#  “Opacity/Opacification: Perspectives on Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Politics” workshop  

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 4, 2023** 

 09:30AM - 06:00PM EDT 

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 **Finnegan Room, Barker 403**  



 

 



 

 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>.

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