lecture

JOANNA ZYLINSKA
PROFESSOR OF NEW MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
WWW.JOANNAZYLINSKA.NET
LIFE, DEATH AND EXTINCTION (or can we devise a minimal ethics for the whole universe, while
there’s still time?)
“making the geologic now” jamie kruse and elizabeth ellsworth—> making the geological turn
the geologic — inspiration on the current
thinking in a cosmic time, beyond history
as a metaphoric andd a model
The anthropocene project “GRAIN VAPOR RAY” textures of the anthropocene
cosmic dust and human induced pollution —> changes in the atmosphere —> the anthropocene -
the age of man

“Art in the anthropocene” - open humanities press (free, open access ebook), 2015

“Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene “ Joanna Zylinska

how artists , philosophers, creators are dealing with the anthropocene

-“bio mediaciones” , festival of new media art and video, mejico, 2013 . thinking about life and
mediation, art forms.

-“iEarth” offers a vision of natural spaces, children diorama base

I/eye

photographers:
-andreas gursky
-ed burtinsky

iNature
Kino-eye

Topia daedala
manufactured landscapes
ETHICS not about morality, its rather about posing questions about values, questioning
preimposed values
open up those values

stephen Emmott - 10 billion

humans have become the bigger threat to life on earth

adorno - minima moralia (40s)

POST-MASCULINIST RATIONALITY
LEGO SEX

BIOETHICS IN THE AGE OF NEW MEDIA - JOANNA ZYLINSKA

CRITICAL VITALISM
anticontemporary art festival in Finland

IRREVERSIBLE CHANGES

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development of yourself as a human comes from the touch of other humans, language
you are called in, response and responsibility (Emmanuel Levinas , historical singularity of the
human)
being touched by sth
temporary stabilisations (temporary stable notions)
deleuze and guattari - cinema 1 and 2
anti oedipus
LEVINAS “ethics as first philosophy”
“.. ethics of cultural philosophy”