Samo Tomšič – Weltlose Freiheit

In the organizer's words:

Two technological achievements of the 20th century mark the destruction of the common world: the atomic bomb as an emblem of the impending apocalypse and the Soviet satellite Sputnik, which for the first time hinted at the separation of mankind from the earth. While in the first case the end of humanity is thematized through the devastation of the world, the second opens up a phantasm of boundless freedom. This idea shaped neoliberalism, whose hostility towards society lives on in today's libertarianism of the tech oligarchs, visible in plans for space colonization (Musk) or smart cities (Thiel). While war, crisis and resource exploitation escalate and the climate crisis is denied, part of the global elite aims to make the destruction of the common world a condition of absolute freedom. This makes it all the more urgent to ask how politics today can promote a new sense of community.