Already one day after our wonderful Brussels-event, we are posting the next Call for Philosophy Unbound - this time on the other side of the world: in Chandigarh, India. For the second time it will happen on this magnificent sub-continent and this time we will focus on a topic that is especially virulent in the region: Toxicity.
Toxicity is also a topic which will occupy me personally in the next months, culminating in the processual exhibition "Toxic Temple" taking place in collaboration with Anna Lerchbaumer at AIL in Vienna in February (more information on that very soon). I will already give a performative lecture at Chitkara University about the conceptual thoughts behind the exhibition and will build some tentative installations made of garbage I found in field explorations in the lands of Pubjab.
The Call for PU#26 already gives you an idea of where we want to be going with the topic "Toxicity":
We live in toxic times. By using the concept of «Anthropocene», we try to make sense of our ecologically catastrophic condition of global warming, mass extinction, rising sea level, CO2 and acidification levels. Toxic pollutants such as sulfurdioxides, plastics and aerosols are marking more and more of our landscapes, which will take millennia to recover.
Toxicity has come to stay. The question at hand is if we, as humans, as mammals, as earthly critters, and who of us – since we are all differently vulnerable to these changes by virtue of our global positioning and socioeconomic status – will be able to stay as well, living under these increasingly toxic conditions.
To a certain degree, we will have to learn to live with Toxicity as a planetary condition for the next millennia. Of course we will have to reduce our toxic emissions as much as possible, but: Our soil is already depleted, our earth is already filled with millions of barrels of nuclear waste, our rivers are already spoiled, our landscapes are full of plasticides and our air has thickened.
The catastrophic times we live in call for the invention of lifestyles that cultivate Toxicity in new ways, in order to overcome it on the long run. This includes a re-thinking and decomposition of toxic gender roles and norms, pernicious global chains of production and exploitation, and poisonous politics of hate and segregation.
How to live within toxic lands and discourses? How to create a saner place within madness? How to minimize toxicity without becoming poisoned? How to decompose the status quo in order to create more sustainable relations of living and dying on this planet?
Find more information on the Call here.
Toxicity is also a topic which will occupy me personally in the next months, culminating in the processual exhibition "Toxic Temple" taking place in collaboration with Anna Lerchbaumer at AIL in Vienna in February (more information on that very soon). I will already give a performative lecture at Chitkara University about the conceptual thoughts behind the exhibition and will build some tentative installations made of garbage I found in field explorations in the lands of Pubjab.
The Call for PU#26 already gives you an idea of where we want to be going with the topic "Toxicity":
We live in toxic times. By using the concept of «Anthropocene», we try to make sense of our ecologically catastrophic condition of global warming, mass extinction, rising sea level, CO2 and acidification levels. Toxic pollutants such as sulfurdioxides, plastics and aerosols are marking more and more of our landscapes, which will take millennia to recover.
Toxicity has come to stay. The question at hand is if we, as humans, as mammals, as earthly critters, and who of us – since we are all differently vulnerable to these changes by virtue of our global positioning and socioeconomic status – will be able to stay as well, living under these increasingly toxic conditions.
To a certain degree, we will have to learn to live with Toxicity as a planetary condition for the next millennia. Of course we will have to reduce our toxic emissions as much as possible, but: Our soil is already depleted, our earth is already filled with millions of barrels of nuclear waste, our rivers are already spoiled, our landscapes are full of plasticides and our air has thickened.
The catastrophic times we live in call for the invention of lifestyles that cultivate Toxicity in new ways, in order to overcome it on the long run. This includes a re-thinking and decomposition of toxic gender roles and norms, pernicious global chains of production and exploitation, and poisonous politics of hate and segregation.
How to live within toxic lands and discourses? How to create a saner place within madness? How to minimize toxicity without becoming poisoned? How to decompose the status quo in order to create more sustainable relations of living and dying on this planet?
Find more information on the Call here.
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