"On Extinction": Ben Ware in conversation with Kate Warlow-Corcoran скачать в хорошем качестве

"On Extinction": Ben Ware in conversation with Kate Warlow-Corcoran

How might we imagine a future that is not simply an extension of the blighted present? In this event, Ben Ware will argue that as we face ‘the end of all things’, we must face our apocalyptic future without flinching. In fact, extinction is the very lens through which we should examine our current reality. Radical politics today should not be concerned with merely averting the worst but rather with beginning again at the end. To think about the future in this way is itself a form of liberation that might incubate the necessary radical solutions we need. Through a philosophical and psychoanalytic critique of our damaged times, engaging with contemporary debates such as anti-natalism, de-extinction, and the nature of modern eco-activism, Ware will argue that we can only consider our collective end by treating it as a starting point. Ben Ware is Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and the Visual Arts (CPVA) at King’s College London and Philosopher in Residence at the Serpentine Galleries, London. He has published widely on modern European philosophy, the philosophy of Wittgenstein, continental critical theory and modernist aesthetics. His latest book is On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End (Verso, 2024). Kate Warlow-Corcoran is an Editor at The Philosopher and coordinates their programme of Groups and Classes.