BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8630@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:Launch: Errant Journal #8\, Against Visibility (or\, the Right to O pacity) DTSTAMP:20260911T193754Z DTSTART:20250907T140000Z DTEND:20250907T160000Z DESCRIPTION:Framer Framed and Errant Journal are happy to invite you to the launch of\nErrant’s eighth issue titled Against Visibility (or\, the Righ t to Opacity).\nDuring the launch\, writer Nadine Monem discusses her cont ribution ‘Om Kolsoum’s\nSunglasses (on Redaction\, the Hijab\, and the Imp erial Idea)’. Editor-in-chief\nIrene de Craen introduces the issue as a wh ole and the programme ends with a\nconversation between Nadine and Irene\, welcoming questions and comments from the\naudience.\n\nThe eighth issue of Errant Journal questions the ways in which hegemonic culture\nand disco urse tends to prioritise the ideal of openness\, access\, transparency\nan d visibility. Delving into topics such as face coverings\, ‘coming out’ in \nqueer discourses\, the use of opacity in transformative justice and diff erent\nstrategies of (visual) resistance\, Against Visibility can be read as a\nproposition of refusal of the paradigm of visibility and access that permeates\nall areas of western thinking. At a moment in which representa tion and\nuncovering ‘lost’ histories are trending\, Errant asks what is b eing erased in a\nworld where everything must always be visible. When Édou ard Glissant proclaimed\nthe right to opacity\, he sought not to be reduce d or to be measured against an\nideal scale in order to be understood and accepted. Expanding from this\, Against\nVisibility looks into the ways in which unlearning imperialism also includes\nunlearning the ideal of visib ility itself.\n\nNadine Monem [https://framerframed.nl/en/mensen/nadine-mo nem/] is an\nEgyptian-Canadian writer working in hybrid autotextual modes and anti-colonial\npoetics. Her work has been published or supported by Ti n House Books\, Catapult\nBooks\, The Sewanee Review\, The Kenyon Review\, Gulf Coast Journal\, The Seventh\nWave\, and The Literary Consultancy.\n\ nContributors\nVivi Alfonsín\, Leila Ben Abdallah\, Mariam Ben Slama\, Mic hèle Boulogne\n[https://framerframed.nl/mensen/michele-boulogne/]\, Irene de Craen\n[https://framerframed.nl/mensen/irene-de-craen/]\, AmaraChíkà Em ele-Ralph\, Cosmo\nM. Esposito\, Jamie McGhee\, Ludovica Micalizzi\, Nadin e Monem\, Pieter Paul\nPothoven\, [https://framerframed.nl/mensen/pieter-p aul-pothoven/] Musa Shadeedi &\nFederica Stagni.\n\nCredits\n\nErrant Jour nal is a cultural/political publication loosely inspired by Édouard\nGliss ant ́s notion of the Poetics of Relation in which he opposes ideas of\ncen ters\, linearity\, roots and dichotomy. Errant\, meaning both ‘deviating f rom an\naccepted norm’ and ‘wandering’\, represents a way of breaking free from the idea\nof identity based on origin and the possibility to possess a totality of\nknowledge. It is never the goal to know everything\, to se e and understand\nsomething in its entirety. Instead\, a person who is ‘er rant’ rejects the\nuniversal and challenges the idea that the world is tra nsparent and explainable.\n\nFramed Framed is founding partner of Errant J ournal\, a concept of Irene de Craen\n[https://framerframed.nl/mensen/iren e-de-craen/]. URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/launch-errant-journal-8-against-visibil ity-or-the-right-to-opacity GEO:52.3568405;4.9323245 LOCATION:Framer Framed - Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71\, 1093KS Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-oost,books,dapperbuurt,queer X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Framer Framed and Errant Journal are happy to invite you to the launch of Errant’s eighth issue titled Agai nst Visibility (or, the Right to Opacity). During the launch, writer Nadine Monem discusses her contribution ‘Om Kolsoum’s Sun glasses (on Redaction, the Hijab, and the Imperial Idea)’. Editor-in-chief Irene de Craen introduces the issue as a whole and the p rogramme ends with a conversation between Nadine and Irene, welcoming ques tions and comments from the audience.

The eighth issue of Errant Jou rnal questions the ways in which hegemonic culture and discourse tend s to prioritise the ideal of openness, access, transparency and visibility . Delving into topics such as face coverings, ‘coming out’ in queer discou rses, the use of opacity in transformative justice and different strategie s of (visual) resistance, Against Visibility can be read as a pro position of refusal of the paradigm of visibility and access that permeate s all areas of western thinking. At a moment in which representation and u ncovering ‘lost’ histories are trending, Errant asks what is being erased in a world where everything must always be visible. When Édouard Glissant proclaimed the right to opacity, he sought not to be reduced or to be meas ured against an ideal scale in order to be understood and accepted. Expand ing from this, Against Visibility looks into the ways in which un learning imperialism also includes unlearning the ideal of visibility itse lf.

Nadine Monem is an Egyptian-Canadian writer working in hybri d autotextual modes and anti-colonial poetics. Her work has been published or supported by Tin House Books, Catapult Books, The Sewanee Review, The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast Journal, The Seventh Wave, and The Literary Cons ultancy.

Contributors
Vivi Alfonsín, Leila Ben Abdallah, Mariam Ben Slama, Michèle Boulogne, Irene de Craen, Amar aChíkà Emele-Ralph, Cosmo M. Esposito, Jamie McGhee, Ludovica Micalizzi, N adine Monem, Pieter Paul Pothoven, Musa Shadeedi & Federica S tagni.

Credits

Errant Journal is a cultural/political public ation loosely inspired by Édouard Glissant ́s notion of the Poetics of Rel ation in which he opposes ideas of centers, linearity, roots and dichotomy . Errant, meaning both ‘deviating from an accepted norm’ and ‘wandering’, represents a way of breaking free from the idea of identity based on origi n and the possibility to possess a totality of knowledge. It is never the goal to know everything, to see and understand something in its entirety. Instead, a person who is ‘errant’ rejects the universal and challenges the idea that the world is transparent and explainable.

Framed Framed i s founding partner of Errant Journal, a concept of Irene de Craen< /a>.

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