Speakers

Speakers Shepherd Steiner Erin Manning Erin Manning is Research Chair in Speculative Pragmatism, Art and Pedagogy at Concordia University, and Director of the SenseLab. She is an exhibiting artist and her books include Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (2009), Always More Than One: Individuation's Dance (2013), Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience, which she co-wrote with Brian Massumi (2014), and finally The Minor Gesture (2016). A few years ago she visited the University of Manitoba and presented an essay on Alfred North Whitehead and the cut and it has stuck with me. If I am not mistaken, part of it will appear in a forthcoming book titled For a Pragmatics of the Useless. It was in the depths of the lockdown last spring that we first spoke about the possibility of a lecture, and I think that very uncertain—relative—time is part of the backstory for the lecture you will hear today. The title of Dr. Manning's lecture is "The Untimely Impersonal." [End Page ix] Paul Huebener Paul Huebener is Associate Professor of English in the Centre for Humanities at Athabasca University. His research focuses on time and its relation to power, most recently the intersection of time and sleep. One recent essay, "Stealing Sleep," and the title of his essay today, "Sleep Through This Talk," remind me of the mimetic relationship urged upon viewers by Bik Van der Pol's Sleep With Me, an iterative film installation that involves the rescreening of Andy Warhol's 1964 film Sleep, with pillows and blankets in the gallery provided. His books include Nature's Broken Clocks: Reimagining Time in the Face of the Environmental Crisis (2020) and Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture (2015). Finally, in 2017, with Susie O'Brien, Tony Porter, Liam Stockdale, and Yanqiu Rachel Zhou, Heubener co-edited the books Time and Globalization: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue and Time, Globalization and Human Experience: Interdisciplinary Explorations. His lecture today is titled "Sleep Through This Talk: Imagination and the Paradox of Sleep in a Restless World." Jonas Staal Jonas Staal goes by the description of visual artist dealing with the relationship between art, propaganda, and democracy. I think this falls well short of the incredible range of projects Staal has been involved in and the complexity of ways his practice transforms art, gives propaganda a positive valence, and radicalizes our notion of democracy. By assembling the underrepresented, giving a voice to them and amplifying these in such a way that we ourselves become loudspeakers for them, his projects potentially make Democracy's future poly-vocal. Some of his projects include The New World Summit, Collectivize Facebook, Climate Propagandas, and the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes, which has just opened in Amsterdam with the collaboration of Radha D'Souza. His books include Nosso Lar, Brasilia (2014), Steve Bannon: A Propaganda Retrospective (2018), and Propaganda Art in the 21st Century (2019). The title of Staal's lecture today is "Collectivize Time, Redistribute the Future," and given that his politics are performative or propositional, I think he would agree if I suggest that you focus on the content as well as take up a position beside him upstream from content. [End Page x] Denise Ferreira da Silva Denise Ferreira da Silva is the Director of the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia, and both an academic and a practicing artist. Her work addresses the ethico-political challenges of the global present with particular emphasis on raciality as a temporal predicament—so the question of Relative Time/Little Time is near at hand. I first encountered her very compelling work on violence, value, and blackness in the film work INFINITY Minus Infinity by the Otolith Group. But I think I have already said too much, because she puts race, colonialism, and capital in relation and motion in ways that are more complex than I can articulate or summarize using these key words. Her books include Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007), A Dívida Impagavel (2019), and Unpayable Debt (2022). With Paula Chakravartty, she co-edited Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (2013). She has collaborated on...

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