Deadline: 12/14/2022
Contact: Robinson Murphy, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Email: rmurphy@hws.edu

Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

This panel will investigate the premise that the death drive—as it manifests in normative subjects in the contemporary West—has generated destruction on a macro scale in the form of global climate change. Though the death drive might seem to confirm homo sapiens’ inevitable suicide—extinction is what normative Western subjects actually desire—perhaps the death drive is not always-already destructive, but is rather something that can be partnered with productively… Might the era of human-induced climate change occasion a novel psychic flexibility, whereby the death drive can be re-channeled to productive ends?

Submit proposals by December 14, 2022 to Robinson Murphy, rmurphy@hws.edu.

Posted on October 9, 2022