At the Summaery 2025 – Critical Animism
The research project “Animism/Machinism” provides insights into the international and transdisciplinary conference “Planet Uncanny: Redistributing Subjectivities across Technology, Nature, and Society,” which will take place from December 3 to 5, 2025, at the Bauhaus Museum Weimar.
The research project “Animism/Machinism” provides insights into the international and transdisciplinary conference “Planet Uncanny: Redistributing Subjectivities across Technology, Nature, and Society,” which will take place from December 3 to 5, 2025, at the Bauhaus Museum Weimar. The starting point for the conference is the observation that a sense of the uncanny is increasingly emerging in our dealings with technology, our encounters with nature, and, beyond that, in our examination of the economic and ecological conditions of our existence. Artificial intelligence, for example, can cause disturbing irritation through its largely independent generation of texts and images. Similar impressions arise from studies on the cognitive and social abilities of plants and animals. Regardless of this, there is talk today of a “fusion of capitalism and animism” as well as – with regard to the massive destruction of ecosystems – of the “ecological uncanny.”
Mit: Jenny Brockmann, Henning Schmidgen, Mathias Schönher, Aleksandra Selivanova
Photo credits: Jenny Brockmann: 'On Orientation,' 2025. Aluminum, steel.
© Hans-Georg Gaul