Poetry and the Other (or, why political extremists rarely create great art)

Guest Lecture with Mara Lee, Professor of Art History and Theory at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design.

She will talk about the ability of poetry, literature, and art to enhance our understanding of subjectivity in relation to a thinking with and through the Other. Or, as Anne Carson puts it (in Wrong Norma, New Directions, 2024):
"Without the face, no ethics: this is an old idea. But also, without the face, no function for me, nothing to write about. No one can make sentences using only verbs. No one can tell a story without believing in the reality of others."

The lecture is part of a symposium on the concept of l’autre, organized by the research network Histories and Futures of French Travelling Concepts, in collaboration with Forum Modernism and the Interdisciplinary Seminar at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics.

Photo: Emma Hansson

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