How to Avoid Temporalities of Progress?

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Despite living in times of extinctions and exterminations, we continue to hold on to a human time scale, with progress as the yardstick for our lives. This fervor to chase after success or salvation with no concern for what is left behind results in a forward flight that contaminates the future while trying to erase the past. “Staying with the trouble,” says Donna Haraway, “requires learning to be truly present…as mortal critters entwined.”

In this session independent curator and philosopher Laura Benítez and researcher and writer Pol Guasch discuss how to conceive different temporalities—human and non-human—what worlds each temporality generates and how narrative arts allow us to generate stories of continuity: how can we be truly present? How can we assume the responsibilities of our stories of the past and our understanding of the present and future? How do the past, present and future intertwine? What narratives of temporality encourage us to think of ourselves as mortal critters entwined? How can we generate earthly stories from non-human scales?

This session will be held in Spanish/Catalan. 

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