The Anemy of the Liberal Script for Science: Apocrypha, Misology, Misoneism, and Cryptomnesia with Professor Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui

Join us for Inside the The Anemy of the Liberal Script for Science: Apocrypha, Misology, Misoneism, and Cryptomnesia, a public talk with Professor Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui. This talk is part of a 2023-2024 Andrew Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Evasion: Thinking the Underside of Surveillance, and will discuss limits of the ‘liberal script’ as a means of both understanding and ‘policing’ marronage. 

About the Talk:

The viability, if not success, of self-constitution during marronage depended on consciousness, language, and self-imposed scripts or imaginaries of the future. These were predicated upon conceptions of the material conditions (including of governance, economy, society) and moral precepts (of say law, ethics, and culture) of new political orders. The implied orders and their properties and functions have eluded political theory, in part because the latter’s linguistic and symbolic precepts belong to the arsenal or assemblages of thought that marronage was intended to subvert. The following deals with limits of the ‘liberal script’ as a means of both understanding and ‘policing’ marronage. In the first instance, the terms of maroon’s conceptions of freedom appear in liberal canons arbitrarily as insignificant, as if dissociable from modernity and its underlying processes. On the other hand, the archives of liberal orthodoxies foreclose any other script of freedom but its own. The underlying mechanisms of foreclosure of thought in relation to freedom is at the heart of this lecture.