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Lecture | Art, Time, Climate, Crisis

Monday, October 17, 2022, 6:30 pm

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The last four decades have confronted us with the “end of history” in different ways. There was Fukuyama’s affirmative “end of history” nurturing the optimistic belief that the sense of history will realize or fulfill itself in the global proliferation of liberal-democratic societies. There was the postmodern farewell to “grand narratives” as another “end of history,” alternatively welcomed as a disengagement from false totalizations or criticized for denoting a lack of historical sensibility.

Today, the present seems challenged by a radically different version of the “end of history,” an existentially menacing and at the same time plain version of the end: one of dramatic climate change and ecosystem collapse. Unlike the liberal and the postmodern end, the current apocalyptic version lies in the assumption that the ecological transformation that the planet’s inhabitants experience could be of such vast magnitude that human life as such is threatened. This end confronts us with the image of humanity’s imminent self-extinction, without any form of resurrection.

Speaker Marcus Quent is a philosopher and writer. He is a research associate at the Department of Art History, Art Theory and Aesthetics at the Berlin University of the Arts.

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