Pelion Summer Lab for Cultural Theory and Experimental Humanities is an initiative of the Laboratory of Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly
We are thrilled to announce this year’s 5th (!) PSL on “Ec/o/ntologies” June 28-July 8 in Makrinitsa. Details here: https://t.co/kqYWyXZWAC Applications open until April 10!
A year ago, Dušan I. Bjelić spoke at our @decolonizehel congress on "Black Marxism, Racial Capitalism and the Balkans & the Eastern Mediterranean Complex. On the Abolition of Europe’s Racial Supremacy". A year later, the talk is more relevant than ever.
Meanwhile in Athens a utopic revitalized, post-pandemic social order is being rendered at the former Ellinikon International Airport. Anonymous and uncanny doppelgängers are interned “there” as the spectral apparitions of a promised future. #spectrality#PSL2022#afterlives
The fear of “the tallest slum in the world” is the fear of distinctly unsettling, ominous, vertical ruin: an unfinished and abandoned skyscraper appropriated by a nonwhite multitude that is unafraid of rubble.” PSL 2022 faculty @gaston_gordillo#ruination#afterlives#survivance
Through projects like ‘suits of inquiry’, PSL 2022 faculty @LabSpecEth Elizabeth Chin experimentally draws together performance and design to explore race as a technologically elaborated mode of interfacing social space in the city. #psl2022#afterlives#spectrality