Jonathon Keats & Robert Folger

In the organizer's words:

Post-Apocalyptic Futures: Imagining Life After The Polycrisis

In dialog

Our civilization is facing unprecedented challenges - climate crisis, social inequality, technological disruption and political instability are condensing into a polycrisis of existential significance. How can we overcome this multi-layered threat? This conversation between Jonathon Keats and Robert Folger explores apocalyptic studies as a key to understanding the present and relies on visionary art to chart desirable paths for the future.

Jonathon Keats is an artist, author and experimental philosopher. His conceptually oriented transdisciplinary projects explore all aspects of society, adapting methods from the natural sciences and humanities. He has exhibited and lectured worldwide, from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to Stanford University to the Triennale di Milano and from SXSW to CERN to UNESCO. He is the author of six books, including You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future (Oxford University Press).

Robert Folger, professor at the University of Heidelberg and researcher at the Käte Hamburger Center for Apocalyptic and Postapocalyptic Studies, examines cultural narratives of doom and their significance for our current understanding of crisis. His interdisciplinary research sheds light on how societies have historically dealt with existential threats and what lessons we can learn from this for current challenges.

Language: English

In cooperation with the Käte Hamburger Center for Apocalyptic and Postapocalyptic Studies at Heidelberg University

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