Illiberalism, war, violence and authoritarianism: the current conjuncture

Drawing from various radical anti-colonial thinkers, the talk will posit a history of liberalism and its deep relationship to illiberalism, raising questions of the figure of the human and of life itself.

We live in a tumultuous world in which there is the regularisation of death. We live in a world in which the stories of human life are told in tales of death. Is this a new conjuncture? Are we at the end of neoliberalism? How did we get here? Are there histories which have morphed into a dangerous present?

This talk will attempt to think through our current moment by arguing that perhap one element of the core of the present catastrophic crisis are the ways in which the figure of the human and life itself has been configured. Drawing from various radical anti-colonial thinkers the talk will posit a history of liberalism and its deep relationship to illiberalism.

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