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Fractal Thinking, a conversation between Denise Ferreira da Silva and Susanne Winterling As part of her ongoing conversational project, Pandora Box artist Susanne Winterling will be joined by professor Desire Ferreira da Silva to talk about poethical ethics, the practice of the ‘what If’, and fractal thinking. Ferreira da Silva proposes that we understand fractal thinking as a way of welcoming the complexity and complication resulting from an engagement with existents and events that, refusing the empire of time, attends simultaneously to the infra (quantic) and supra (cosmic) dimensions of existence. Ferreira da Silva situates this proposal within her larger offering to the unthinking of the world, black feminist poetics, which she draws from the work of black feminist and other radical interventions. As a poethical tool, fractal thinking rehearses the kind of compositional thinking that she hopes can break through the formalisations of the kind of thinking that relies only on the Understanding’s capacity to related to the world as an object. Initiated by artist Susanne Winterling, Pandora Box is “a collective artefact which started with a group of artists, poets and cultural producers, as they began talking to each other from different angles and unusual positions.” Using the format of the conversation, Pandora Box explores the possibilities of forming alliances and creating networks of solidarity to think the world anew. The series of conversations that compose Pandora Box are available online at http://pandorasbox.susannewinterling.com. Pandora Box will soon become a book published by Archive Books. The event is hosted by Federica Bueti, Chiara Figone and Susanne Winterling.