The
exciting first annual Alchemy Lecture pulls four thinkers into
vibrant conversation on a topic of urgent relevance: humans and
borders. Unexpected, revelatory, mind-changing alchemy. With an
introduction by Christina Sharpe.
In
this groundbreaking inaugural Alchemy Lecture, four vital
contemporary thinkers from different disciplines and geographies come
together around the theme of Borders,
Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation.
This
year's alchemists are a philosopher, an architect, a poet, and a
cultural theorist--each deep and agile thinkers, on the cutting edge
of contemporary thought. In their beautiful, insightful, passionate
essays they think about the times we live in, the legacies of
anti-colonial struggle, the future of the planet, and the textures of
Black and Indigenous life. Braided together in this book, the essays
speak to each other in multiple ways, creating something more,
something deeper: a startling, revealing vision of the world as it
is, and as it could be.
Accompanied
each year by a live on-stage event in partnership with York
University, the Alchemy Lecture revolutionizes the form through the
transformative interplay of ideas among the alchemists. or a new way
of conceptualizing oppression, and she does it with her signature
blend of bravado and humility.
