Bernd M. Scherer with Michael Taussig | Interview | The Anthropocene Project. An Opening

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http://www.hkw.de/anthropocene

HKW Talk on the Anthropocene
with
Michael Taussig, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York
and
Bernd M. Scherer, Director Haus der Kulturen der Welt

The Anthropocene Project. An Opening
Haus der Kulturen der Welt,
January 12, 2013

Michael Taussig (New York) teaches at cultural anthropology at Columbia University in New York. Subjects of his writing include violence, terror, the abolition of slavery, shamanism, mimesis and alterity, color, iconoclasm, Bataille, and Walter Benjamin's grave.

Dialogues, Keynotes, Island, Roundtables, Lecture Performances, Artistic Interventions, Research Forum
The Anthropocene Project. An Opening 10.01.2013 - 13.01.2013

'Nature as we know it is a concept that belongs to the past. No longer a force separate from and ambivalent to human activity, nature is neither an obstacle nor a harmonious other. Humanity forms nature. Humanity finds itself embedded within the recent geological record.' This is the core premise of the Anthropocene thesis, announcing a paradigm shift in the natural sciences as well as providing new models for culture, politics, and everyday life.

Over the next two years, the HKW -- in cooperation with the Max-Planck-Society, Deutsches Museum, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam -- will facilitate an exploration of this hypothesis' manifold implications for research, science, and art