Dienstag, 3. März 2026

"Une Île et une nuit" @ Grubenkino St. Marx, 11.3.2026

As a representative of the wonderful people of the ZAD Quartier Libre de Lentillieres I will be showing their film "Une Ile et une nuit" (An Island and a night) at the site of an up and coming fight in Vienna: the St. Marx territory that will NOT be transformed into an overpriced event hall for shitty international acts and their ticket vendor monopolies. The film will be a wonderful inspiration of how much more beautiful diversity is possible on such urban spaces - be it in Dijon or Vienna. The will be food and a lovely atmosphere to connect with your local struggles <3 Hope to see you there!


  

Sonntag, 1. Februar 2026

Pour une culture de l'écologie joyeuse. Réflexions sur des nouvelles institutions culturelles pour nos luttes @ presentation á La Generale, Paris

As a little artistic practice I have started sewing "Ich mach dich Zwentendorf"-flags for every ecologically motivated occupation that happens in Austria. Above you can see the first one hanging at the protest camp against the A26 in Linz.
Anyways, I am also touring the ideas of ecological holidays in general and the Zwentendorf-Holiday (or Cancellation-Day) and am very glad to present the concept tomorrow and the wonderful La Generale in Paris. 

Find a short invitation here: https://www.lagenerale.fr/fr/projet/mardi-informel-de-la-generale-34115

And if you want to know more about the holiday, my homepage is a good place to start ;)

https://www.kilianj.org/cancellation-day


Freitag, 30. Januar 2026

“Hope is a Stance”: Ecology, Aesthetics, and Pluralities of Reason - Podcast-Conversation

 


"Philosopher and artist Dr Kilian Jörg delves into some of modernity’s insidious problems: the climate crisis, the loss of ritual, polarisation, and ‘the hope gap’."

What an honor to speak with Johanna Magin from @mindandlifeeu.bsky.social  to speak at such length about my work, ranging from rituals, activism, art, reasonings and hope in ecological collapse in "The Enactive Fold"-Podcast! The description text of the Podcast is so humbling, I will let it speak for itself:

What if we began to think of reason as plural, reasons or reasonings, rather than the monolithic Reason from on high? What would it be like to think with all five senses, going beyond our habitual ocularcentrism? What if affect were both disruptor and the source of our greatest inflexibility? What role does ritual have in metabolizing the whole spectrum of human affect, both individually and collectively? What relationship holds between beauty and ethics in times such as these? What can art, philosophy, and activism learn from one another? How can we create alliances across sociological divides that keep theorists and activists separate? Finally, how can we create more plausible scenarios of hope for a greater number of people?

This conversation was possibly the most wide-ranging I’ve had so far on the podcast. As you’ll hear, Dr Kilian Jörg is a capacious and audacious thinker, and has reflected long and hard on some of modernity’s most recalcitrant and most insidious problems: problems ranging from the climate crisis to the loss of ritual, from polarization to ‘the hope gap.’ But they don’t just do the hard thinking; they are also engaging with these problems from the ground up, reaching across sociological divides that may seem unbridgeable to many. A kaleidoscopic thinker, Kilian is as fluent in the realm of philosophy — drawing from Isabelle Stengers, Bruno Latour, and Michel Serres — as they are in the world of art and ecological justice, inspired by the likes of Timothy Morton and Elin Kelsey. All in all, this conversation was a masterclass in what it means to refuse the dualisms between thinking and acting, between theory and activism, and to invoke the possibility of pluralism in the face of pure criticality.


Donnerstag, 22. Januar 2026

Déconstruire le système automobile, reconstruire nos désirs. Psychanalyse de l’auto-destruction @ Institut Momentum, Paris 31.1

I am very honored to be able to present my book "Auto-Destruction" at length at the Institut Momentum in Paris. Their work continues to inspire me and I am looking forward to very fruitful and productive discussions on 31st of January from 15-18h!

 

Avec le capitalisme consumériste libéral, une nouvelle normalité s’est imposée, normalité, qui, malgré le cortège de désastres écologiques qu’elle engendre, apparaît couramment comme la seule solution possible. There Is No alternative – il faut toujours croître, s’étendre, aller plus haut, plus vite, plus loin, consommer, consumer. La voiture constitue, depuis bientôt un siècle, la clef de voûte de notre organisation spatiale, sociale et affective. Dans ce séminaire, Kilian Jörg se livrera à une psychanalyse de cette « auto–destruction » afin de déconstruire notre addiction à l’automobile et au système qui l’engendre, véritable monopole radical, pour reprendre les termes d’Ivan Illich. 

Ancien petit garçon amoureux des voitures, Kilian Jörg explorera la façon dont la bagnole influence l’idée que nous nous faisons de la « liberté », de la « normalité », de la « raison » et de la « nature » au point de transformer chacun de nous en micro-fasciste. Ielle tentera d'esquisser des issues à notre situation en impasse à partir d’une politisation de la voiture. Car quelque chose se déplace dans le discours ambiant. Là où les précédentes générations célébraient la voiture comme une promesse de liberté juvénile, on la combat aujourd’hui de plus en plus comme un danger pour la survie planétaire.


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Dienstag, 20. Januar 2026

Towards a culture of joyful ecology. Reflections on new cultural institutions to help us in our struggles - English translation online

 

A photo from 2025's Zwentendorf-Holiday

"Discussions about the environment are too rarely accompanied by positive representations. Yet joy and desire are powerful levers for action. Artists Kilian Jörg and -h- propose, through two examples chosen in France and Austria, to reclaim ecological and social victories in order to build new cultural institutions that are positive and inspire hope."

Our text about the Zwentendorf-Holiday and the Jour d'Abandon in the ZAD NDDL is now translated into English!

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