A panel discussion of Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination

Chris Philo’s book offers the first attempt to systematically explore the ‘geographies’ integral to the thinking of Theodor Adorno, whose writings—on philosophy and sociology, politics and culture, literature and music—were often framed precisely against the threat of fascistic regression. By disclosing Adorno’s geographies, the shape of a geographical antifascism comes into view as a transformative restatement of critical geography’s spirit and purpose.

Chris Philo will introduce the book before responding to commentaries from Stuart Elden, on the book’s place within geographical interventions in the history of ideas, and from Felicitas Kübler, on Adorno in the 1960s and his relationship to student activism. There will also be opportunity for questions and more general discussion.

Please note that registration for this seminar will close 24 hours in advance so that the meeting link can be distributed to registered attendees.

All welcome- this seminar is free to attend, but booking is required.

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