# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Star-Gazing as Aesthetic Politics
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 04 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 04 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Prof. Seán Cubitt examines some histories of relations with the night sky as a way of thinking through aesthetics and politics.About this EventThis talk examines some histories of relations with the night sky as a way of thinking through histories of aesthetics and politics. Aesthetics is thinking about beauty and the senses. Beauty extends to the loveliness of the starry night. Senses extend beyond the narrow range of the five senses. Before the domestication of fire, quite possibly before language, the night sky enthralled and overwhelmed ancestors, drove them underground, and framed their first forays into art. This paper imagines star-gazing as cultural motif and political management. Once the meeting place of humans, gods and ancestors, the night sky became by turns a constellation of objects for religious, instrumental and scientific instruction. A more-than-human aesthetic politics begins in awe, considers objectivity and subjectivity and, drawing on indigenous wisdom, begins the task of healing the rifts between humans, ancestors and ecologies.Seán Cubitt is Professorial Fellow of Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne. His publications include Ecomedia,The Cinema Effect, The Practice of Light, Finite Media, Anecdotal Evidence and two volumes on aesthetic politics, Truth and Good. He researches ecocritical approaches to the history and philosophy of media.This talk is organized by Queen's University Film & Media Department with the support of the Chancellor Dunning Trust lectureship and the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute.Image: Matariki (Pleiades), Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, New Zealand, by Fraser Gunn. Source: UNESCO Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy
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- **city**: Kingston
- **state**: ON
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: Isabel Bader Centre, room 222 (Screening Room)
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- **full address**: Isabel Bader Centre, room 222 (Screening Room), 390 King St W, Kingston, Canada

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