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We have never been disenchanted: de-privileging the partial perspective of modernity I 
Convenors:
JoAnn Conrad (Diablo Valley College. Univ. of Iceland)
Lotten Gustafsson Reinius (Stockholm University Nordiska museet)
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Chair:
JoAnn Conrad (Diablo Valley College. Univ. of Iceland)
Discussant:
Lotten Gustafsson Reinius (Stockholm University Nordiska museet)
Format:
Panel
Stream:
TEMPORALITIES
:
Room K-205
Sessions:
Tuesday 14 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

Modernity's evolutionary, technological, and biological narratives are premised on the assertion that modernity is defined by disenchantment. Everyday penetrations and perturbations in the landscape destabilize this notion. Our affective attachment to these sites have never been not enchanted.

Long Abstract:

The epistemological and ontological limitations that undergird the discourses of modernity divided the world into reductionist binaries: Nature/culture; reason/superstition; science/magic; progress/tradition; male/female; the West/the Rest. These hierarchical dualisms are embedded in Western teleological theories which hold that modernity is characterized by progress, a break with the past, and a state of disenchantment. But this androcentric fairy tale of modernity has no happy ending and has now delivered us into a cluster of existential crises. The interconnected Anthropocene, Pandemocene, Pyrocene, Plantationocene, and Capitalocene all represent a failure of imagination in dominant Western discourses and demand a different cultural frame of reference to stimulate our imagination into an entirely different epistemology and ontology.

In this panel we take the position that we have never been disenchanted. We call upon scholars from various intersecting perspectives to challenge and indeed negate the 'hyperseparation' of Western binaries by reexamining various penetrations, disruptions, perturbations, and reconfigurations in the cultural and natural landscapes as sites of enchantment that can serve to destabilize the great Western evolutionary, technological, and biological narratives. Taking inspiration from Haraway's "reinvention of Nature," we seek hybrid, multi-vocal narratives -- bio-political, bio-technological, eco-feminist -- to not only lay bare the structuring narrative of modernity by which dominations of race, sex, class, sexuality have been normalized in existing systems of exploitation, but to suggest narrative alternatives that acknowledge an affective attachment to the world in those everyday sites in which the marvelous erupts to create a sense of enchantment.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Tuesday 14 June, 2022, -
Panel Video visible to paid-up delegates