Burning Futures: On Ecologies of Existence
#4 Coexistence, Planetarity and Uncertainty
With Patricia Reed
Moderation: Margarita Tsomou, Maximilian Haas
Part of the series "Burning Futures: On Ecologies of Existence"
Part of #HAUonline
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The situation of our present can be seen as an historic consequence of emphasizing “existence” over “coexistence” - a picturing of the human motivated only by securing its own existential material wants, being but one example as Sylvia Wynter has noted. Although the case for some time, at the level of lived experience the current corona crisis shows the magnitude of our entanglement, a condition of coexistence that is irreducible to exclusively interhuman relations. In her lecture, Patricia Reed examines the term “planetarity” (coming from Earth System sciences) as a demand for a perspectival shift to coexistence, in order to be able to access different scales of reality – including more-than-human interdependencies. How does “planetarity” recondition our understanding of the “local”, how do picturings of the human change when upheld relationally, and how are linkages to be built between scientific knowledge and socio-political responsibilities?
Patricia Reed is an artist, designer and writer based in Berlin. She has published and lectured on issues such as on (techno)feminism, situated knowledge within planetary dimensions, entanglement and systems of care, xenofeminism, architecture and computation, aesthetics and politics. In her recent work, ecological crises are an important framework for these discussions.
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