{"id":398,"date":"2025-08-25T11:23:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/futures-of-memory\/?p=398"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:57:26","slug":"upcoming-cmsi-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/futures-of-memory\/upcoming-cmsi-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming CMSI Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Professor Russell Kilbourn is set to speak at the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative on Tuesday October 28th at the University of Ghent, Belgium with a lecture titled \u201cImmanent Frames: Non-Human and Posthuman(ist) Memory in Postsecular Narrative Cinema.\u201d For more information about the event, please see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This talk compares a set of films in which the human subject is de-privileged or -centred, despite narrative cinema\u2019s historical dependence on the human face, body, and voice. Another way of talking about the postsecular era, Charles Taylor\u2019s concept of the \u2018immanent frame\u2019\u2014\u201cthe disenchanted worldview of the secular age\u201d (Caruana and Cauchi 2018)\u2014also references the literal frame that determines the filmic image, imposing formal, semantic, and ontological limits on the onscreen world, reinforcing the properly immanent status of film form, denying in its very materiality the possibility of transcendence. Reflexive and self-critical, the postsecular represents an \u201cincredulity toward the secularist narrative\u201d supposedly constitutive of western modernity in which the question of belief or faith has never gone away (Caruana and Cauchi 4). The postsecular frames the privileging of immanence over transcendence fundamental to many posthumanist critiques of the Humanist tradition. This talk puts the postsecular into conversation with the posthumanist critique of the Humanist philosophical legacy as it manifests in select films that explore the convergence of memory and the question of the human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transhumanist deference to a technologically augmented or artificial memory must be measured against the idea of an always already technically supported \u2018natural\u2019 memory. Arguably, memory has always been posthuman because it has always had a technological or prosthetic dimension. The distinction is between a posthuman memory symptomatic of the transformation of the human subject\u2019s cognitive and emotional relation to time, and a posthuman-ist<\/em> memory that comes after<\/em> the human: after the time of the human, when \u2018we\u2019 are no longer here. \u2018Posthuman memory\u2019 is still human memory, whereas \u2018posthumanist memory\u2019 is memory no longer understood in (purely) humanist terms, as something belonging wholly to \u2018man\u2019. To take account of the future of memory in a posthumanist context is to acknowledge that there is another kind of memory that demands to be thought in a post-anthropomorphic context, challenging us to conceive of a nonhuman, radically other, agent of memory\/remembering. The most urgent question is: Who\/what does the remembering, in the time of the posthuman?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Russell Kilbourn is set to speak at the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative on Tuesday October 28th at the University of Ghent, Belgium with a lecture titled \u201cImmanent Frames: Non-Human and Posthuman(ist) Memory in Postsecular Narrative Cinema.\u201d For more information about the event, please see here. Abstract This talk compares a set of films in … <\/p>\n

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