13 min
S1 E5 Jack Halberstam: Lessons in Disruption Radical Encounter
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- Society & Culture
Sofia Varino talks with Jack Halberstam at the Cyborg conference at the Disruption Lab in Berlin, during which he gave a talk about the politics and ethics of human enhancement technologies. Halberstam is professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California and one of the most influential queer theorists today. He is the author of works like Female Masculinity, The Queer Art of Failure and Gaga Feminism and is working on a new project on the radical possibilities of “the wild” as a transgressive category. This conversation took place in the lobby of the Bethanien Kunstraum, one of Berlin’s main exhibition spaces for contemporary art, and the imposing architecture and transience of the space helped shape our conversation.
Sofia Varino talks with Jack Halberstam at the Cyborg conference at the Disruption Lab in Berlin, during which he gave a talk about the politics and ethics of human enhancement technologies. Halberstam is professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California and one of the most influential queer theorists today. He is the author of works like Female Masculinity, The Queer Art of Failure and Gaga Feminism and is working on a new project on the radical possibilities of “the wild” as a transgressive category. This conversation took place in the lobby of the Bethanien Kunstraum, one of Berlin’s main exhibition spaces for contemporary art, and the imposing architecture and transience of the space helped shape our conversation.
13 min