About
Prof. T. J. Demos is a faculty member at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture. In 2017, he served as a guest lecturer for the MA Art History in a Global Context program—a joint initiative between the University of Zurich and Zurich University of the Arts—where he taught the seminar Against the Anthropocene: Conflicts in Visual Culture and Environment Today.
His research critically engages with the Anthropocene concept, rejecting its anthropocentric framework. Demos investigates radical alternatives including multispecies relationships, experimental pedagogies, eco-sexual economies, and institutional liberation. His work aims to envision sustainable futures beyond technoscientific rationality and climate catastrophe paradigms.
Demos presented these themes in a March 2017 public lecture at ZHdK Campus Toni-Areal, organized collaboratively by Zurich academic institutions and moderated by interdisciplinary scholars including Rory Rowan (Political Geography) and Emily Scott (Architectural History).
