Dienstag, 13.01.2026
Ringvorlesung - Utopian poethics: feminist enunciative practices toward the collapse of modernity
18:00 - 19:30 Uhr
Hörsaal 5, Innrain 52e, 6020 Innsbruck
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Vortragende/r
Paula Maio de Siqueira, MA MSc
Paula Maio de Siqueira, MA MSc (ela/she/they), is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and PhD candidate in Gender Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Innsbruck (Faculty of Philosophy and History). Their research explores how global health systems reproduce racial and gender violence under the guise of inclusion. Thinking with Black and anti-colonial feminist perspective, Paula develops feminist poethical practices that challenge modern structures of classification.
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What if feminist utopia is not a dream we project into the future but an unmaking of the world’s logic in the now? In the face of global militarization, anti-gender, and anti-migration politics, where demands for order, legibility and purity reveal their colonial bases, I propose feminist utopia not as a distant horizon but as a gesture enacted through enunciation in the present. Based on my dissertation on feminist enunciative practices, in this lecture, I think with Denise Ferreira da Silva’s poethical method, which renders the political, poetic, and ethical perspectives inseparable from enacting the exhaustion of two modern descriptors: transparency and determinacy (as seen in colonial gender categorizations in the International Classification of Diseases, ICD). I also mobilize Blackness and Transness not as identities but as imagetic forces that generatively collapse the modern’s wording. Utopian anti-colonial feminisms turn the need for violence obsolete, undoing the terms that try to fix racialized and gender-nonconforming existences under the guise of care. By refusing liberal inclusion’s fiction of universal justice and fascist violence as an isolated grammar, I invite us to engage in enunciative practice by imaging and unmaking the world’s war means.
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