Convivialis Futuris

Year

2022

Category
Articles & Reviews, Conviviality, Gift/Money, Publications

Convivialis Futuris-A Reflection on 200 Years of Our Youngest Bodily Organ

Joint text by Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio, Susanne Bosch, Niamh DeLoughry, Angela Dreßler, Siri Frech, Christina Jacoby, Tellervo Kalleinen, Elke Krasny, Sahar Qawasami and Jeffrey Tan

In: Convivial Futures: Views from a Post-Growth Tomorrow
(edited by Frank Adloff & Alain Caillé)
Transcript Verlag, 2022

„A virus that globally appeared around late 2019–early 2020 (called coronavirus or Covid-19), tipped the long-predicted simmering peak of the industrial growth society, facing a social, economical, political, environmental and climate change. The shift came through collapse and turmoil, not through a disaster-free moment of designing our future. Everything long predicted happened very quickly from 2020 onwards, as we had reached various tipping points by then. It also led to a transformative change in our bodies and subsequently our minds.“