In this lecture, Macarena Gómez-Barris attends to forms of social ecological life that are disappearing and under attack in the ongoing war against the Earth through racial and extractive capitalism. Through encounters that emphasize the critical labor of reconversions, intimate multi-species relations, Indigenous/Black arts of land and water defense, and feminist, queer and trans global south cultural production, in this lecture Macarena considers the complex distribution of "edging closer."

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Macarena Gómez-Barris is a scholar and writer who works at the intersections of art, environment, feminist-cuir politics, decolonial theory and praxis. She is the author of four books, Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (2009), The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (2017), Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Américas (2018), and Towards a Sociology of a Trace (2010, with Herman Gray). She is completing two new books on the colonial Anthropocene, At the Sea’s Edge: Liquidity Beyond Colonial Extinction (Forthcoming Duke University Press 2022), and Latchkey, a work of fiction set in the 1980s in the Sierra Nevada Maidu Foothills of Northern California. She is Founding Director of the Global South Center and Chairperson of Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.