Media, Transmission, Event
  

Lecture by Susan Schuppli

17 JAN, 2 – 5pm, RHB 312 – Centre for Res. Arch.

“Forensic Imagination is a conceptual provocation and adaptive mode of investigation that is specifically directed towards a critical and practical engagement with material culture. As such the practice of forensics and the concept of imagination are brought together to create a space wherein scientific and cultural practices meet to pose questions about what can be established as a potential fact and what can be envisioned as a propositional fiction. How might non-empirical things such as creative works also provide useful knowledges about the world? Can a redistribution that manifests itself in the form of transactions between facts and fictions be operative in the world and visible as attributes of its material reality? This research takes its cues from philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers who urges us to let the material speak rather than to impose answers onto matter. “We must accept the possibility that it is not man but the material that ‘asks’ the questions, that has a story to tell, which one has to learn to unravel.”

Optional Reading
Massumi, Brian. “The Political Economy of Belonging.” Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.

  
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