After Autonomy:
Toward a Decolonial Aesthetics and the Question of Minor Relationalities.

Organized in cooperation with Çiğdem Inan
by the Research Team Perception, Jurisdiction and Valorization in Colonial Modernity

Speakers:

Siraj Ahmed (New York)
Maria Chehodnadskih (London)
Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez (Frankfurt/M.)
Laura Harris (New York)
Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen (Berlin)
Amber Musser (New York)

Abstracts and Bio Notes

Venue:
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Room M20, Mezzanin

Schillerplatz 3
A–1010 Vienna

Recent Conference:

Belligerent Accumulation

23–25 May 2024

Belligerent Accumulation.

Natural Right, Valorization, and Aesthetics in Colonial Modernity. Histories – Transformations – Resistances.

International Conference
European University Viadrina

Speakers:

Robert Bernasconi (Pennsylvania State University)
Ashley Bohrer (University of Notre-Dame)
Kandice Chuh (CUNY Graduate Center, New York)
Sean Colonna (Bard College, New York)
Jamila Mascat (Universiteit Utrecht)
Mark Neocleous (Brunel University, London)
Mary Nyquist (University of Toronto)
Maïa Pal (Oxford Brooks University)
Matthieu Renault (Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès)
Monique Roelofs (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Schedule
Abstracts and Bio Notes

Venue:
European University Viadrina
Logensaal, Logenstr. 11
Frankfurt Oder
Germany

Perception, Jurisdiction, and Valorization in Colonial Modernity – On the Nexus of Accumulation, Race, and Aesthetics

Belligerent Accumulation
23–25 May 2024
International Conference

Logensaal, Logenstr. 1 l
European University Viadrina
Frankfurt (Oder)

Schedule
Speakers

Schedule Belligerent Accumulation
Conference

Thursday

12:30
Welcome

12:45 – 13:00
Introduction to the conference and the first panel
by Katja Diefenbach, Ruth Sonderegger, and Pablo Valdivia

13:00 – 15:00
Ashley Bohrer
Rethinking Enclosure from the South: Primitive Accumulation and the Settler Commons in the History of Global (Racial) Capitalism
moderated by Pablo Valdivia

15:00 – 15:15
Break

15:15 – 17:15
Maïa Pal
Rethinking Multiplicity, Legal Form, and Jurisdiction for Early Modern Transitional Practices
moderated by Ruth Sonderegger

17:15 – 17:30
Break

17:30 – 19:30
Mark Neocleous
The Social Wars of Belligerent Accumulation
moderated by Katja Diefenbach

Friday

09:30 – 09:45
Introduction to the second panel
by Katja Diefenbach

09:45 – 11:45
Robert Bernasconi
Luis de Molina’s Moralizing in the Face of an Increasingly Autonomous Colonial System
moderated by Ruth Sonderegger

11:45 – 12:00
Break

12:00– 14:00
Mary Nyquist
Pre-Civility, Indigeneity, and War: Hobbes and Euro-Colonialism
moderated by Katja Diefenbach

14:00 – 15:15
Lunch break

15:15 – 17:15
Matthieu Renault
John Locke: A (Geo)Philosophy of Slavery
moderated by Pablo Valdivia

17:15 – 17:30
Break

17:30 – 19:30
Jamila Mascat
Marx, Slavery and Colonialism: A Case for So-Called Permanent Accumulation
moderated by Gal Kirn

Saturday

09:45 – 10:00
Introduction to the third panel
by Ruth Sonderegger

10:00 – 12:00
Monique Roelofs
Taste, Race, and the Public: Aesthetic Agency in Diamela Eltit’s E. Luminata and The Fourth World
moderated by Ruth Sonderegger

12:00 – 12:15
Break

12:15 – 14:15
Kandice Chuh
Out of (Common) Time
moderated by Pablo Valdivia

14:15 – 15:15
Lunch break

15:15 – 17:15
Sean Colonna
Drug Studies, Aesthetics, and the Decolonization of Subjectivity
moderated by Katja Diefenbach

After Autonomy: Toward a Decolonial Aesthetics and the Question of Minor Relationalities.

Belligerent Accumulation.

Perception, Jurisdiction, and Valorization in Colonial Modernity – On the Nexus of Accumulation, Race, and Aesthetics

After Autonomy:
Toward a Decolonial Aesthetics and the Question of Minor Relationalities.