Haunting Material Matters | Kim Darbouze

This talk is extracted from my recently published chapter. Which focuses on colonialism's continue neo persistence in nuances forms of reiterations. By weaving the material, ecological, and embodied ties that continue to extract and promote justified killability for capital commodity, I invite us to reconsider colonialism persistence in the present.

I will share stories of the material relations of extraction, the ecological ones, some poetry, and what monsters mean today. Perhaps the monster is really within us, through this colonial human design? Lastly, speaking about monsters cannot go without addressing the haunting conditions of colonialism. Horror is a brilliant genre. It portrays a lot more than the superficial western fear factor that many associate horror. I use it to show the unspoken and embodied ways in which colonialism, trauma, memory, and the unresolved orbit through past, present, and future. Horror is clever and woven in knowledge. As Kendrick Lamar says in the song 'tv off', this talk will be crazy, scary, spooky, hilarious'. This will also be an invitation to turn the TV off, yes that includes streaming and tune into layered hour of knowledge, memory, and joy all at once.