Imagining Extinction in Video Games: An International Symposium
Video games have spent the last few decades (re-)imagining dystopian and post-apocalyptic scenarios, as in, e.g., Fallout (1997-2018), The Last of Us (2013-2020), Horizon (2017-2022), Plague ...
A Rupture in the Actual? The Problem of Utopia by Bill Cashmore
In this talk, Bill Cashmore will outline the specific problem that utopia poses for political thought. That is, if utopia is defined as a non-place, what is its relation to the actual utterance ...
John Boorman’s Zardoz as Cultural Artifact and Prophetic Vision: From Critical Aquarianism to Degrowth, by Anthony Galluzzo
This talk will focus on John Boorman’s cult 1974 film Zardoz as an exemplar of what Galluzzo calls “Critical Aquarianism”—a constellation of 1970s-era artists and thinkers who anticipate such ...
Why Bloch Now? Dreams of a Better Life in an Age of Catastrophe, by Jon Greenaway
We live in an age of catastrophe, and the utopian project is left as either a naive dream at best or a wilful ignoring of the facts in front of us. The stakes for the audacious gamble of ...
The Child in Videogames: From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous by Emma Reay
Videogames are key arenas in which definitions of childhood are being created and contested. While child-players of videogames are lightning rods for academic research, child-characters in ...
What is Love? As a celebration of Valentine’s Day in post-anthropocentric ways, this book presentation of The Art of Being Posthuman: Who are We in the 21st Century? (Polity), will focus on the ...
Cultures of the Future Lectures is one of CETAPS’ latest initiatives which aims to provide innovative tools and methods by inviting prominent scholars from all over the world to reflect on ...
