GLOBART Academy 2014 / (UN)sichtbar – Erklärungsmuster, um die Welt heute zu verstehen ((In)visible – Explanatory Patterns for Understanding Today's World)

A THING IS AND IS NOT.
THE SAME THING IS AND
AT THE SAME TIME IS NOT.
THE THING I SEE
REMAINS AT THE SAME TIME
INVISIBLE.
IT CAN NEVER BE DETERMINED
IN ITS ENTIRETY.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

(In)visible – what the future brings, the invisible future
Do we no longer understand the world – or are the explanatory patterns with which we thought we understood it simply no longer sufficient?
The world has become very complex. Information about the most distant events, which we call up in global simultaneity on simple smartphones, cannot compensate for the loss of control we experience.

The dynamics of an unbounded financial economy, re-nationalisation and de-secularisation as triggers of geopolitical uncertainty, technological revolutions with all their light and dark sides: we know countless details from all these fields of the new confusion, but the overall picture remains invisible.

As a studio of the future, the GLOBART Academy invited visionaries and thought leaders such as Shirin Neshat, Joachim Bauer, Hartmut Rosa, Claudia Kessler and Peter Sloterdijk to address this theme.

ISBN: 978-3-11-041574-2

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