What does the futures of monster theory hold? And what stories can we tell about its origins? These are questions we asked for our Monsters of the Anthropocene Halloween symposium ‘Unruly Origins, Strange Futures’ (2021), aiming to explore the pasts and futures of thinking with monsters through art, politics, storytelling and scholarship. We are delighted to bring two conversations from this event – here redesigned as podcasts for this years’ Halloween!
Strange Futures, Unruly Origins: Collectives revolves around community building as well as structures of inclusion and exclusion, or inclusiveness and exclusiveness. We invite a discussion on the politics and ethics as well as aesthetics of communities and collective voices in order to explore the premises but also the limitations of monstrous kinship, family, and community in the now, in the past and in potential futures. One of the questions behind the organising of this panel has been, in times of crisis, be they for example ecological political, medical, or technological, who get to belong and who are marginalised and potentially monsterised. With professor, Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) and two collectives: Not Lone Wolf Collective and The Monster Network. Hosted by Aino-Kaisa Koistinen from The Monster Network.
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