The Conspiracy of NDN Joy with Billy-Ray Belcourt
Event Ended- Where
- Lincoln Park Room, J301, Mount Royal University - 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW, Calgary, AB View Map
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- Website
- http://mru.ca/BillyRayBelcourt
In “The Conspiracy of NDN Joy,” Billy-Ray Belcourt examines a diverse range of texts — literary, filmic, archival and artistic — to show that wherever NDNs are, so too is the feeling of utopia. He writes in the modes of poetry, autotheory, and the speculative to argue that indigeneity potentiates in excess of the racialized embargo on care that is Canada. Modernity is something like a terrain of bad feeling and the reserve is one of its outposts, but, Belcourt explains, it also flowers an affect world in which we can open up to the conspiracy that is our joy. Keynote followed by book signing.