Online Talk: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay "Potential h/Histories"

In her book "Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism" (Verso 2019), the scholar of political theory and photography Ariella Aïsha Azoulay offers various tactics in order to refuse the narrative order imposed by the dominant, western onto-epistemological framework; and craft “nonimperial grammars”. As she writes: “Unlearning imperialism involves different types of “de-”, such as decompressing and decoding; “re-”, such as reversing and rewinding; and “un-”, such as unlearning and undoing. (…) Such rehearsals in nonimperial political thinking and archival practice are not undertaken in preparation for an imminent day of reckoning, but rather as a mode of being with others differently.”

This online conversation with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay will inaugurate Qalqalah قلقلة’s four-month affiliation with TQW and allow us to sketch some of the theoretical and methodological questions that we would like to enact during the rest of the programme.

Registration: Potential h/Histories - Tanzquartier Wien (tqw.at)