Lezing, Filmvertoning

21-22 mei 2015

Anthropocene/Capitalocene

Wat betekent het voor ons ethisch vermogen en politiek bewustzijn dat we in het tijdperk van het antropoceen een gevoel hebben van collectieve verantwoordelijkheid voor het milieu?

Op 22 mei vertoont Keti Chukhrov haar film Love Machines:

“Love Machines questions the dismissal of anthropocentrism, folk, and identity politics of today’s shift to a post-humanist philosophy. The film brings forth the confrontation between the animal, human, and over-human (bio-techno-intelligence) forces that clash in the search for collective sensitivity and discourses of emancipation. On the one hand the outdated modes of human existence fall into the trap of essentialist values, on the other hand the accelerationist ethics cast the majority of people as retarding the technological upgrading of the “human.” Is then, the human an “anthropos” at all, a species with thinking capacities, whose evolutional domination is gradually expiring, or is it an ethical condition that has been a project since numerous revolutions but has never reached its goal? If it is an extinguished realia then the main question is surely the following: What is the subjectivity that would at the same time strive for bio-elemental disjunction and bio-technological hybridity and claim the political event; and is it possible to sustain such a program at all? Who will be those whose cognitive and ethical expectations still cling to the notion of “human”—are they excluded or considered to be a backward surplus population? And would not the dogmatism of the post-humanist condition occur to be as despotic as the “humanist” once had been?”

Met bijdragen van: Keti Chukhrov (dichter, kunsttheoreticus en filosoof, universitair docent aan de Russische Staatsuniversiteit voor de Geesteswetenschappen en gastdocent aan de Europese Universiteit van Sint Petersburg, hoofd van het Departement Theorie van het National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moskou), Katerina Kolozova (hoogleraar filosofie, Gender Studies en sociologische theorie aan het University American College–Skopje en directeur en hoofdonderzoeker aan het Instituut voor Sociale Wetenschappen en Geesteswetenschappen, Skopje), Jussi Parikka (mediatheoreticus, schrijver en hoogleraar technologische cultuur en esthetica aan de Winchester School of Art, Universiteit van Southampton, Southampton), Iris van der Tuin (universitair hoofddocent Liberal Arts and Sciences aan de Universiteit Utrecht) en Timotheus Vermeulen (universitair docent Algemene Cultuurwetenschappen en hoofd van het Centre for New Aesthetics, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen).

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