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Things that come and go: ephemera and atmospherics in wartime

How fugitive forces suffused and oriented the actions and experiences of wartime?

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Dec 05 2024

15:30 - 17:00 CET

Sala Belvedere, Villa Schifanoia

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Join this seminar to discover how ephemeral wartime elements, such as street art and atmospheric conditions, leave lasting impacts on social formations during wartime.
This presentation explores how fugitive forces—specifically, large Christian billboards and murals that arose during the Muslim-Christian conflict in the early 2000s in the eastern Indonesian city of Ambon—suffused and oriented the actions and experiences of wartime. The speaker argues that elusive, ephemeral aspects of social life—from such street art to invisible yet palpable atmospherics, like Carl von Clausewitz’s renowned fog of war —deserve acute attention. Even as they come and go, such phenomena can have a lasting impact. By depositing their traces in an assortment of practices and forms, they bring about novel formations of sociality and sensibility, alter landscapes of living and cohabitation, and subtly change ways of seeing, dwelling, and engaging with the world.

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