I International Conference I International Precarity, Populism and Conferencepost Truth Politics Precarity, Populism and Post Truth Politics
I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE I INTERNATIONAL PRECARITY, POPULISM AND CONFERENCEPOSTTRUTH POLITICS PRECARITY, POPULISM AND POSTTRUTH POLITICS P INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRECARPITPY, POPULISM AND POST-TRUTH POLITICS 1 3 FEBRUARY 2018 / CÓRDOBA SPAIN BOOKLET OF ABSTRACTS 1 3 FEBRUARY 2018 / CÓRDOBA SPAIN BOOKLET OF ABSTRACTS BOOKLET OF ABSTRACTS BOOKLET OF ABSTRACTS PLENARY LECTURES Elleke Boehmer, Oxford University, UK Reading Protest: Postcolonial Poetics Today The paper will explore reading as itself a resistance practice, in a field, the postcolonial, that has in the past often assumed that the interrogation of colonial, postcolonial or indeed post- truth conditions arises from what is represented in the text, rather than from the reader’s engagement with the text. I will consider those forms that may stimulate and guide such resistant reading, including what I call the poetics of juxtaposition and confrontation, but also effects of persistence, continuation, and endurance, effects that are reinforced and enhanced through the operation of various diachronic techniques. I will demonstrate these ideas through readings of poetry by Serote and Putuma and short stories by divers hands. Tabish Khair, Aarhus University, Denmark Fictions, Facts and Post-Truth The talk will look at ‘post-truth’ as a consequence of traditional concepts of fixed truths and the contemporary failure to distinguish between relativism and contextualisation. It will then discuss the impact of digitalisation on culture and politics, leading to a precarious scenario where people can talk of a ‘post-truth’ age. Finally, it will argue that an engagement with literature, along with a contentious definition of it, is essential to any bid to find a way out.
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