Haraway and Adams at IU
I am resisting blogging until Monday, once my seminar has had a chance to meet. But, I wanted to share the news with U of I folks that Donna Haraway, Carol Adams, and other well known body scholars are coming to IU next week for a conference on animals. For the program and more information, see: http://www.indiana.edu/~kspirits/
posted by Phaedra C. Pezzullo at 1:11 PM
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I just returned from Haraway's keynote talk, which was an extension of her work on companion species. Like the IU seminar this past Monday, as a warm up into her talk (mostly on dogs & wolves), she raised the Catholic practice of communion (eating wine & bread that has been transubstantiated into the body and blood of Jesus Christ, for those not raise in the faith) as a compelling site to explore the relationship between the tropic and things themselves, the necessarily significant and actual. So, one question we might explore is how body studies gives us ways to imagine the flesh/sign.
Her funny and smart presentation also included the following explicit "moral": she is trying "to invent a world out of learning how to inherit worlds." (Sounded like environmental communication to me, with a large dose of the rhetorical tradition; however, none of those words were spoken during her talk.)
Her stated desire is to promote the idea of some inconsequential touch leading to curiosity, which might lead to "becoming worldly" through "the inventiveness of play." I'm not going to do her wit justice here, but just trying to share a bit. She and Carol Adams already have struck a debate up over Derrida, so tomorrow promises to be interesting. ..many IU students attended, so perhaps they have questions or comments to add...
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