An academic talk presented by Professor Clare Colebrook at Western Sydney University!
Stay tuned for a wonderful talk, presented by Prof. Clare Colebrook, and hosted by Western Sydney University at 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm, on Thursday, 7 August 2025, Hybrid Online OR Building O, Room 20, WSU Kingswood Campus.
In this talk, Professor Colebrook reconsiders Deleuze’s conception of art in the context of the Anthropocene, exploring why a modified pedagogy of chaos is urgently needed in an age of brutal literalism.
What value might art have at the end of the world?
One answer would be to claim that art ought to make sense of the present, either by enabling activism or offering solace. But philosopher Gilles Deleuze offered a radically different view: that art is a pedagogy of chaos – a destruction of sense that opens new ways of thinking and feeling.
About the Speaker:
Claire Colebrook is the Cecile Parrish Chair of Literature at Monash University. She is the author of numerous works on Deleuze, queer theory, gender theory, and the environmental humanities. Her latest book is Who Would You Kill to Save the World (Nebraska, 2022).
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