Baustellenbesetzung gegen den Bau der Lobau-Autobahn

Since last Monday brave activists are blocking and occupying the construction of the Lobau-highway - a crazy dinosaur-modernist project (its original name was in fact "Reichsautobahn" and yes - it was first designed in this awful time) that seeks to build a highway through Vienna's only National park. 

That this has to be stopped is of course no question - and so I invite everybody in and around Vienna to come to the climate camp, show our solidarity and occupy with us! The climate camp itself is actually really nice to hang out - you can find it at Anfanggasse 2 in 1220 Vienna.  

On Thursday and Friday, 11-13h me and my friend Johannes Siegmund from Philosophy Unbound will hold little philosophical lectures on climate issues. I will talk about the Utopia of the car-free world (Friday), and Johannes about the relation of climate change, migration and racism (Thursday). Come bye and bring your tent - there is still a lot of space and the weather is nice! 

Philosophy Unbound #29 - Hin Fort Bewegung @F23 on 21st of August 2021

In collaboration with Rhizomatic Circus, Untere Willkyr and One Mess Gallery Philosophy Unbound will hold its 29th edition unter the title of "Hin Fort Bewegung" at the wonderful space of F23 in Vienna's outskirts. We have put together a formidable performance, film and installation program about the topics of mobility, movement, space and its appropriation and cordially invite you to join us there on the 21st of August!

More information here.

With carless.earth we will also do some installations and site-specific interventions in the context of the event.

Philosophy Unbound X Platz für Wien - this Friday, 18.9.2020 18-21h

 

I am very happy to announce that Philosophy Unbound will have it's first event since the Corona lock-downs. In collaboration with Platz für Wien (www.platzfuer.wien) we will investigate what many of witnessed during the Lock-Down period: how much nicer and calmer the urban public spaces can be if they aren't pestered with the catastrophic normality of auto-mobilized capitalism. 

 

On Friday, the 18th of September, from 18h on we will occupy Vienna's Kettenbrückengasse and have many performative interventions and discussions going on. 

Together with carless.earth I will also participate in a performative intervention on our utopia of the car-free planet.

And after 20h we will have an afterparty with the Critical Mass visiting us. 

 

Drop by - we are very excited about this experiment!

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carless.earth - Manifesto & next Philosophy Unbound Call online

 
Together with others, I have started a platform / initiative that wants to give a voice to the utopia of the car-free world. The carfree citiy can only be the first step towards a utopia (in the sense of "non-place") that radically gets rid of the exploitative, extractivist structures we call capitalism and that today wouldn't  be possible to maintain itself for a day without the car. A really green planet needs to be a carfree planet! Let's there to think the carless.earth!

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The manifesto has also been published at Berliner Gazette - please get in contact if you want to join our utopian vision!

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In a similar vein, the next - and first postcoronal - edition of Philosophy Unbound (#27) will be devoted to rethink and redo the public space. For this, we are joining forces with the initiative "Platz für Wien" to temporarily occupy a street in Vienna and perform and philosophize about other ways of making public than the modern, car-centered one!

Find the CALL here.

Philosophy Unbound #26 - TOXICITY - starting tomorrow

Philosophy Unbound has arrived in Punjab - at Chitkara University! Tomorrow I will give a talk together with Flora Löffelmann about Philosophy Unboud, opening up new spaces for thought and Toxicity at the Inaugural Ceremony (11:30). And on the 17th at 10:00 I will give a talk about my upcoming project Toxic Temple (with Anna Lerchbaumer) - documentation will follow.

With love from the scrapyards turned into artistic fields of exploration.

 

Toxicity - Philosophy Unbound #26 happening this January in Chandigarh, India

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.

Philosophy Unbound will happen in Brussels

I am very happy to announce that Philosophy Unbound will, after Vienna, Berlin and New Delhi, spread to its fourth city: Brussels!

Find the Call here and the poster below ... and see you there in December!

Image credits: Peter Jacquemyn

Disruptive Intervention at the Viennese Rathaus

As Philosophy Unbound we have been invited to creatively disrupt the normal ongoings of "Schwarzmarkt Wissen / Blackmarket Knowledge" having its 20th edition on "Rotes Wien / Red Vienna" on the 28th of September 2019 at the Viennese Rathaus.

