SARS-CoV-2 or the Encounter With Ourselves

“SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) is penetrating our world. It creates a planetary present, the faults and inequalities of which are all the more pronounced due to the catalytic action of the virus.” Bernd Scherer

Internationaler Literaturpreis 2020

The voices of many instead of a single work: In view of the precarious situation for many artists at this time, this year the prize will not go to just one book. It will be awarded to the authors and translators of all six shortlisted titles – with an announcement held live on the radio.

New Alphabet School #4 Caring

How can we together take care of the planet and its population in the era of COVID-19 and beyond? In a streamed program and five workshops, the fourth edition of the New Alphabet School surveys concepts of caring and reflects on their importance for shaping the present. The workshops will devote themselves to bio-privileges, care work in agriculture, oracle practices, autonomy and dependence, and the ecological footprint of the Internet.

Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne – The Original

In the 1920s, Aby Warburg created his Bilderatlas Mnemosyne which in the modern art and visual studies has taken on mythical status. The volume gathers the 63 plates – newly photographed from the original images, along with essays by Roberto Ohrt, Axel Heil, Bernd Scherer, Bill Sherman and Claudia Wedepohl. The HKW exhibition on Warburg’s Bilderatlas has been postponed to fall 2020.

River Memory

From floating casinos on the Mississippi to advancing industrialization along the river or the pushback [of/by] environmental initiatives: A podcast series gathers the memories of residents from St. Louis and East St. Louis and makes their stories, marked by the Anthropocene, audible.

Dictionary of Now

Democracy Lectures

The New Alphabet

The Anthropocene at HKW

New Alphabet School

How does language influence thought? How can we develop other forms of learning and acting? From the politics of translation to practices of weaving: Speakers and workshop participants from the New Alphabet School share their questions, observations and studies on solidary practices of knowledge production on the blog.

Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

The research platform Anthropocene Curriculum explores novel epistemic, aesthetic and educational challenges of the age of humankind. Currently the digital platform also serves as a research tool, discussion forum and public portal for the transdisciplinary research project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River.

Wörterbuch der Gegenwart

Ed. by Bernd Scherer, Olga von Schubert and Stefan Aue, 2019
What comes after universalism? The final volume of the 100 Years of Now Library uses key words such as Thing, Justice and Body to ask about ways to redesign the world linguistically and visually. With new and historical contributions by, among others, Philippe Descola, Nikita Dhawan, Liz Johnson Artur, Achille Mbembe, Sarah Sharma and Wole Soyinka.

Love and Ethnology

Ed. by Diedrich Diederichsen, Anselm Franke and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2019
From „Baroque“ to „Vodou“ to „The Gayification of the World “: The publication brings together essays, artistic text contributions and a glossary that explains Hubert Fichte's theoretical vocabulary. These are supplemented by statements from the project stations in Salvador da Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile, Dakar, New York and Lisbon, as well as extensive photo series depicting the artistic works from the exhibition at HKW.