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