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What if art is not just a mirror of the world but a factory for its future?
This project brings artists and writers into dialogue, exploring how both groups generate knowledge through distinct but complementary methods--philosophic fabulation on the one hand, perception and affect on the other. In an age where we are drowning in data yet starved for meaning, alternative futures argues that art is an urgent toolkit for survival: a laboratory of sensation and imagination that equips us to feel, not just forecast, the worlds to come.
This conversation asks not how to predict the future, but how to inhabit it--together, creatively, critically, and sensuously.
Bernd Herzogenrath
Bernd Herzogenrath is Professor of American literature and culture at Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is the author of An Art of Desire: Reading Paul Auster (1999) and An American BodyPolitic: A Deleuzian Approach (2010) and editor of The Farthest Place: The Music of John Luther Adams (2012) and DeleuzeGuattari & Ecology (2009). His latest publications include the collections The Films of Bill Morrison. Aesthetics of the Archive (2017), Film as Philosophy (2017), and Practical Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2020).
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