UCLA/Digital Humanities Distinguished Annual Lecture: T.J Demos

In this talk, Prof. T.J. Demos, an award-winning writer whose work focuses on the intersection of contemporary art, global politics, and ecology, will be asking the question: when the violent repression of community activism at the nexus of abolition, decolonization, and environmentalism is compounded by forces of contemporary counterinsurgency that are operating to prevent any political transformation beyond the status quo, how might a prehensive climate-justice-directed art history, and an insurgent arts of the possible, meaningfully respond? Books include The Migrant Image Art and Politics of Documentary During the Global Crisis (2013), Decolonizing Nature Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (2016), Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (2017), Beyond the World’s End: Arts of living at the Crossing (2020) and Radical Futurisms Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come (2023).