Juicy Carcasses, Abundant Futures: Detritus as Nourishment

Catalog description

This course challenges students to listen to the wisdom of scavengers, and transform that which is discarded. It explores how those in the margins can reconstruct new worlds from the still active, reeking remains of (post)coloniality. It considers carefully Homi Bhabha’s idea of the Third Space, and Fred Moten’s idea of Noise and fugitive listening, that calls us to cease resisting dominant hegemonies with the tools of their making, and instead find each other outside of the binary of oppression/resistance, within a space of our own invention. This course explores what we can pick at from these juicy carcasses of colonialism and its many forms, and what dreams and futures we can imagine with them, all the while drawing inspiration from non-human detritivores.