Communication 797E - ST- Performing Survival

This seminar centers survival as a phenomenon that is structural and embodied, strategic and always in process. Survival will be a point of entry rather than a point of departure. We will encounter survival not as something to be solved or resolved, but rather as a way to understand the conditions that produce survival and how it is lived. Survival will be approached as a site of knowledge creation, of and as creativity, of and as communication, and of and as relation. We will approach survival from critical and embodied theories, drawing primarily from performance, narrative, queer and feminist of color, postcolonial and settler colonialism. Alongside theories of survival, we will read narrative and other texts that address, imagine, cultivate, and live the politics, poetics, and affects of survival.

Open to Doctoral Communication students only. Or permission of instructor.