For their second round of presentations at Pushkin House, the cultural collective Everyone is a Girl introduces four speakers that tackle the problem of the body. The body has had a muddled and sultry decade in the world of critical theory as various new frameworks (posthumanism, transhumanism, corporeal feminism, OOO, etc.) attempt to take on its relation to other organisms, technology, and (a possible) higher consciousness.
In this series of presentations, four researchers – Carolina Grancho, Andrea Evgenieva, Sabina Oțolea, and Blue – guide us through their practices. We seek to inquisit: How do we react to, dismantle, or reconfigure mind/body dualism? What role should sexual difference play in our discussions of the body’s future, if any? What does it mean that certain spaces are now being designed for machines and profit, rather than the movement of bodies? Is the body a problem, or just a starting point?
The four presentations will be followed by an experimental, audience-focused discussion led by writer Noa Fischer. We will also be selling our zines and merch, and drinks will be available from the bar all night to accompany our perusal of the flesh and its limits.
This event is part of our YOUNG programme, which supports its members to realise their ideas at Pushkin House.
Her academic work sits at the intersection of the medical humanities and fashion studies where she attempts to perform a contemporary "écriture féminine", which is to say she doesn’t take her meds. Her other interests include (mostly Japanese) photography, continental philosophy, and digital networks of knowledge (re)production. She can be found either rotting in bed or downloading a new PDF.
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