ARUN SALDANHA Friday June 2nd

Friday June 2nd 3PM - Room 143 Goldsmiths Main Building

SEPRO presents: a talk by ARUN SALDANHA

DELEUZE AND RACIAL DIFFERENCE

Keen to insist on the rhizomatic, Deleuzianism has so far had little to say on race, leaving it to psychoanalysis and deconstruction to investigate the intricacies of the "social construction" of racial difference. My project seeks to retrieve a critical ontological potential from Deleuze and Guattari's work to argue for the differential materiality of race. That is, race does exist, but races don't: bodies become progressively stuck in uneven assemblages which constantly transform, but largely keep them locked in what might be called racial clusters. This paper argues it's high time to stop the political blunting of D&G, especially their explorations of racism and capitalism.

BIO ARUN SALDANHA Graduated in Communication Studies, Free University of Brussels, 1997. Worked as Teaching Assistant there, 1997-2000. PhD in Geography at the Open University, 2000-2003. Since 2004 Assistant Professor in Geography atthe University of Minnesota. Research interests include music, tourism, colonialism and drugs. Theoretical interests revolve around Deleuze, race and feminism. I've got a book coming out with the University of Minnesota Press next spring, Psychedelic Whiteness: Rave Tourism and the Viscosity of Race in Goa.
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