The Anthropocene Project

Our notion of nature is now out of date. Humanity forms nature. This is the core premise of the Anthropocene thesis, announcing a paradigm shift in the natural sciences as well as providing new models for culture, politics, and everyday life. In a two-year project, HKW is exploring the hypothesis’ manifold implications for the sciences and arts.

Narrating War

Videos, gallery and audio recordings of the theme days “Narrating War” in the media section

Forensis

How do mortal remains, DNA samples, and satellite images become forensic evidence? What role do imaging techniques and methods of representation play in the investigation of crimes or political acts of violence? How are objects made to speak?

The Architecture of Public Truth

Internationally renowned lawyers, activists and authors discuss how new types of forensic techniques alter the institutions of international justice and thus the fields of politics. With Baltasar Garzón, Luis Moreno Ocampo, Jonathan Liddell, Wolfgang Kaleck, Michael Sfard et.al.

Algeria after 1954

In a selection by film and culture scholar Ahmed Bedjaoui, president of the Algerian Film Fund, follows feature films and documentaries along Algerian cinema’s political and artistic lines of development.

Fiktion

In Cooperation
The international model project FIKTION seeks to further develop the opportunities arising from digitization for the heightened public awareness and dissemination of quality literature.

City - Religion - Capitalism

City, Religion, Capitalism – without these three structures, today’s Western societies cannot be comprehended. The filmmaker Alexander Kluge and the sociologist Richard Sennett (London/New York) trace decisive turning points in these three areas as they look back over the history of humanity.

Future Storytelling

Media Competition
Closing date for proposals:
April 30, 2014

The media competition FUTURE STORYTELLING challenges prospective journalists, media designers, directors, and media-savvy young adults to examine and explore the Anthropocene hypothesis in digital forms of narration.

The Whole Earth

California and the Disappearance of the Outside.

Available exclusively in and via the shop at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
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