A Sense of Displacement: Stuart Hall's Art of Living

Описание: LECTURE AND CONVERSATION
WITH  David Scott with Mojisola Adebayo, Kadija George, Khwezi Mkhize, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

It is with great joy that we cordially invite you, together with the RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms, to an evening with David Scott in conversation with Mojisola Adebayo, Kadija George, Khwezi Mkhize and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on one of the most eminent Caribbean-British thinkers. David Scott’s presentation is a partial prolegomena to a biography of the Jamaican-British radical intellectual Stuart Hall (1932–2014). Hall was a founder of the first British New Left and subsequently, British cultural studies, in the context of which he engaged across a wide range of thematic and theoretical domains, from Marxism and semiotics to the visual arts and Black identity, with large global impact. But above all, as David Scott argues, Hall was a thinker defined by a dialogical style, a way of being an intellectual. In this sense, Scott is going to think about Hall as an intellectual in the tradition of the art of living, someone for whom attunement rather than truth was the objective. Animating this art of living is his abiding (cosmopolitan, modernist) sense of dissonance and displacement. These were not just cognitive but embodied foundations of his approach to the world. In a provisional way, Scott’s presentation will aim to clarify some of the senses in which dissonance and displacement were less theories of politics and culture than ethical modes of being a critical self.

The RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms aims at critically rethinking the Eurocentric legacy of the cosmopolitan project from marginalized, silenced postcolonial perspectives. We are glad to collaborate on the occasion of David Scott’s lecture and the podium discussion on Stuart Hall’s legacy.

This event is a collaboration of SAVVY Contemporary with the RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms – jointly conducted by the University of Potsdam, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).