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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nA three-day retreat in the Jura mountains to reflect on fossils and deep time narratives and how they have been uncovered (imagined? re\/de\/constructed?) by geologists. How can we develop other perspectives on the history of humanity, especially in relation to nature and the earth, the biological and the mineral \u2013 non-utilitarian, non-exploitative, circular, symbiotic, non-anthropocentric?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And: let’s get political! How does deep time (going way back into the past) relate to long-termism (going way forward into the future), and why is this Silicon Valley-based ideology so devoid of utopian thinking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The research findings of the retreat will feed into the exhibition \u00abPast Deep Future\u00bb curated by Jan von Oordt<\/a> and Roland Fischer<\/a> at EAC (les halles)<\/a>, Porrentruy, opening: 30 September<\/p>\n\n\n\n discussion topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n evolution of narratives, psychology of media and popular culture\/rumors \u2013 what makes good stories, when do they hit resonance frequencies? deep time and the gaia theory, history of geology, catastrophism\/collapsology and our recurrent longing for the crash, popular tales (non scientific explanations) of fossils, reading landscapes as archives, recent social utopias (dialectic materialism\/history as progress vs backward culture\/degrowth\/community romanticism), solar punk as a new socialist realism, looking back\/looking ahead: archives as treasure troves of possible futures, rooted speculations<\/p>\n\n\n\n invited special guest: Hunter Longe<\/a>, zooming in: Eva Horn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n fossil expert: Bernhard Hostettler, Natural History Museum, Bern<\/p>\n\n\n\n book\/anarchist movements expert: Fredi Krebs, St. Ursanne<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n excursions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n collective fossil hunting, visit of the old limestone mine in St Ursanne\/Mont Terri project\/mountain lab, visit of private book collection of Fredi Krebs (focus area: history of anarchist movements\/1960-1980 utopias)<\/p>\n\n\n\n starts: Friday 22 Sept, late afternoon, ends: Sunday 24 Sept, late afternoon<\/p>\n\n\n\n shorter visits also welcome<\/p>\n\n\n\n location:<\/p>\n\n\n\n old Condor bike factory, Courfaivre, Swiss Jura (50mins from Basel, 30 mins from Biel, 1h15mins from Bern, 3h30 from Paris) and EAC (les halles), Porrentruy<\/p>\n\n\n\n costs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n free, accommodation\/food will be covered, all transport needs to be covered by participants<\/p>\n\n\n\n