Symposium: CRISIS, DYING, APOCALYPSE ‑ Subjectivity, Progress and Ecology in the light of the Anthropocene
This digital symposium is presented in cooperation between Mid Sweden University, Stockholm University and Linköping University, within the Seed Box Project, a transdisciplinary program in Environmental Humanities.
That the technological development and the economic growth was unsustainable is not really breaking news. And yet there is something dazed over the crisis awareness that has emerged lately. It is often pointed out that “apocalypse” means revelation. Is it perhaps a new understanding of death that is revealed by climate change and the pandemic?
The symposium will provide an opportunity to reflect on the three concepts in the title, but also on responsibility, sorrow, history, future and different aesthetic reactions to the crises of our time.