About this Event
Please join the editors of e-flux journal on Tuesday, March 11 at 7pm for an evening launching the journal’s issue #152, featuring the fourth and final installment of Evan Calder Williams’s essay series “On Paralysis.” Read the previous installments here: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
Paralysis has become a term and idea inseparable from contemporary understandings of subjectivity, infrastructure, politics, and war. Conjuring associations of indecision, physical immobility, and trauma, it names a breakdown of the normal processes of circulation and information that promise systemwide health and seamless flow. But what if the very smoothness of these circuits of production is precisely what debilitates human bodies and broader systems of relay and exchange? And what are the potentials for refusal and unexpected agency that can be found in the interval when nothing works like it’s supposed to?
For the launch, Williams will have a conversation with e-flux journal editor Brian Kuan Wood about stoppage, sabotage, disability, delay, and damage, as well as the critical tools the “On Paralysis” series finds in the hidden intimacies between limited movement and expressive power.
Bios
Brian Kuan Wood is an editor of e-flux journal.
Evan Calder Williams is Associate Professor at the Center for Curatorial Studies for Bard College, where he also teaches in the Human Rights program. He is the author of the books Combined and Uneven Apocalypse; Roman Letters; Shard Cinema; and, forthcoming with Sternberg Press in 2025, Inhuman Resources. He is a Contributing Editor to e-flux journal and is the translator, with David Fernbach, of Mario Mieli’s Towards a Gay Communism. His first novel is forthcoming with Riverhead Books.
For more information, please contact program [at] e-flux.com.
Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program [at] e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the event space and this bathroom
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
e-flux, 172 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, United States
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