Keynote Lecture "Imagineering & Co. Transformative Practices and Cultures of Change"
Prof. Jörg Metelmann at 09:30 on Wednesday, June 21
Keynote Lecture "Imagineering & Co. Transformative Practices and Cultures of Change" with Prof. Jörg Metelmann at 09:30 on Wednesday, June 21.
For many, the lever for the second "Great Transformation" is culture in which a "great mindshift" toward sustainability must prevail. The (political) everyday life, currently in debates about the heating law or the assessment of the actions of climate activists, shows the difficulties in this change. In my lecture I would like to present the three-part model that I have developed to address the problems of change in cultural studies over the last five years. A central role is played by the concept of the future, in which on the one hand the dominance of the economic paradigm is reflected, and on the other hand the energies of resistance for a "better tomorrow" and for the assertion of a space of possibility for path change can be found.
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Jörg Metelmann is an associate professor of Culture and Media Studies at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. In his most recent research, Jörg Metelmann focuses on the cultural dynamics of late modern capitalist societies, social transformation and the role of imagination. He has (co-)published and (co-)edited over 20 books, among which Imagineering: Wie Zukunft gemacht wird (2020, edited together with Harald Welzer), Transformative Management Education: The Role of the Humanities and Social Sciences (2018, together with Ulrike Landfester), Ressentimentalität: Die melodramatische Versuchung (2016), and Irritation of Life: The Subversive Melodrama of Michael Haneke, David Lynch and Lars von Trier (2013, together with Scott Loren). |
