<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div class=""><p style="text-align:start" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt" class=""><span style="font-style:normal" class=""><span style="font-weight:400" class=""><span style="white-space:normal" class=""><span style="text-decoration:none" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="" class=""><b class="">WiSER invites you to the <span style="color:#00b050" class="">fourth</span> and final lecture of our PUBLIC POSITIONS SERIES on</b><br class="">
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<b class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""><span style="color:#0d7dca" class="">STS, Political Order and Maintaining Planetary Life</span></span></b><br class="">
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<b class=""><span style="font-size:16pt" class=""><span style="color:#c00000" class="">Abou Farman</span></span></b> <i class="">(The New School for Social Research)</i><br class="">
<b class=""><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:13pt" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="color:#00b050" class="">Future Inevitable - The Secular Tense of Technoscience at the End of the World</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: start;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align:justify" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt" class=""><span style="font-style:normal" class=""><span style="font-weight:400" class=""><span style="white-space:normal" class=""><span style="text-decoration:none" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="" class=""><span lang="EN-ZA" style="font-size:12pt" class="">Technoscience with promises of immortality and space colonies, continues unfettered on its path of technological expansion, projecting and developing inevitable posthuman possibilities. At the same time, scientists are projecting an unavoidable future of devastating climate change, and social and ecological collapse. On both sides, the sense of inevitability is changing the open and free future promised by modernity and secular humanism.
This talk will explore the scenes and grammars of inevitability, and their effect on contemporary political ideologies. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align:start" class=""><br class="">
<span style="font-size:11pt" class=""><span style="font-style:normal" class=""><span style="font-weight:400" class=""><span style="white-space:normal" class=""><span style="text-decoration:none" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="" class=""><b class=""><u class=""><span style="font-size:12pt" class="">Respondent</span></u></b><b class=""><span style="font-size:12pt" class="">:</span></b> <b class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""><span style="color:#0070c0" class="">Mamadou Diallo </span></span></b><i class="">(Doctoral student in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, New York)</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: start;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align:start" class=""><span style="font-size:11pt" class=""><span style="font-style:normal" class=""><span style="font-weight:400" class=""><span style="white-space:normal" class=""><span style="text-decoration:none" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""><span style="color:#c00000" class="">1<sup class="">st</sup> June 2022</span></span></b><br class="">
<b class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""><span style="color:#720ea8" class="">16.00 - 17:30 (SA time)</span></span></b><br class="">
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<b class=""><i class=""><span style="color:#00b050" class="">Please register for this Zoom event in advance of the meeting</span></i></b><br class="">
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