Elena Petrovskaya is a philosopher, and senior researcher at the Institute of
Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is the author of A Part of
the World (1995), Optic Games (1997), Undeveloped: Essays on the Philosophy of
Photography (2002), Antiphotography (2003), Beside Imagination: Contemporary
Philosophy and Contemporary Art (in collaboration with Oleg Aronson)
(2009).
In what respect can one discuss utopia today? Is it a literary genre or an
intellectual construct that allows one to overcome current stereotypes? Why is
utopian literature so dry and austere? What does the future as a different
temporality mean and must we understand it in accordance with the linear
concept of time? In her lecture Elena Petrovskaya will address these questions
and the theoretical texts by Fredric Jameson, Jacques Derrida and Walter
Benjamin.
Admission free, limited places, booking required
