ECSTATIC WRITING: A SYMPOSIUM (free, Chicago)

CHICAGO FOLKS! I am in town to talk about DAYSPRING! Join us next week for ECSTATIC WRITING: A SYMPOSIUM with University of Chicago Comparative Literature - this is a FREE event! (Wednesday May 7th during the day).

This symposium explores the relationship between the practice of writing and forms of ecstasy, bliss, joy, jouissance. Focusing on feminist and queer literature and theory, a series of dialogues between writers and critics will ask how literature can move beyond a representational relationship to ecstasy. How might practices of reading and writing occasion an erotics that is coextensive with sexual intimacy? How, in turn, might the embodied quality of sexual practice bring into focus the embodied aspects of producing literature? How might framing both sex and literature as ecstatic practices shift attention to the ways in which both make and unmake subjects? And how do other forms, traditions, and histories of ecstatic practice—spiritual, religious, artistic, psychedelic—relate to the ecstasy of literature and sex?

My talk is in the late morning, right before lunch! Hope you'll all come out and say hi!!!