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Join Professor Lynne Huffer, philosopher, writer, and artist, for a workshop that brings together experimental writing with visual collage. Lynne will share some of her creative practices with the aim to inspire workshop participants to develop her own approach to what she calls thought collage: using writing exercises and analog collage as a way to stimulate new forms of expression and thinking. Lynne Huffer is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. Philosopher, writer, teacher, and collage artist interested in formal experimentation, her creative efforts are driven by a desire to think-feel the world differently than before, and to open up new spaces for intimacy, friendship, and political solidarities. Lynne Huffer calls this mode of thinking-feeling and art-making “thought collage”. In drawing on the aesthetic of fragmentation, her work pushes the limits of our perception and our thinking. In These Survivals: Autobiography of Extinction (Duke University Press, 2025), a hybrid, collage-style work in fragments that combines text with images, Lynne Huffer brings together philosophy, memoir, poetry, and original multimedia artworks to articulate an ethics of living on a devastated planet.

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