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October 2019 to September 2025
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Oktober 2019 bis September 2025
Series of lectures
Series of lectures "Shaping the future"
of the MWK doctoral programme of the same name in co-operation with the academic centre "Genealogy of the Present"
The digital transformation is fuelling utopias and dystopias. For some, it represents a decisive evolutionary step on the path to emancipating people from their natural shackles. For others, it is hollowing out entire cultures, destroying industries, the democratic public sphere and privacy and turning millions of people into media addicts. Such euphoric and sceptical expectations of the future are condensed in various social and cultural areas - literature, science, politics, popular culture, etc. - into sensual and sensuous figures of a digital future that already determine action in the here and now. Against this background, the series of lectures deals with topics such as digital humanities and digital capitalism, develops sociological perspectives on ideas of the future and reflects on the current discourse on digitalisation from the perspective of philosophical criticism.
Lectures
The lectures take place online on Thursdays at 6.15 pm.
Access to the video conference (Cisco Webex) can then be found here on this page.
Sybille Krämer
What does 'digitalisation' mean - and what do the digital humanities do? - With a sideways glance at the beginnings and futures of digitalisation
Institution: Freie Universität Berlin & Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Date of the lecture: 20.05.2021
More information about the person: sybillekraemer.de/
Philipp Staab
The future of digital capitalism - imaginations, actors, conflicts
Institution: Humboldt University of Berlin
Date of the lecture: 10.06.2021
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Lisa Suckert
Understanding the future as a social fact. Sociological perspectives on expectations, hopes and ideas about the future.
Institute: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Date of the lecture: 24.06.2021
More information about the person: www.mpifg.de/forschung/wissdetails_de.asp?MitarbID=757
Daniel Martin Feige
Loss of the future. Critical comments on the discourse on digitalisation
Institution: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
Date of the lecture: 08.07.2021
more information about the person: www.abk-stuttgart.de/personen/daniel-martin-feige.html
