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SUMMARY:The Exuvial Renaissance - Jason Scott Warren - SCR
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CONTACT:Stephan Ursprung
DESCRIPTION:When we think about human identity we often look inward\, to i
 nteriority or subjectivity. In his 1998 study Art and Agency\, the anthrop
 ologist Alfred Gell explores the idea that human personhood might more pro
 fitably be thought of as distributed beyond the body. We are made present\
 , he suggests\, in many times and places simultaneously\, via innumerable 
 intermediaries that remain part of the self as they are separated from it.
  He goes on to think of these distributions as ‘exuviae’\, borrowing a
  Latin word for ‘that which is stripped\, drawn or taken off from the bo
 dy\, clothing\, equipments\, arms\, etc’\, ‘the skin of an animal ... 
 his slough\, hide\, fleece or hair’\, and ‘spoils stripped from an ene
 my\, as arms\, booty\, etc’. A short list of exuvial properties might se
 t out from bodily extrusions such as blood\, sweat and tears\, moving outw
 ard through physical objects such as clothes\, souvenirs\, coins and funer
 ary monuments\, and onwards to posthumous avatars such as corpses\, ghosts
 \, relics and children\; seemingly intangible things such as your name and
  fame must be somewhere in the mix too. In this talk I will offer a very s
 hort introduction to the theory and practice of the exuvial\, and will exp
 lore some of its implications for thinking about the literary culture of t
 he Renaissance.
LOCATION:Senior Parlour\, Gonville and Caius College
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