To reflect the hidden presumptions and exclusions of (Habermas'ian) discourse ethics, we will investigate the corporeality of "rational" argumentation, how the skin of an argumentative opponent feels different to one you agree with, how a subject position any holder of an argument needs to acquire is subverted by bodily touch and ... cuddling. We are very much looking forward to invite you into our lustrous, fleshy and smelly underground cave behind the scenes and stages of Schwarzmarkt Wissen.

The full program folder can be found here & more information here.

Feel you at the Viennese Rathaus!

Philosophy Unbound #24 - MAKING KIN

I am very happy to announce that - as Philosophy Unbound - we will be organizing our second festival. After New Delhi last year, this time we will hold it in Vienna, the city were our collective first started from. The topic will be devoted to Donna Haraway's concept of MAKING KIN and it will take place at Schikaneder from 24th to 26th of May 2019. 

Afterwards the festival will continue in the location of the other collective I am involved in: Stoffwechsel - Ecologies of Collaboration will perform a "thought collective"in the 4 days after the festival from 27th to 30th of May!

Make kin, not babies - this is Donna Haraway’s appeal in times of growing ecological and political devastation. Make kin in unhinged times! Philosophy Unbound invites you to think together about community, new commitments and alliances beyond the traditional forms of family, patriarchy and established institutions. Who may consider whom family and in what context? Who is allowed to declare solidarity with whom? To team up? To rely on one another? And who is actually “fix zam”? 

In the radically new and catastrophic times which we’re trying to grasp with names like Anthropocene and Capitalocene, new forms of sharing the world, world-participation and response-ability are needed to enable the art of living and dying well for as many earthly critters as possible. How do we recollect ourselves on this poisoned, devastated, ruined planet? How do we want to imagine a common life and death beyond toxic norms? How can we create security and shelter beyond the biological family? How can queer ways of life reconcile us with the Chaosmos? How can newly created cooperations take a stand against resistance? And what happens if the newly established wants to dissolve again but can’t or isn’t allowed to? 

 

For more information see

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Männerwelt @ Philosophy Unbound #23 - A Thousand Masculinities

At the next philosophy unbound, "A Thousand Masculinities" I will present some ideas of a chapter (titles "Männerwelt" of my next upcoming book "Backlash - Essays zur Resilienz der Moderne" which will appear at Textem in 2019.

Philosophy Unbound #23 will take place on 19th of December 2018 @ Sprizer im Odeon, 1020 Vienna
more information: http://philosophyunbound.tumblr.com/

Interview for "The Public Life of The Mind"

I feel honored to have been invited to an interview by The Public Life of the Mind in London last June. In the interview I talk about philosophy unbound, its relationship to the arts and especially music as well as my personal take on what kind of practice of philosophy is interesting to me.

Find the interview here.

Philosophy Unbound #22: Radical Cities

After a longer, creative pause, Philosophy Unbound is back in Vienna with it's 22nd Edition! We've used this almost one year long phase of Viennese hibernation to rework on our concept and make it more interactive and outgoing. I think, our next Edition on "Radical Cities" - in collaboration with engagée Magazine, will be a great step forward and I hope to see many of you there. (I myself will be involved twice with a city walk and a little Night Lecture about the StVO. See you on Friday!

 

Philosophy Unbound #22: Radical Cities 

18.05.2018 // 18:30h - Citywalk - 19:30h - Programm im Raum D
@ Raum D / Q21 im Museumsquartier, Wien

Cities are spaces full of contradictions: repression, surveillance and neoliberalism concentrate in them but at the same time they promise emancipation, innovation and social experimentation. “Radical Cities” will stage this contradictions in Vienna. The night will start with performances in public spaces in between Haus des Meeres and Mariahilfer street and then move on to Raum D in Museumsquartier. 

