Morphic Figurations In the summer of 2019, James Lovelock, who formulated the Gaia hypothesis, celebrated his 100th birthday. With his theory that Earth (Greek: Gaia) is a living being, he prompted a shift in thinking the far-reaching implications of which are only now becoming apparent. Alarming levels of plastic in the environment, unprecedented numbers of…
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Marie-Eve Levasseur
Keynote during the symposium: My Experiments in Thinking the Next Possible World Media artist Marie-Eve Levasseur will present some of her recent works addressing the relevance and the emancipatory potential of speculative practices like feminist (science) fiction in her artistic practice. As a method, the artist engages in an act of imagining, for example, benevolent poet…
Madhuja Mukherjee
Keynote during the symposium: The Dogs, the City, and the Stars ‘7 hours; only 7 hours left’. The classic Bengali science fiction novel Lubdhak (2006), by Nabarun Bhattacharya, opens in this manner. Gradually it becomes clear that there is a plan to banish the street dogs. Random killings take place until a program is launched. The…