DESIGN, FAILURE AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF RISK
A Talk by Arjun Appadurai, followed by a conversation with Jonas Tinius
and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
10 January 2017, 7pm
SAVVY Contemporary, Plantagenstraße 31, 13347 Berlin-Wedding
What is the role of promises and trust in a postfactual age? How are
emerging technologies tied up to the political and economic crises of
the last years? What can we learn from the role of risk-taking and
failure for our political futures - and what's language got to do with
it all?
Professor Arjun Appadurai, one of the world's leading theorists of
globalisation and cultural economies, will be discussing crises,
economies, and political language with S A V V Y Contemporary's director
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and anthropologist Jonas Tinius (HU
Berlin). Appadurai is author of seminal texts, including Modernity At
Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996), editor of The Social
Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (1986), and has been
at the forefront of theorizing the relation between cultural creativity,
global economies, and political emergence.
This lecture will explore the financial crises of the last few decades
in the advanced economies and beyond to look at how failure is part of
the logic of design and risk in the world of emerging technologies in
finance and beyond. This presentation is part of an ongoing research
project on failure, which explores how failure is a globally variable
and circulating idea which can reveal far more than the study of
success.
Arjun Appadurai is the Goddard Professor in Media, Culture and
Communication at New York University, where he is also Senior Fellow at
the Institute for Public Knowledge. He was previously Senior Advisor for
Global Initiatives at The New School in New York City, where he also
held a Distinguished Professorship as the John Dewey Distinguished
Professor in the Social Sciences. