Samstag, 9. März 2024

The CARS WE LIKE - some impressions from the workshop


Since it was such a blast, I want to already share with you some images of the first two days (!) of the five-day workshop of the Futurama.Lab by Rainer Prohaska and myself of last week. They form a really nice photo-story and can spark your imagination of how far we actually got on day 5, of which I am still waiting for the photos. Enjoy & see you on the streets soon!

 Photos by Rainer Prohaska. More info on the workshop see here.

Donnerstag, 7. März 2024

"An Ecology of Morals" - Salon Futur #2 with Alexis Shotwell - 19.3 18:30

The March-edition of the now monthly "Salon Futur" by the Futurama.Lab will host a special treat: Alexis Shotwell and me will be presenting our emerging collaborative research entitled "An Ecology of Morals". The presentation will take place on the 19th of March, 18:30-20:30 at the Bildraum Studio of Ankerbrotfabrik, Absberggasse 27, 1100 Vienna. Find more information below and I am really looking forward to see you there!


"SALON FUTUR"

Das FUTURAMA LAB 
lädt herzlichst in den "SALON FUTUR" zum Thema
"An Ecology of Morals"


GAST: Alexis Shotwell 
HOST: Kilian Jörg & Sabrina Rosina
LOCATION: Bildraum Studio, Ankerbrotfabrik, Absberggasse 27, 1100 Wien 
DATE: Tuesday, 19th of March, 18:30-20:30

This edition of "SALON FUTUR" invites you to explore the tricky moral conundrum that environmental acting and thinking is encompassed with. Why, in a time were everybody feels the need to change, do we have such a hard time to ethically demand that change? Do we fear to be „moralizing“ more than to be continuing the ecocidal status quo?

Our invited guest will be the Canadian philosopher and sociologist Alexis Shotwell who will present their current collaborative book-project with Salon Futur-host Kilian Jörg. „An Ecology of Morals“ tries to stir clear of predominant fears of individualizing, woke-ness and cancel culture by regarding morals as a ecological practice. We seek to undo the little reflected dualism between “ethics” and “morals” by understanding morality as a oikos-based practice that should much rather be regarded as a collective environmental politics than an individualized obligation.

Since this collaborative research is at an early stage, Alexis and Kilian will be particularly curious to hear your stories on the matter. What are your experiences with addressing issues that everybody seems to agree on, but still nobody acts on? Do you sometimes avoid questioning your friends and colleagues for what you regard to be ecocidal behavior in spite of your desire to do so? We are particularly interested in your stories and would love to discuss them within the theoretical framework we will present in this Salon Futur. See you there, your FUTURAMA LAB-team

LINKS:
http://futurama-lab.org/salon.html
https://www.bildrecht.at/bildraum/bildraum-studio/rainer-prohaska-esistenza-integrale/

https://maps.app.goo.gl/rAC17m8co1giGYMq6

ABOUT: In the format "SALON FUTUR" experts are invited every month to enter into an open and transdisciplinary dialogue with FUTURAMA LAB participants and guests on a key topic. The "SALON FUTUR" is a format of the "FUTURAMA DAYS".

The FUTURAMA LAB and the "FUTURAMA DAYS 2024" event series are kindly supported by

Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport . BMKOES
Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien . MA 7
YPSOMED AG 
BILDRAUM STUDIO, BILDRECHT GmbH

Donnerstag, 15. Februar 2024

Interview on the CARS WE LIKE & Full Programm online

I gave an interview about the CARS WE LIKE for the online presence of AIL. In it I talk about the project with the Futurama.Lab as well es about some thesis of my upcoming book on the topic. 

You can read it here in English, and here in German.


Furthermore, the detailed program of the symposium is now also online here.


Dienstag, 13. Februar 2024

Salon Futur - "Zukunft der Nacht" - 16.2.2024, 17-18:30

Als Teil des weiterhin wachsenden Futurama.Labs werden wir ab diesem Monat einen Salon zu einschlägigen Themen halten. Diesen Freitag geht es los mit der "Zukunft der Nacht". Mehr Info unten und ich freue mich auf Euer kommen! 

"SALON FUTUR"


Das FUTURAMA LAB 
lädt herzlichst in den "SALON FUTUR" zum Thema
"Zukunft der Nacht"

GAST: Dr. Günther Wuchterl HOST: Sabrina Rosina & Kilian Jörg
LOCATION: Bildraum Studio, Ankerbrotfabrik, Absberggasse 27, 1100 Wien
TERMIN: Freitag, 16. Februar, 17:00-18:30

Diese Ausgabe des "SALON FUTUR" widmet sich dem Thema der Nacht, der An- bzw. Abwesenheit von Licht und was das für menschliche und nicht-menschliche Akteur*Innen bedeuten kann. 

Als Experte eingeladen ist Dr. Günther Wuchterl, dessen Hauptarbeitsgebiet die Fluiddynamik der Stern- und Planetenentstehung ist. Er studierte technische Physik und technische Mathematik an der TU Wien sowie Astronomie, Philosophie und Zoologie an der Universität Wien. Außerdem ist er Vorsitzender der Österreich-Sektion der International "Dark Sky Association" zum Schutz der nächtlichen Umwelt. Dr. Günther Wuchterl wird gemeinsam mit der Ökologin und Künstlerin Sabrina Rosina in die Untiefen der sogenannten Lichtverschmutzung abtauchen. Künstler*in und Philosoph*in Kilian Jörg bedient sich extra einer schwachen Beleuchtung, um beim sichtbar Machen von sozialwissenschaftlichen Seiten der Rückzugsorte der Nacht niemanden zu verschrecken. Also, Kerzen und Taschenlampen einpacken, und macht es Euch gemütlich im "SALON FUTUR" zum Thema "Zukunft der Nacht".



