Event Description
In an era of sudden closures— where violence is normalized and the masquerade of accountability is ever more cynically deployed— how do we think, live, and dream otherwise in an entangled, planetary world getting more hard-edged by the day?
This urgent conversation moderated by ISF Curator-in-Residence Am Johal, brings together globally renowned thinkers Glen Coulthard, Brenna Bhandar, and Alberto Toscano to explore the contours and potency of radical philosophy and theory— and what they can bring to the contemporary political and conceptual battlefield.
This panel is an invitation to think collectively, sharpen our tools for resilience and resistance, and reimagine what solidarity looks like in a time of global crisis.
If you’re searching for language for what feels unspeakable and frameworks for action beyond the status quo, this is the conversation you can’t afford to miss.
Speakers
Am Johal has previously been Director of SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Co-Director of SFU's Community Engaged Research Initiative and host of the podcast, Below the Radar. He is the author of Ecological Metapolitics: Badiou and the Anthropocene (2015), co-author with Matt Hern of Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale (2018) and O My Friends, There is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology (2024). He is currently Chair of the Vancouver International Film Festival, Vice Chair of Greenpeace Canada and a board member with the BC Alliance for Arts and Culture. He has presented his work internationally, including the Oxford Literature Festival.
Brenna Bhandar is Associate Professor of Law at UBC, and author of Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership (2018), and co-editor (with Rafeef Ziadah) of Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought (2018).
Glen Coulthard teaches political theory and Indigenous politics at the University of British Columbia. He is Yellowknives Dene.
Alberto Toscano is the author of Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis, Terms of Disorder: Keywords of an Interregnum, Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri, and (with J. Kinkle) Cartographies of the Absolute. He is the co-editor (with B. Noys) of Georges Bataille’s Critical Essays (3 vols) and (with S. Bromberg, S. Farris and B. Skeggs) of The SAGE Handbook of Marxism. He edits the series Seagull Essays and The Italian List for Seagull Books and is a columnist for In These Times.
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