Jan Völker – Ein Weltall des Kapitals. Die Überwindung der terrestrischen Zukunft

In the organizer's words:

As part of the three-part lecture series "Foreign Planet", philosopher Jan Völker takes a look at the renaissance of space travel under the auspices of privatization in December. Tourists are being transported into space, plans for mining on asteroids are being considered, new sites of humanity are being sought - this is how the colonization of space begins. This is accompanied by the creation of a new image of mankind, in which reality is supposed to be in perfect harmony with the imagination. It is an image from which the unconscious has been eliminated. This image of man not only seeks to overcome the limits of reason established by Kant, but also the image of the earth created by the Apollo missions, which showed it as man's environment and urged concern for the planet. In the eyes of capital, the earth thus proves to be nothing more than a place abandoned in the future, the starting point for a new human reality - left to the coming apocalypse. We will discuss these and other theses in conversation.