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Reading Group:
“What’s the Use?” by Sara Ahmed

Facilitator: Karin Dahl

Date: Thursday Night Series:
9/5, 9/26, 10/17, 11/14

Time: 6:30 - 8:30p

Location: Bathers Library

Description:
This fall we’ll be getting together to read and discuss Sara Ahmed’s book “What’s the Use?: On the Uses of Use” We’re interested in what Ahmed teases out of the word “use” in relation to art and craft practices both within and outside of institutional spaces.

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What to read in advance of each meeting:

September 5:
Introduction: The Useful Archive + Chapter One: Using Things (~60 pgs)

September 26:
Chapter Two: The Biology of Use and Disuse (~ 33 pgs)

October 17:
Chapter Three: Use as Techniques (~ 35 pgs)

November 14:
Chapter Four: Use and the University + Conclusion: Queer Use (~ 70 pgs)