On the Brink: Thinking Art, Puerto Rico, and Climate Change with Amber Musser

This event is part of Humanities Connect 2024-25: Decolonial Feminist Resistance and Climate Justice for Puerto Rico.

This year’s academic Humanities Center theme, “How (and why) do we represent nature?” explores how ecology, politics, and humanistic practices might be braided together, analyzing how we arrived at a moment of climate crisis, as well as dreaming toward potential futures of planetary thriving. 

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Amber Jamilla Musser is Professor of English and Africana Studies at the CUNY Graduate School. She is the author of three books: Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism, Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance, and, most recently, Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined. She writes art criticism for The Brooklyn Rail and is the current co-president of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP).