NICHE Annual Lecture 2023 | Prof. Elizabeth Povinelli

Rising Tides, Melting Glaciers: Semiotics after Geontopower.
Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology & Gender Studies, Columbia University
Australian Academy of the Humanities, Corresponding Fellow
Professorial Fellow, Centre for Creative Futures, Charles Darwin University
Karrabing Film Collective, www.karrabing.info
most recently: Routes/Worlds eflux/Sternberg
Abstract:
Using examples of rising tides in Karrabing country and melting glaciers in her ancestral lands in Carisolo Trentino, Povinelli asks what is at stake in developing a geontosemiotics which demonstrates how Nonlife is an interpretive agent in contemporary climate collapse and a semiotics after geontopower which focuses on the uneven sedimentations of the colonial invasions of the Atlantic and Pacific.