MONDAY NIGHT LECTURE SERIES | DOING NOTHING/NOTHING DOING | SPRING 2026

Rising Tide, Melting Glaciers: Differential Materialization, Relational Ontologies, Dispossession

This talk presents a forty-year-old project barely begun- let alone completed- that examines the ancestral present of glacial collapse in Carisolo, Trentino, from the point of view of the rising tides along Karrabing coastal lands in the Northern Territory of Australia. It asks what political analytic differences arise when we examine these aquatic transformations from the perspective of differential materializations rather than from the perspective of (comparative) relational ontologies?  how do those who have benefited from the extractive routes of invasion capitalism struggle to make sense of themselves and their world when the timeless truths that uphold their lives seem to be rapidly falling apart. What feels like a conceptual and political alternative to those who have benefited from the history of differential materializations.

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