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Humanities

Public Talk: “Extinction Poetics” with Carolyn Fornoff (Cornell University)

October 30, 2024 at 3:45pm5:15pm EDT

Bird Library, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, Room 114

Public talk by Dr. Carolyn Fornoff (Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies, Cornell University). Fornoff will discuss her first book, Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change (Vanderbilt University Press, 2024). The book traces how contemporary filmmakers and writers in Mexico have shifted away from art’s evidentiary function (its ability to prove environmental crisis) and toward more subjunctive registers of hypothesis and uncertainty that grapple with how the world could be imagined otherwise.

This event was first published on August 22, 2024 and last updated on September 5, 2024.


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