Open call: Collapse as Transformation
Application deadline: 30/11/2024
The New Institute, Hamburg, DE
Global systems are in a process of collapsing – ecologically, economically, politically, culturally, and spiritually. We are living in the twilight of the mastery and possession of nature paradigm. The responses offered by intellectual and political establishments are exhausted. New ways of living together are urgently needed. Practices rooted in an ethical worldview that recognizes dependency, fragility, finitude, and mortality may offer a way forward. The question is how this ethical self-understanding might form the basis of ways of living in light of collapse.
This call invites applications for Program Chairs, Individual Fellows, and Research Groups who work on responses to »collapse« within the context of our three research areas: Socio-Economic Transformation, The Future of Democracy, and The Human Condition in the 21st Century. The program is interested in approaches coming from the humanities and social sciences, especially philosophy, religion, psychoanalysis, critical legal theory and economics. At the same time, it is addressed to practitioners coming from politics, journalism, business, and the arts.