Burning Futures: On Ecologies of Existence

HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Margarita Tsomou, Maximilian Haas

Burning Futures: On Ecologies of Existence is a society podcast hosted by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Margarita Tsomou, Maximilian Haas. It has 12 episodes, with the latest published February 2022.

Burning Futures: On Ecologies of Existence#Too little, too lateA look at the state of our planet gives every reason to worry – and to think. The speed and extent of the environmental disasters looming over us with climate change, species extinction, extreme weather events, pollution and overuse of land, air and water, etc. are unprecedented and as real as they are incomprehensible. The slow violence of these transformations has accelerated to a staccato of events. The series of lectures and discussions at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, "Burning Futures: On Ecologies of Existence", initiated by Magarita Tsomou (HAU) and curated by Maximilian Haas, looks at the escalating and indeed apocalyptic discourses of the coming catastrophes against the background of ever-growing ecological crises and debates ways and aims of political action. While we can still discuss these issues in a relatively safe and sound environment, in the global South and elsewhere the ecologies of human existence are already be

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