Modern human subjects necessarily operate on three levels of temporality simultaneously: every-day temporality, biographical time, and the historical age or epoch. In this event, Hartmut Rosa will argue that in late-modern society, owing to processes and pressures of acceleration, the three levels of time have become fragmented and disintegrated; temporal resonance has given way to temporal alienation.

We all yearn for connection and community, but we live in complex societies where we need to learn to live with people we disagree with. Failing to do so can result in social division and violence. How are we to handle these contrasting needs? In this event, Avram Alpert will argue that we need a conception of belonging that is as complex as the lives we lead – one that both meets our needs for community and can make sense of the inevitable difficulties we face.

In this event, Lida Maxwell will explore how Rachel Carson's experience of queer love enabled her to develop an increasingly critical view of capitalism’s dangerous and loveless exhaustion of both nonhuman nature and human lives alike. As Maxwell will argue, it was this evolution that set the scene for Carson’s masterpiece, Silent Spring, the legacy of which is to offer us a path toward a more loving use of nature.