Lecture
Emergency of Emergencies: Aesthetics and Politics of Climate Justice
Dr. T.J. Demos critiques dominant definitions of the climate emergency, arguing for an intersectional framework linking climate justice to anti-capitalist, decolonial, and anti-racist struggles. He highlights activist movements and art as drivers of transformative change.
Learning Objectives
The learning objectives for this lecture are to:
- Climate justice defines a framework that is comprehensive and intersectional, linking environmental thinking to socio-political activism.
- Climate justice indicts capitalism as the dominant world-historical system responsible for catastrophic environmental transformation.
- Climate justice proposals entail thinking beyond racial and colonial capitalism.
- Climate justice art advances Indigenous decolonization and abolition, in defining our horizon of an emancipatory future.
Dr. T.J. Demos is Professor of Art History at UC Santa Cruz and Founding Director of the Center for Creative Ecologies. He is the author of numerous books on art, ecology, and decolonization.
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