOSTO 1 / 6.30-8.30pm / 4th november 2014 // SEX
Mina LOY, Sonnet XXIX from ‘Songs to Joannes’, 1917
Gayle RUBIN, ‘Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality’, 1984
Eileen MYLES, ‘Peanut Butter’ from Not Me, 1986-1989
CONTRAPPOSTO 2 / 7.00-9.00pm / 27th november 2014 // RESISTANCE
Doris LESSING, extract from The Golden Notebook, 1962
Julia KRISTEVA, ‘Women’s Time’, 1993
Anna MENDELSSOHN, poetry is the lack, the arrested poem, from Implacable Art, 2000
CONTRAPPOSTO 3 / 7.30-9.00pm / 16th december 2014 // ASSEMBLAGES
Bhanu KAPIL, excerpt from Humanimal, 2009
Jasbir PUAR, ‘“I would rather be a cyborg than a
goddess”: Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory‘, 2012
— in Room 112, Birkbeck Department of English and Humanities, 43-46 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD —
CONTRAPPOSTO 