Civilization, Technology and Consciousness
Friday 11 April, from 6.30 pm
screening: 7.30
cocktails and exchange with Felix Stalder (ZHdK) after
Peter Lamborn Wilson / Hakim Bey
A film by World-Information.Net – Konrad Becker/Felix Stalder
In his last interview, cultural theorist Peter Lamborn Wilson draws a wide arc through the history of civilization, technology and consciousness. As the author of “Temporary Autonomous Zone” and dozens of other books, including titles like “Pirate Utopias”, he inspired several generations. He died one day after the last recording of this interview in May 2022.
Camera: Fred Barney Taylor, NY Support: Jim Fleming, Lewanne Jones
Postproduction: Georg Schütz, Sound: Konrad Becker
(57min. 2022)
Felix Stalder is a professor for Digital Culture at the Zurich University of the Arts. His work focuses on the intersection of cultural, political and technological dynamics, in particular on new modes of commons-based production, control society, copyright and transformation of subjectivity. He not only works as an academic, but also a cultural producer, being a moderator of the mailing list , and member of World Information Institute in Vienna, as well the “Technopolitics Working Group (both in Vienna). Among his recent publications are “Digital Solidarity” (PML & Mute 2014) and “The Digital Condition” Polity Press, 2018).