To browse Academia. How will our world look like after corona? We asked scientists, writers, artists and journalists their visionary answers, ideas, strategies and arguments. Brave New World Conference challenged scientists, artists, writers and philosophers from all over the world to answer a question most people are not only wondering about but, after quite some months of uncertainties, even long for - How will our world look like after corona.
We bundled their visionary answers, ideas, strategies and arguments in Brave New Human, Reflections on the Invisible to give you an insight in a possible future post-corona world. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, How does biomedicine organise and maintain communities? How do such communities relate to each other and other forms of collective life? And how does an inquiry into biosocialities help us better understand global phenomena in the 21st century?
This MA course addresses these questions through the example of the Covid pandemic. Possible topics include the role of scientific expertise, discourses centred around national statistics, the politics of prioritisation within a given population, the competition between pharmaceutical companies to develop a vaccine, anti-lockdown protests, and the transformation of public life especially in urban settings.
Hentschker's aim in conceiving "In the Time of Corona" has been to offer a platform for global voices to discuss the current challenges and sorrows, as well as hope for what he calls the new Weltzustandthe state of the world.
The selections reproduced here, representing thirty artists and thinkers from twenty countries, feature edited excerpts from the conversations in April, May, and June The Webinar took place on Tuesday, 21 July The title of my lecture was "Corona Pandemic the evil and the Hope for a resurgent future". I possess the video of the whole Webinar.
