After (Post)colonial Tragedy – The Aesthetics of Eco-Planetary Futurity
Below is the abstract of a paper I will be giving at the ‘Crossroads in Cultural Studies 2018’ conference in Shanghai next week. I’ve been interested in ecological and environmental issues for a long...
View ArticleSupreme Fiction
Remembering Mum – She would have been 84 on 28 Aug. Supreme Fiction, a poem I wrote at the time of her passing. ‘For each time, and each time singularly, each time irreplaceably, each time infinitely,...
View ArticleStudy group on Black Aesthetics with Denise Ferreira da Silva
Recently participated in this event with Denise Ferreira Da Silva at the ICA London. https://www.ica.art/on/learning/study-group-black-aesthetics-led-denise-ferreira-da-silva Advertisements
View ArticleCosmopolitics #1
Recent event I contributed to in Naples. Notes to come on ‘cosmopoetics’, opacity, spacetime mattering and the interminable crisis of racial capitalism. COSMOPOLITICS#1 Round tables – Screenings –...
View ArticlePerforming Thought 2.0 – Notes
Some introductory notes to a poetry project that I have been working on with Azad Ashim Sharma and Kashif Sharma-Patel. (March 2020): A movement in our collective thinking – our...
View ArticleThe return of the blog
In a time of physical isolation, and the demand to do things online with real-time social media and instantaneous digital communication tools, the blog perhaps returns for ‘slow’ thought – a sociality...
View ArticleFor Couze: on Occidentalism: modernity and subjectivity
A short contribution I made at my dear friend and colleague Couze Venn’s memorial event. Couze was a lovely, generous and ethical thinker. The sort of nuanced thinking we need in our present time. RIP...
View ArticleOn the Return to a Foreign Land
A poem I wrote on taking my mum’s ashes to India. On the 87 Press blog – The Hythe. https://www.the87press.com/post/on-the-return-to-a-foreign-land-by-ashwani-sharma
View ArticlePreaching Thought
Note to self: I try very hard these days not to get into adversarial exchanges, especially on social media. They normally don’t end well. I lapsed and stupidly got into a minor one yesterday. For some...
View ArticleForget Decolonising the University, Abolish It!
This is a ‘lightening talk’ (5mins) I gave at the UAL Educational Conference 2020 https://teachingexchange.arts.ac.uk/conference/2022/ I have no powerpoint – the first thing we should abolish! Lets...
View Article
