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Rachel Loewen-Walker will be presenting this talk in the Philosophy in the Community series.

For the Love of Time: Co-creating time through Philosophy, Literature, and Life

A Philosophy in the Community event with women's and gender studies professor Rachel Loewen-Walker

Event

Date: Friday, Feb. 14
Time: 7 pm
Location: The Refinery
Emmanuel Anglican (formerly St. James) Church Basement
607 Dufferin Ave

Free and open to the public

About this event

Jeanette Winterson’s novels often feature time-travelling lovers who building worlds and timelines as they go. This talk explores Winterson’s The Stone Gods through the lens of Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the Living Present. Defined as the present of retention and expectation, the living present is never a static ‘now’, but a dynamic interplay between past and future, contracting all past experiences while anticipating those yet to come. By examining the non-linear, open-ended timeline of the living present, as depicted in The Stone Gods and within our contemporary socio-cultural context, I will uncover new possibilities for life, love, and community. This approach opens up new ways to engage with both documented and assumed histories, and with anticipated and imagined futures.


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