NEW NOW. Neomythologies and the Disintegration of Reality

The NEW NOW program has been laucnhed with a discussion on what contemporary mythmaking is and whether mythological thinking can resist the disintegration of reality on a global scale and on the level of day-to-day actions. How can radical mythology help us adapt to climate change, decrease inequality, and promote a feminist agenda? And what cultural “traces” will we leave behind for the generations to come? Speakers: - Federico Campagna (a philosopher and writer; in 2009 he co-founded the (now defunct) multilingual platform for critical theory Through Europe); - Reza Negarestani (a philosopher and writer; Negarestani’s most recent project focuses on worldmaking and the question of what it means to inhabit a world as what Wittgenstein would have called a lifeform); - Sarah Shin (a publisher, editor, writer and curator. She is also among the co-founders of Silver Press, a feminist publisher, and Ignota Books, an experimental platform exploring technology, myth-making and magic).