Theory Fiction

Theory Fiction
M1/M2
English

Kodwo Eshun

The Theory Fiction Seminar for 2021-2022 will focus upon a close reading of Octavia E. Butler’s 1980 novel Wild Seed which can be understood as a thought experiment on the intertemporal dynamics of extrapolation, exploitation, evolution and enslavement. The collective reading of Wild Seed by the Seminar will function as a kind of libretto for an engagement with one scene from Wild Seed. This collectively selected scene will be notated, recited, voiced, performed, projected, videoed, recorded and amplified for a recital that situates itself at the ambiguous intersection between the formats of performance-lecture, sound-work, audio-essay, opera and podcast.