Performances

• Kilian Jörg: „Stadt Sprechen Raum Lesen“  - Citywalk (18:30)

• Steffi Neuhuber & David Hoffmann: Manifest

• Alisa Beck: „Nein, eure Suppe ess ich nicht“ - Nebenwirkungen und Nachwehen widerständiger Praxis im mo.ë

• Sandro Huber & Tizian Rupp: “Erleuchtung an und für sich“

• Mads Floor Andersen & Sara Lanner: "Mosaic”

• Hannah Maneck und Ivo Eichhorn: “Gallus beyond Gallus” (Film, Gießen/Offenbach 2017)

• Gunnar Grandel: Raumstation

Installation/Publikation/Night Lectures

• Anna Lerchbaumer & Klemens Kohlweis: Rauminstallation

• engagée #6/7: “Radical Cities - Rebel Democracy”, das neue Heft gratis/gegen freie Spende.

• Night Lectures: Claudia Heu (LA Tent Cities), Flora Löffelmann (De/Population) & Kilian Jörg (StVO)

Grafik: Oskar Mayböck

More Information tba @:

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Photos of Detext

Some photos of Detext have been uploaded - more to come:

http://philosophyunbound.tumblr.com/

DETEXT - Schedule now online

...and the full program will follow by tomorrow! Very exciting about this!

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Philosophy Unbound – DETEXT – New Delhi, 9th-10th of March 2018

- First more concrete informations on Philosophy Unbound: DETEXT are online! -

http://philosophyunbound.tumblr.com/

Philosophy Unbound is a collective devoted to opening up new forms and spaces for philosophy outside its classical habitats. After many successful events, workshops and performances in Vienna, Austria and Berlin, Germany, Philosophy Unbound will now investigate the possibilities of its format in New Delhi, India.

Philosophy Unbound organises a two day mini-festival for performance and philosophy at the School of Arts and Aesthetics (SAA) at JNU from 9th to 10th of March 2018. In line with this open format, the topic of March’s event is DETEXT. Our format is held very open and we encouraged everybody – be it students, artists or researchers of various fields to send us their proposals for this first interdisciplinary gathering of that kind. Since most of our institutions regard only textual output as “serious” contributions, we want to open a space to detext and give you freedom to express your ideas outside the mastermedium of text. Show us an installation without having to worry about an explanatory text, give us a lecture without all the necessary footnotes to a rigid canon, dance your philosophical ideals without having to open your mouth to utter complete phrases! The program includes installations, video-projections, performances, reading sessions, lectures and much more.

Philosophy Unbound: DE:TEXT will take place on 9th & 10th of March 2018, 10-21h at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

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Participants include:
Mandara Vishwanath
SukhMehak Kaur
Murat Ates
Johannes Siegmund
Kilian Jörg
Anna Lerchbaumer
Pramod Komar
Shomo Choudhury
Jihyoung Park
Murari Jha
B Ajay Sharma
Paribartana Mohanty
Akansha Rastogi
Harshita Bathwal
Anupan Roy
Himanshu Hudeshai
Preeti Singh
Jigisha Bhattacharya
Srabasti Gosh
Arno Böhler
Janhavi Dharmankar
Susanne Valerie Granzer
Johannes Kretz
Lilly Kroth
Wei-Ya Lin
Veronika Maye
Martin Rumori
Anuradha Upadhyaya
Elisabeth Wilding
Aastha Gandhi

and many more


Photo by Bhole Nath

Philosophy Unbound: Detext - a three day festival in Delhi, India

My last year's visit to India bore unexpectedly huge fruits: this year I will be organising a three day festival of philosophy unbound in Delhi in March. Find the Call below - I am so excited that this is becoming reality!

Call for Action

Philosophy Unbound – DETEXT – New Delhi, 8th-10th of March 2018

- हिंदी संस्करण नीचे -

Dear friends,

Philosophy Unbound is a collective devoted to opening up new forms and spaces for philosophy outside its classical habitats. After many successful events, workshops and performances in Vienna, Austria and Berlin, Germany, Philosophy Unbound will now investigate the possibilities of its format in New Delhi, India.
Philosophy Unbound will organise a three day mini-festival for performative philosophy at the School of Arts and Aesthetics (SAA) at JNU and other locations from 8th to 10th of March 2018. Our format is held very open and we encourage everybody – be it students, artists or researchers of various fields to send us their proposals for this first interdisciplinary gathering of that kind. Your can propose a text, a reading, a lecture, a performance, a musical contribution, an intervention, an installation, a sit-in, a dance, a provocation or whatever else you deem necessary to get your philosophical point across.

