Reading Rosa, pink & other colors The fifth series of ReadingRoom was running from October 2018 to June 2019, engaging CPC: the interlocking systems of capitalism – patriarchy – colonialism. In a lecture that Boaventura de Sousa Santos gave in Utrecht in May 2018 and that resonated with our fourth ReadingRoom series, he emphasized that

Relationality – Envisioning New Wor(l)dings The second series of ReadingRoom was running from September 2015 to February 2016, discussing relationality – envisioning new wor(l)dings. Relationality is one of the fundamental conditions of critical assessments and interventions today and has been very productively theorized in Caribbean thought and poetics. We engaged mainly with Fanon, Glissant and Wynter. Session One: Wednesday, 9 Sept / Thursday, 10 Sept

The third series of ReadingRoom ran from September 2016 until May 2017, entitled WHO CARES? – Politics and Poetics in the Affirmative. The series explored affirmation as a poetico-political tool to pass from opposition and negation to space-opening refusal – a bending of powers in new ways and in hope for greater generosity and gentleness, staying engaged and implicated with-in the

Un/learning: the p/re/distribution of knowledge The fourth series of ReadingRoom was running from February to June 2018, discussing un/learning: the p/re/distribution of knowledge. This series asked how we host, organize, and maintain knowledge and, more broadly, took up questions concerning access to, institutionalization of, and the distribution of knowledge in its many forms. For feminist, decolonial and anti-capitalist

The first series of ReadingRoom was running from December 2014 to May 2015, discussing speculation & fabulation – critique in the SF mode. Session one: Saturday, 13 Dec 2014 / Sunday, 14 Dec 2014 This session was part of a “seeance” led by filmmakers Graeme Thomson & Silvia Maglioni on Guattari’s unfilmed sci-fi screenplay Un Amour d’UIQ entitled: