End of Man, End of World: How We Talk About It

Have apocalyptic images – from medias to movies or TV series – ever been so numerous and powerful, revealing and nourishing an obsessive common fear? If the new involvement of sciences in politics did not create the narratives of the end of the world or of the human itself, it indeed deeply multiplied them by linking the threat of techno-sciences to the risk of the post/non-human.

Faculty of Arts – room 200

The End of the Human World: Paving the Post-Anthropocentric Discourse 
Who: Pierre Montebello
What: Short Lecture
When: 9:15 PM
Language: French with simultaneous translation in Czech

The End of the World Today
Who: Michael Foessel
What: Short Lecture
When: 9:45 PM
Language: English

The Human Existence in the 21st Century
Who: Csaba Olay
What: Short Lecture
When: 10:15 PM
Language: English

Man Beyong Mankind: The Myth of the Mutant in Contemporary Philosophies 
Who: Benedetta Zaccarello
What: Short Lecture
When: 10:45 PM
Language: English

On Walter Benjamin’s Sentence: “There Is No Time to Fall” 
Who: Andrzej Leder
What: Short Lecture
When: 11:15 PM
Language: English

Faculty of Arts – room 217

Case for a Rookie Hangman by Pavel Juráček (1969)
Who: Jan Bierhanzl
What: Screening and Commentary
When: 11:30 PM-1:15 AM
Language: Czech

The Trade Fair Palace – Studio Hrdinů

Cinema and Eschatology
Who: Michael Foessel
What: Screening and Commentary
When: 1:45-2:45 AM
Language: English

The Trade Fair Palace

The Human Mask by Pierre Huyghe
What: Video art by French artist Pierre Huyghe. The video will play all through the Night. Two screenings will be introduced by NGP chief curator Adam Budak.
Who: Adam Budak
When: 9:30 PM and 11:45 PM
Language: English

Faculty of Arts – Kinosál (room 429)

Détruire, dit-elle by Marguerite Duras
Who: Benedetta Zaccarello
What: Screening and Commentary
When: 0:45-3:00 AM
Language: French, with English subtitles; commentary in English

Images, Sciences and Politics – Prague 2016

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