Bis bald, Euer Team des FUTURAMA LAB




LINKS: 

http://futurama-lab.org/salon.html 
https://www.bildrecht.at/bildraum/bildraum-studio/rainer-prohaska-esistenza-integrale/
https://maps.app.goo.gl/rAC17m8co1giGYMq6
 

ABOUT: In dem Diskursformat "SALON FUTUR" werden monatlich Expert*Innen geladen um mit Akteur*innen des FUTURAMA LAB zu einem Schwerpunktthema in den offenen und transdisziplinären Dialog zu treten. Der "SALON FUTUR" ist ein Format der "FUTURAMA DAYS".  

Das FUTURAMA LAB und die Veranstaltungsserie "FUTURAMA DAYS 2024" wird freundlicherweise unterstützt von: Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport . BMKOES Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien . MA 7 YPSOMED AG BILDRAUM STUDIO, BILDRECHT GmbH

Donnerstag, 25. Januar 2024

The (fascist) locking-in of European Car Cultures - talk at KAOS Berlin available via podcast and radio (in German)

Hätte sich das Auto ohne Faschismus jemals so dominant in Europa durchsetzen können? Wann wurde es normal, den öffentlichen urbanen Raum als von täglicher Todesgefahr geprägt zu verstehen? Warum fuhr Kaiser Wilhelm schon 1906 ein Elektro-Auto?
Das Zentrum Für Demokratie Treptow-Köpenick und KAOS Berlin hat einen Podcast von meinem Talk letzten November hochgeladen, in dem ich einige Punkte der gewaltvollen Anfangsgeschichte des Autos erzähle. 

My talk about the (fascist) history of the locking-in of car cultures from November during the panel "Ist eine autofreie Stadt möglich oder eine Spinnerei?" at KAOS Berlin has been aired on the radio and is also available as a podcast of the Zentrum für Demokratie here (in German).

Some Images I used in the presentation (that isn't available in the podcast)

Kaiser Wilhelm in an electric car in fron of Berlin's Marienkirche in 1906
Kaiser Wilhelm in an electric car in front of Berlin's Marienkirche in 1906

The ideal of German Nature & it's fascist taming by means of the Autobahnen


The French railway-system in the 1930ies and today

Montag, 22. Januar 2024

"The entanglement of ‘wilderness’ and car infrastructure on the Pasterze glacier" @ This Is Not A Glacier, AIL 26.1.2024

Friday next week I will be speaking about a research I have started together with Guus Diepenmaat, Victor Kössl and Sandra Sieczkowski this year (a short-film is in the making about this. The title of my presentation will be "The entanglement of ‘wilderness’ and car infrastructure on the Pasterze glacier" and will be part of a Panel with the wonderful title "Guilt-tripping on the loss of Wilderness". Below you can find the abstract of both my talk and the symposium in general as well as all the necessary info. 

National Parks as zones for consuming Nature? The entanglement of the car with our love for the high peaks examined through the lens of the Glocknerhochalpenstraße

The Glocknerhochalpenstraße is Austria’s perhaps most famous street, leading directly to the countries biggest glacier, the Pasterze. Right next to its melting glory, you can find a 5-story parking house and an exhibition of racing cars. If you drive a bit further up the road that leads through the core protection area of Central Europe’s biggest National Park, you can drink an overpriced coffee at the Porsche Café and chat with car enthusiasts of all countries, who came here for a day ride to enjoy nature. The tarmac of the entire street is full of tyre tracks from the frequent drift races.

 In this input presentation of an ongoing research, I want to look behind the apparent contradictions of such Nature Protection zones to look for their hidden entanglements. Rather then regarding the car as “bad for Nature”, I regard it as a machine that produces Nature for us as something to be consumed. By examining the history of the development of National Parks, their expropriation of indigenous tribes and their agenda of “protection of Nature”, I want to raise questions for an environmentalism of the future and a re-diversification of what it means to be human. The challenge for National Parks of the catastrophic future might turn out to again disentangle humans from their self-identification with cars.

This Is Not a Glacier

Thickening Description for Thinning Ice 

26 Jan 2024, 15:00 

Glaciers are often portrayed as icons of global warming because of their physical loss through melting and the loss of climate records stored in glacial ice. This is an attempt at a more multifaceted, heterogenous and thicker description of a glacier, beyond its current reductive stereotype. 

--> Web presence 

 

(The Photos are screenshots from the film-project mentioned above) 

Lecture & Panels at nacht:leben, Innsbruck - 26.1

I have been invited to "nacht:leben", a meeting and conference of club comissions in Innsbruck to talk about my 2018 book "Die Clubmaschine" (co-written with Jorinde Schulz) and how my relation to it and club culture in general changed in the last years of multiple crises and further precarisation of life-worlds. On the 26.1, I will be discussing this and other topics with the wonderful David Prieth and I can't wait for it!
 

--> https://www.pmk.or.at/events/nachtleben-club-kultur-konferenz