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Speculative Ecologies Launch and Podcast

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Launch of the essay collection Speculative Ecologies: Plotting Through the Mesh (Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2019), featuring lectures and a live podcast.  

Sunday, 26 January 2020 // 17.00 – 23.00

PUNCTUMKrásova 803/27, 130 00 Praha 3 – Žižkov

Watch the recording of the event below.

The evening has been conceived as an open session discussing the topics provoked by the book, namely the ongoing specter of climate change, the role of art and making for the mitigation of its effects, and the position of contemporary philosophical theory on the environmental problems (and solutions) at hand. 

Schedule:

17.00 – Introduction to Speculative Ecologies

17.10 – Kateřina Kovářová: Technology at the Service of Environmental Ethics

18.30 – Paul Chaney: Towards Appropriate Accelerationism?

20.00 – Panel discussion with Louis Armand, Paul Chaney, Seb Chum, Xenogoth, @baroquespiral and the audience   

21.00 – sounds by TL;DR 

Moderator: Vít Bohal

The event was kindly supported by the Agosto Foundation, who were also launching their ongoing series Speculative Ecologies: The Fertile Ground Between Art and Ecology as part of their media library. 

Please visit https://agosto-foundation.org/mediateka/speculative-ecologies


Speculative Ecologies: Křest a Podcast

neděle 26. ledna 2020 // 17.00 – 23.00

PUNCTUM, Krásova 803/27, 130 00 Praha 3 – Žižkov

Dovolujeme si vás pozvat na křest sbírky esejů Speculative Ecologies: Plotting Through the Mesh (Litterraria Pragensia Books, 2019), a s ním spojené přednášky a živý podcast.

Večer bude volně navazovat a řešit témata knihy, konkrétně stle se zhoršující stav globálního klimatu, role umění a tvorby pro zmírnění jeho dopadů, a přístup současné filozofie a teorie k těmto environmentálním problémům dneška.

Rozvrh:

17.00 – Úvod do Spekulativní ekologie

17.10 – Kateřina Kovářová: Technology at the Service of Environmental Ethics

18.30 – Paul Chaney: Towards Appropriate Accelerationism?

20.00 – Panelová diskuze: Louis Armand, Paul Chaney, Seb Chum, Xenogoth, @baroquespiral a obecenstvo   

21.00 – zvuky: TL;DR 

Moderátor: Vít Bohal

Večer se koná za podpory Nadace Agosto Foundation, která současně bude křtít novou část své mediatéky zvanou Speculative Ecologies: Umělecké spekulace s ekologickým myšlením. 

Navštivte: https://agosto-foundation.org/cs/mediateka/speculative-ecologies

Vstup zdarma.

Večer bude veden převážně v angličtině.


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