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SUMMARY:The Arctic at the End of the World: Hannah Arendt and the Narratio
 n of Apocalypse - Stephen Lezak\, University of Cambridge (SPRI)
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CONTACT:Alice Oates
DESCRIPTION:The Arctic is summoned as a harbinger of apocalypse. Too drama
 tic? Maybe. Then again\, headlines crop up with increasing frequency annou
 ncing that the entire region is "in a death spiral” or “on the brink
 ” of some more-than-discursive precipice. The implication: as goes the A
 rctic\, so goes the planet. \n\nFor fifty years—a relative blink in the 
 lifespan of homo sapiens—the prospect of technologically mediated global
  apocalypse has haunted public and private imaginaries. What began with nu
 clear anxieties has shifted into climatic ones. All the while\, the intima
 te politics of anonymous catastrophe remain\, blinking through the limelig
 ht. The “end of the world” is increasingly studied by geographers as a
  phenomenon—but we’re playing catch-up. \n\nFor this PHaSS session\, w
 e’ll bring the Arctic at the end of the world into conversation with the
  pre-apocalyptic writing of political theorist Hannah Arendt\, to venture 
 a little farther into our current moment of dark ecology (Morton\, 2010). 
 In particular\, we’ll ask how Arendt’s ideas of worldlessness might he
 lp us understand how the narration of apocalypse mediates the anxieties of
  mass society by providing a sense of historicity\, purpose\, and place. W
 e ask: what if\, for those who would otherwise feel lost in the oceanic ch
 urn of mass society\, the apocalyptic moment is not an experience of being
  lost\, but rather of being found\, reoriented to a world that suddenly ne
 eds us? To a world that suddenly cares. The Arctic is just the beginning. 
 \n\nSuggested reading ahead of the workshop: https://emergencemagazine.org
 /essay/meltwater-a-timepiece-for-the-arctic/ \n
LOCATION:Zoom
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