The next leg of our European moralizing tour is taking place tomorrow at HU Berlin - please join us for a frutiful dicussion!
Impulsvortrag u. Workshop mit Kilian Jörg & Alexis Shotwell
21. Mai 2025, 12-14 Uhr, Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Medientheater in der Georgenstraße 47, HU-Berlin
Why is „moralizing“ mostly regarded as a pejorative conversation ender today? How did this start? The term is often – especially from the left – seen as the purview of the pursed-lips privileged prude that are disregarding the material grounds and social complexities of capitalist life. To be moralizing is to be naive, preposterous and even apolitical. Thus, while most want to be ethical humans, few want to appear to be moralizing under any circumstances.
In this presentation, we examine how we have gotten to this point and if moralizing is happening whether we want it or not. We ask if a rejection of moralizing as judgemental condemnation is perhaps in itself an oversimplification neoliberal philosophy thrives on. By reviewing radical sources of anarchist moralizing, we want to reformulate it as a situated, concrete form of custom- and community-building in a shared planetary situation of ongoing catastrophe. We argue that this kind of moralizing might be essential for the long breath that transformative politics require in today’s dire situation.
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