14/05 | Aesthetics of Interruption: Fissures, Resistances, and Cultural Reconfigurations

On May 14th, the conference “Aesthetics of Interruption: Fissures, Resistances, and Cultural Reconfigurations” will take place, organized within the framework of the Theory and Criticism of Culture workshop at room 1.A.14 of Puerta de Toledo Campus (UC3M)

The conference will begin at 10:00 a.m. with an opening lecture by the THECO Research Group, featuring Álvaro San Román (UNED), Sofía Pérez Baeza (UC3M), and Manuel García (UC3M).

Panel 1 (11:15 a.m.): Resistances: Bodies, Practices, and Counternarratives

• The Body and its Non-Hegemonic Representations in Art: Daniel Jambrina
• Manifesto Against Criticism: Lucía Oca and Marta de Saa

Panel 2 (1:00 p.m.): Fissures: Breaks, Crises, and Discontinuities of Meaning

• Finitude, Value, and Dependence: A Transformation Proposed by Martin Hägglun: María Pérez
• Class, Stigma, and Desire in Social Movements Anna Berthet and Daniel Luque

Panel 3 (4:00 PM): Reconfigurations: New Mediations, Forms, and Sensibilities

• Tenderness as a Colonizing Weapon. Lucía Guaza
• Repetition as a Commodity: Culture and Platform Capitalism. Afrika Fernández and Mararia Delgado
  Uncanceling the Future: Musical Pastiche and the Cracks in Contemporary Paralysis. Irea Bolaño and Unai Ortiz