Announcement: 21.05.2025 Lecture of Juliane Rebentisch: Die unheimliche Präsenz des Abwesenden. Trauer und Melancholie im Anthropozän

5 May 2025

One way in which people today realize their relationship to nonhuman beings is through the experience of their absence. In the wake of the sixth mass extinction of species, the uncanny feeling that »there is nothing where there should be something« (Mark Fisher) points to a loss that has yet to be comprehended as such. In this context, cultivating a sensibility to the »ghosts of the Anthropocene« promises a confrontation with the reality of this loss. The lecture examines the realist turn of the motif of Heimsuchung (haunted landscapes) in eco-critical discourse and discusses its consequences for a politics of mourning.

Juliane Rebentisch is Professor of Philosophy at the HFBK Hamburg since 2024.

Organization: Caroline Adler

Time: Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 7:00 pm
Venue: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354 Hamburg

Please register until May 15, 2025: caroline.adler"AT"uni-hamburg.de

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