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For the last time before the summer break, we invite you for a lecture on issues and peculiarities of modern art and culture.
During the forthcoming open meeting, Paweł Janicki – media artist, interactive director and producer cooperating with WRO – will tell us about the posthuman practice as an answer for regression times, meaning limitations and repeatability of the references present in art, science and culture.
Dark ecology, cosmic pessimism, green nihilism plus optimistic and vital Russian cosmism will become the starting point for the journey towards the apocalypse through the application of thoughts and ideas of:
authors, such as Eugene Thacker, Nikolai Fyodorov, Timothy Morton;
artists, such as Keiji Haino, Theo Jansen;
weirdos, such as Theodore Kaczynski;
researchers from various fields, such as Robert Oppenheimer, Carl Sagan, Jonathan Huebner;
corporats, such as Peter Brabeck (Nestle CEO), Tony Hayward (BP),
as well as authors, artists, weirdos, researchers, corporats and aliens (though not exclusively) from the Dæd Baitz group.
Paweł Janicki – an independent artist, interactive director and producer working in the field of media art, microsound aesthetics and algorithmic composition, is a creator of audiovisual interactive systems, installations and performances. He creates and continuously develops software tools and interfaces. Special place in his activity takes developing software according to his own projects – and broadly – creating his own media either sabotaging already existing solutions.
Syllabus
Jako lekturę uzupełniającą do wykładu polecamy przygotowany przez Pawła Janickiego wybór tekstów dostępnych online oraz specjalną playlistę złożoną z utworów sprzyjających rozważaniom o regresie.
- Jonathan Huebner, A possible declining trend for worldwide innovation
- Matt Patches, Ask a Philosopher: What’s Up With True Detective’s Rust Cohle?
- Capsula Mundi
- Pavel Godfrey, Cosmic Pessimism: An Interview With Jute Gyte
- Eugene Thacker, Cosmic Pessimism
- Anya Bernstein, Cyborgs, Weak Cosmists, and a Russian Planet
- Mike Davis, Did the writer of ‘True Detective’ plagiarize Thomas Ligotti and Others?
- Eugene Thacker, Divine Darkness
- Mark Sagoff, Do We Consume Too Much?
- Jacek Małczyński + Renata Tańczuk (red.), Do rzeczy! Szkice kulturoznawcze (PL)
- Mark Townsend + Jason Burke, Earth ‘will expire by 2050’
- Ekologie – translations anthology (PL)
- Alejandro de Acosta, Green Nihilism or Cosmic Pessimism
- Keiji Haino, I want to be a bad boy, right until the end
- Eugene Thacker, In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy
- Theodore Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future
- Is The Planet Really In Danger Of Running Out Of Resources?
- Kal Spelletich’s blog
- Marina Simakova, No Man’s Space: On Russian Cosmism
- R. Djordjevic, Russian Cosmism (with the selective bibliography) and it’s uprising effect on the development of space research
- Alex Sutcliffe, Schopenhauer, Pessimism & black metal
- Agnieszka Jelewska (red.), Sztuka i technologia w Polsce. Od cyberkomunizmu do kultury makerów (PL)
- Kate Kiefer Lee, The Art Of The Corporate Apology
- Agnieszka Jelewska + Michał Krawczak, The difficult relations between art, science and technology in Poland
- Camila Ruz, The six natural resources most drained by our 7 billion people
- Laura Villadiego, The world running out of resource, and it’s not oil
- Alex Blasdel, Timothy Morton: ‘A reckoning for our species’: the philosopher prophet of the Anthropocene
- Björk’s letters with Timothy Morton
- Timothy Morton’s blog
- Finn Janning, True Detective: Pessimism, Buddhism or Philosophy?
- Jill Colgan, World running out of resources: UN