02. Dezember
17.30 Uhr - 19.30 Uhr
Veranstalter:
MESH & Hescor
Ort:
Auerbach Library, MESH
Weyertal 59
50937 Köln
Information:
In the environmental humanities in particular, the deepening planetary polycrisis of the 21st century has been diagnosed as indexing a crisis of human planetary habitation – the ways, that is, in which the majority of humans have come to inhabit and relate to their environments, and how dominant modalities of habitation (fail to) acknowledge the presence and needs of other beings. The polycrisis, in this view, pertains to how many of us have come to live together with other animals, plants, fungi, and microbes, and how modern lifeways have tended to undercut the conditions of planetary habitability for an increasing number of nonhumans.
The evolution of life on Earth (biosphere) is critically propelled by the making and unmaking of patterns of habitability, clearing the path for particular multispecies constellations while disrupting or undoing others. Conditions of habitability are not simply given, however, they are co-made by humans and nonhumans, affecting, and playing out on, different temporal and spatial scales. Habitability is also shaped by how humans and nonhumans arrange themselves within broader multispecies neighborhoods, and how these are negotiated in the first place. Discussing planetary habitability and multispecies coexistence can therefore not be separated from a situated politics of more-than-human life.
The HESCOR MESH Vision Forum Session explores these themes through the lens of planetary philosophy, Anthropocene history, and multispecies archaeology.
The HESCOR MESH Vision Forum Session comprises three separate yet interconnected events, each spanning two successive days, this is the lecture on "Planetary Cohabitability and Coarticulation of Life" by Dr Iwona Janicka (Posthuman philosophy, more-than-human politics, and planetary cohabitability).
More information: https://mesh.uni-koeln.de/events/meshworks/hescor-mesh-vision-forum-session