On October 4, Vera Thomann (Vienna) and Christian Struck (Harvard) will host a workshop on Opacity/Opacification. Perspectives on Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Politics, with Emmanuel Alloa (Fribourg/Yale) and Sebastien Fanzun (Zürich) as guest speakers. A reader of the texts that to be discussed will be sent closer to the date to those who have registered. The program is as follows:

9:30 am Introduction (Struck/Thomann)

9:45–11:15 Being Opaque. On the Ambivalent Politics of Invisibility (Alloa)

11:30–1:00 Outside of the Real Estate: Bee Politics as Generative Opacity (Fanzun)

1:00 Lunch Break

2:00–3:30 Fog of War. Information Horizons and Opaque Knowledge (Thomann)

3:45–5:15 The Right to Appear — The Privilege to Stay Out of Sight (Struck)

5:15 Final Discussion

Coffee and pastries will be served. Please send your registration by September 22 to vera.thomann@ds.uzh.ch and cstruck@g.harvard.edu.