Sovereignty in the Anthropocene with Daniel Matthews

Tuesday 7 September 2021

This event was part of the IILAH Festival of Conversations: Ideas and Performances.

Dr Kathleen Birrell and Tim Lindgren were joined in conversation with Dr Daniel Matthews (University of Warwick) to discuss his new book Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty . The conversation  traversed the aesthetic force of sovereignty as a framing device of modern legal and political forms and the possibility of an alternative political aesthetics for the Anthropocene.

A podcast of this conversation can be listened to here.