Denise Ferreira da Silva is a Brazilian philosopher, ethicist and artist, tarot reader, reiki master, student of unreasonable knowledges, and Gemini. Her book Toward a Global Idea of Race asks “why, after more than five hundred years of violence perpetrated by Europeans against people of colour, is there no ethical outrage?“, and presents a critique of modern thought that shows how racial knowledge and power produce global space.

Denise contributed to Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way and participated in the programme for Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives with Valentina Desideri.

Study Session General Info

Study Sessions are informal, slightly more intimate spaces and a chance to geek out. Some might be presentations, some might be workshops; each will open out the ideas and themes in the Episode, led by people who’ve been considering them for ages. This one is about the interconnectedness of blackness as a mode of life, a revolution in ethics, virtuality and nonlocality in particle physics and what that means for practicing a difference without separability.

Image Description: A mesmerising shot of light reflecting, golden, off many hundreds of thin wires that recede away creating gold lines that describe the perspective of the space. It looks a little like the inside of a piano. Orange light streams through the wires. The view shows us the inside of an instrument which was used to detect the W Boson at CERN.