This talk will focus on John Boorman\u2019s cult 1974 film\u00a0Zardoz\u00a0<\/i>as an exemplar of what Galluzzo calls \u201cCritical Aquarianism\u201d\u2014a constellation of 1970s-era artists and thinkers who anticipate such present day phenomena as \u201cdegrowth\u201d and Kohei Saito\u2019s decelerationist \u201ceco-communism.\u201d Much of the sixties-era counterculture, like the modernist ideologies it superficially questioned, still equated liberation or freedom with endless growth conceived in quantitative terms. Both old and new lefts, for example, wanted more\u2014from the orthodox Marxists\u2019 liberated forces of production to unleashed appetites and unhindered individualism promoted by large swathes of the counterculture. What distinguished the disparate artists and thinkers that Galluzzo is calling \u201cCritical Aquarian\u201d was their focus on limits and self-limitation as key to a more substantive form of liberation. And it should be said that ecology and a dawning awareness of the environmental crisis played a significant role in this line of thought, although\u2014as this talk hopes to show in its reading of Boorman\u2019s film and its relationship with the overpopulation panic of the late sixties and seventies\u2014this discourse of limits was distinct from or even opposed to the technocratic neo-Malthusianism, in many ways indistinguishable from neo-colonialism, that dominated a mainstream environmental movement that too often viewed nature (and non-white peoples) as standing reserve or resources to be managed so as to efficiently maximize capitalist growth patterns.<\/p>\n
Register here:\u00a0https:\/\/videoconf-colibri.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJUvfuihrjMrHNYrl7nMDTBDqd-YIv4bXbmy<\/a><\/p>\n Anthony Galluzzo<\/b> is a writer and academic from New York, whose work focuses on degrowth utopias and a constellation of thinkers he dubs Critical Aquarians, offering an alternate route out of the current social and ecological crisis.\u00a0Galluzzo\u2019<\/b>s new book\u00a0Against the Vortex\u00a0<\/i>(Zer0 Books) is available here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.collectiveinkbooks.com\/zer0-books\/our-books\/against-vortex-zardoz-degrowth-utopias<\/a><\/p>\n Hosted by Manuel Sousa Oliveira (University of Porto \/ CETAPS) .\u00a0In partnership with Zer0 Books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This talk will focus on John Boorman\u2019s cult 1974 film\u00a0Zardoz\u00a0as an exemplar of what Galluzzo calls \u201cCritical Aquarianism\u201d\u2014a constellation of 1970s-era artists and thinkers who anticipate such present day phenomena as \u201cdegrowth\u201d and Kohei Saito\u2019s decelerationist \u201ceco-communism.\u201d Much of the sixties-era counterculture, like the modernist ideologies it superficially questioned, still equated liberation or freedom with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[27],"area-tag":[],"class_list":["post-4163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conferences","tag-cultures-of-the-future"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4165,"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions\/4165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4163"},{"taxonomy":"area-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devnull.pt\/cetaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area-tag?post=4163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}