In line with this open format, the topic of March’s event will be DETEXT. Since most of our institutions regard only textual output as “serious” contributions, we want to open a space to detext and give you freedom to express your ideas outside the mastermedium of text. Show us an installation without having to worry about an explanatory text, give us a lecture without all the necessary footnotes to a rigid canon, dance your philosophical ideals without having to open your mouth to utter complete phrases!

The three days in March are devoted to opening up philosophy as well as the arts to a true plurality of form. We are very much looking forward to your contribution. If you have any further questions, more detailed proposals or the like, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

The Philosophy Unbound Collective invites you to submit proposals (including a short Bio and Letter Motivation) until 20th of February 2018.

Yours,
The Philosophy Unbound Collective
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philosophyunbound@gmail.com
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कार्यवाही के लिए आह्वान

फिलोसाफी अनबाउड-डिटेकस्ट-नई दिल्ली, 8-10 मार्च 2018

प्यारे दोस्तों,

फिलोसॉफी अनबाउंड एक समूह है जो दर्शन शास्त्र को उसके पारम्परिक दायरे के बाहर नये रूप और समय में समृध्द करने के प्रति समर्पित है। विएना (ऑस्ट्रिया) औऱ बर्लिन (जर्मनी) में कई सफल कार्यक्रमों, कार्यशालाओं और अभिनयों के बाद फिलोसॉफी अनबाउंड नई दिल्ली(इंडिया) में अपने प्रारूप की गुंजाइश जाँचने जा रहा है।

फिलोसॉफी अनबाउंड जे.एन.यू और अन्य स्थानों पर 8 से 10 मार्च 2018 तीन दिवसीय पर्व का आयोजन करने जा रहा है। हमारा प्रारूप बहुत उदार है और हम भिन्न-भिन्न क्षेत्रों से ताल्लुक रखने वाले छात्रों, कलाकारों, शोधकर्ताओं को अपने प्रस्ताव इस बहुविषयक सभा में भेजने के लिए प्रोत्साहित करते हैं।

इस मुक्त प्रारूप को ध्यान में रखते हुए हमारे मार्च में होने वाले पर्व का विषय 'डिटेक्स्ट' है। चूँकि दर्शन शास्त्र से जुड़े अधिकतर संस्थान सिर्फ़ मजमूनी उत्पादन को एक गंभीर योगदान के रूप में स्वीकारते हैं, इसलिए हम एक ऐसी गुंजाइश पैदा करना चाहते हैं जहाँ मजमूनों के परे बात हो ('डिटेक्स्ट') और आपको स्वतंत्रता हो इस ढाँचे के बाहर अपने विचारों को प्रकट करने की। हमें एक इंस्टालेशन प्रस्तुत करें बिना व्याख्यात्मक विषय वाक्य की परवाह किये, हमें एक व्याख्यान दें बिना ज़रूरी पदलेखों की चिंता किये, अपने दार्शनिक विचारों को थिरकने दें बिना वाक्यों के ढाँचों को पूरा करने की ज़हमत किये।

मार्च में आने वाले यह तीन दिन समर्पित हैं दर्शन और कला से जुड़े सच्चे अनेकवादी रूपों को उघाड़ने के लिए। हम आपकी भागीदारी को लेकर बहुत उत्साहित हैं। अगर आपके कोई भी सवाल हों या विस्तार से किसी विषय में जानकारी चाहते हों तो कृपया हमें संपर्क करें।
फिलोसॉफी अनबाउंड आपको 20 फरवरी 2018 तक अपने प्रस्ताव(एक छोटे आत्म-परिचय और प्रेरणा पत्र सहित) जमा करने के लिए आमंत्रित करता है।

आपका अपना,
फिलोसॉफी अनबाउंड कलेक्टिव
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philosophyunbound@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/philosophyunbound/

Philosophy Unbound #17 - Bullshit

 

This Saturday, Philosophy Unbound will examine the vast realms of bullshit, gibberish and non-sense!

