The New Alphabet
2019—2022
Is it possible to imagine an overabundance of multifarious fields of languages, knowledge production, and learning practices beyond one universal matrix? Can common reference points and collective action be enabled without monopolistic force? How can knowledge be both situated and globally relevant?
Imperial Realism
With Rana Dasgupta, A. Dirk Moses, Elif Sarican, David Wengrow, moderated by Anselm Franke English original version Roundtable discussion, May 28, 2022
Case study by Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz
English original version May 28, 2022
A. Dirk Moses: Imperial Realism
English original version Presentation, May 28, 2022
Brian Holmes: Live like a River. Civilization and Schismogenesis
English original version Case study, May 28, 2022
Rana Dasgupta: The Variety of Political Cosmology
English original version Presentation, May 28, 2022
Robbie Richardson: The Indigenous Critique
English original version Case study, May 28, 2022
Elif Sarican: Case Study on the Kurdish Women’s Movement
English original version Case study, May 28, 2022
Anselm Franke, Bernd Scherer: Welcome | Die Zivilisationsfrage
English original version May 27, 2022
Eyal Weizman (Forensic Architecture): Counter Forensics
English original version Presentation, May 27, 2022
Alain Schnapp: The Dawn of Ruins
English original version Presentation, May 27, 2022
Liv Nilsson Stutz: Whose Life, and Whose Death Matters?
English original version Presentation, May 27, 2022
Johannes Müller: Egalitarian Cities: the Case of Tripolye Mega-Sites (4100-3600 BCE)
English original version Presentation, May 27, 2022
Alfredo González-Ruibal: The Dawn of Africa
English original version Presentation, May 27, 2022
Mirjam Brusius: Counter-Archives as Evidence
English original version Presentation, May 27, 2022
Christina von Braun: There Are Some Blind Spots in Everything
English original version Keynote, May 27, 2022
David Wengrow: Anfänge, The Dawn of Everything, Die Zivilisationsfrage.
Moderated by Alpa Shah English original version Keynote, conversation, May 27, 2022
Erhard Schüttpelz: Old World, New World: On Being Civilized
English original version Keynote, May 27, 2022
Robin D. G. Kelley: The Dusk of Everything?
English original version Keynote, May 27, 2022
What if the Dam was removed? Part 2
With Anthony D. Barnosky, Lesley Green, Orit Halpern, Elizabeth A. Hadly, Brian Holmes, Michelle Murphy, Allison Stegner, Karolina Sobecka, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Stephanie Wakefield, Mi You Original version (German, English) Presentations, conversations, May 21, 2022
Bad Words #4
»I am inviting you to not sleep tonight.« After the first season took Ilse Aichinger’s titular essay »Bad Words« and its resistant poetics as its point of departure, Etel Adnan’s »Night« takes us into the darkness.