VIRTUAL LECTURE: Santiago Zabala - Being at Large

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Santiago Zabala, author of Being at Large: Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts, will discuss the theme of the "Narrative of Emergency" as part of the Conferences portion of AMRO 2020.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Tracing an intellectual alliance between academics such as Jordan Peterson and Christina Hoff Sommers and right-wing populist politicians such as Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen, Being at Large denounces framings that make a claim to objectivity. With the help of contemporary thinkers including Bruno Latour, Judith Butler, and Giorgio Agamben, as well as discussion of the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie and the emergency of biodiversity loss due to climate change, Santiago Zabala illustrates that the twenty-first-century question is not whether we can be free, but how to be at large - unconstrained by the new realist order.

Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at Pompeu Fabra University.