<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div>Hi everyone, see attached these flyers for a performance next week, June 4. The description from one of the conveners follows:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Sending you here renovated and invigorated energy for this Week 9, and also very happy to be inviting you to "The Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft)", the performance that a group of artists and scientists from entomology, genetics, physics, and dance have put together for <b>Wednesday, June 4th</b>, <b>8 pm</b> at the <b>Arts 100</b>. </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">This experimentation has been guided by Prof. Sage Ni'Ja Whitson from the Black Studies Department and the designated emphasis in Speculative Fiction/Cultures of Science. The work rehearses an exercise of systematic knowledge production appropriating tools from science (like computer vision, synthesizers and electrodes to sonify plants) but from a queer perspective that privileges pleasure, the collective perception of beauty and reverence for the more-than-human.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>andré m. carrington </div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Associate Professor of English</div><div>University of California, Riverside</div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Director, </span><a href="https://sfts.ucr.edu/directors-report" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Designated Emphasis in Speculative Fictions & Cultures of Science</a><br></div><div>--</div><div>Editor, <a href="https://www.loa.org/books/the-black-fantastic-20-afrofuturist-stories-paperback/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">The Black Fantastic</a>, Library of America, 2025</div><div><a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/speculative-blackness" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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