On the 29th of May, 17-18:30 CET, I have to honor to present my upcoming book at the Active Travel Academy of the University of Westminster! The talk will be online, so please tune in from wherever you are. Find all the details here.
In this external seminar, the artist and philosopher Kilian Jörg will present some key concepts from his forthcoming book “The Car and the Ecological Catastrophe“. The book seeks to understand the car as a key element in why modernity is stuck in an ecologically catastrophic lifestyle. Rather than being a mere machine among others, the car can be seen as a prosthesis that produces a hegemonic relationship with the environment and has produced the “Homogenocene”. In this sense, the problem of the car is not its exhaust fumes, but that it produces Nature as a consumer product. Kilian will develop this thesis by showing the recently made film “Nature is a beast” (by the collective Auto Affaire) and will elaborate on the history of its development, with a special focus on the history of fascism, the quelling of rebellion in the early days of automobility, our mundane affective entanglement through pop culture, and the sensual normalisation of the current hegemonial mobility system. Drawing on examples of recent activism, they will conclude by outlining some horizons for a future of more sustainable, joyful and plural relations and ways of moving through a planet in ecological crisis.
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