Screening: Civilization, Technology and Consciousness

11. April, 6pm
screening: 7.30
cocktails and exchange with Felix Stalder after

Peter Lamborn Wilson / Hakim Bey

A video 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.

post research
regular dinner discussions, fostoering a wide plurality of research cultures

post research as in post modern – not as a position that overcomes the concept of research and leaves it behind, but as a position of complexity:

If there is a common denominator to all these postmodernisms, it is that of a crisis in representation: a deeply felt loss of faith in our ability to represent the real, in the widest sense. No matter whether they are aesthestic [sic], epistemological, moral, or political in nature, the representations that we used to rely on can no longer be taken for granted.

contamination #1

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).

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