Sehr geehrte Forschungsgemeinde, liebe Bullshitologinnen und Bullshitologen, wir laden zum ersten internationalen Bullshitologiekongress! / Dear scientific community, most honoured fellow bullshitologists, we are very pleased to invite you to the first international congress on Bullshitology!

Contributions by (all in German this time)
Sebastian Lederle
Monsterfrau & Herbert Lacina
Mae Lune
Claudia Ungersbäck
Walter Ego
Yasmin Ritschl & Sandro Huber

The afterparty will take place at Wiener Freiheit!

Entry: Free Donation - Suggestion 5€ (we are a No-Budget Organisation: everything will go to the performers)

24th of June 2017 - 20h (sharp)
at Spektakel Wien, Hamburger Straße 14, 1050 Vienna 

detailed program on philosophyunbound.tumblr.com

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Explosophy - Saturday, 6.5.17 at Venster99 Vienna

Philosophy Unbound will have another of our Explosophy-parties at Venster99. We will have two wonderful live-acts and lena:k and myself will be DJing b2b all night long. I am very much looking forward to that!

//LINE UP//
FARCE soundcloud.com/farcenoise
Oskar May soundcloud.com/oskar-may

//DJs//
lena:k [Maschinenraum] soundcloud.com/alabama_whorley
KLN [Philosophy Unbound] https://soundcloud.com/klnkln

Entry: 5€

Door: 22h
Concerts: 23h

@Venster99 - Stadtbahnbogen 99, Währinger Gürtel, 1090 Vienna
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Love and Hate - Philosophy Unbound #15

Next Thursday, the 6th of April 2017, Philosophy Unbound will have its 15th edition with the title "Love and Hate"

Performances:

- Cléo Tabakian: tba
- Frieda Paris und Lukas Katzer: the    Ballade of _&_
- Georg Eckmayr: tba
- Jad al Mubaraki: BAGHDADI
- Nicole Sabella & Maria Christina Hilber: SPINNEFEIND
- Sonja Riegler und Antoine Quintard: Il faut danser l'amour.

How is our love organized? How do we canalize our feelings of hatred? And: What is love? In (queer-) feminist love relationships we free our desire and seek new forms of relationships. Are we driven by our emotions – do we control them ourselves? Or have the algorithms of Tinder and the social media taken over that task a long time ago? When we like and confirm things, we glide through emotional capitalism that is sparked by longings and emotions without any resistance. Who profits from our emotions? Who deserves our emotions?
Lustful/boring has become our guideline. Love and hatred are lustful, whereas we consider the overtones, that do not directly stimulate us, to be boring.

Doors: 19h
Start: 20h


Afterparty at Celeste (free donations)
music:
- Soundküche (Graz/Wien)
- Luca b2b Windom (Mellow Heat, Wien)

Entry: Free Donation - Suggestion 5€ (we are a No-Budget Organisation: everything will go to the performers)

Explosophy #2 - 2 Years Philosophy Unbound

Philosophy Unbound is excited to celebrate its second anniversary with its friends, supporters and adversaries. For this special occasion we are proud to announce the performances of Anna de Marco, Max Oravin and Iris Julian. These will be followed by our our very own Fernando Johansson Will and Kilian Jörg back to back in an open end DJ-Set.

14th of January 2017, 22h-7h
Venster99, Gürtelbogen 99, 1090 Wien

22:30  Oravin
Die Grenzbereiche zwischen Noise und elektronischer Tanzmusik, Singen und Sprechen, Sprache und Sprachlosigkeit erkundend, steht Oravin sowohl in der Tradition des deutschen New Wave als auch der österreichischen experimentellen Dichtung.

23:30  Anna de Marco


00:30 KLN b2b Fernando Johansson [Philosophy Unbound Berlin/Vienna]
https://soundcloud.com/klnkln
https://www.mixcloud.com/fernandojohansson/

22:00 - 04:00 “the in/visible club culture project”
Every hour there will be a performative intervention by
Iris Julian.

Doors 22:00

Entry: Free Donation - Suggestion 5€ (we are a No-Budget Organisation: everything will go to the performers)

Philosophy Unbound is a Vienna and Berlin based collective dedicated to open up new forms of and spaces for philosophy. For more information see: philosophyunbound.tumblr.com
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