"The Coming Catastrophe": Jairus Victor Grove on "Savage Ecology. War at the End of the World"

The coming catastrophe poses a challenge to thinking. Only recently have the interrelated events of human-induced climate change and mass extinction begun to unfold as a global media event of proportional magnitude. The proliferation of discourses around impending anthropogenic doom seems to have reached a virtual tipping point, from which there is no return to a “business as usual”-attitude. As the environmental conditions on which all human life depends change in ever more alarming rates, there seem to be few aspects of life, of policy making, and of theoretical work, that can remain unchanged. Scholars in the field of cultural and media theory, particularly in Weimar, are used to observing phenomena of change in terms of their historical becoming. While the identification of the historical causes (and causers) of anthropogenic change is decisive for the assessment of “what there is to be done”, the current situation is unique in that it also challenges habitual modes of thinking and forces us to train our eyes on the things to come.

As a part of this semesters "Bauhaus.Module", the lecture series "The Coming Catastrophe" invites everyone to Jairus Victor Grove's upcoming lecture titled "Savage Ecology. War at the End of the World".

Jairus Victor Grove is the director of the Hawai'i Research Center for Futures Studies and Associate Professor at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. In his own words, he describes his research topics as follows:
"My work so far has centered on the ecology and future of global warfare. I am interested in the ways war continues to expand, bringing an ever greater collection of participants and technologies into the gravitational pull of violent conflict. I am also interested in various approaches to global relations such as systems theory, cybernetics, and complexity theory, as well as the role new media play in altering the interface with global relations. In my spare time I collect vinyl and co-edit The Contemporary Condition with William E. Connolly." (http://politicalscience.hawaii.edu/faculty/Grove.html)

Topic: "Savage Ecology. War at the End of the World"
Date: 18th November 2019 (Monday!)
Time: 19:00-20:30 Uhr
Location: R 015, Bauhausstraße 11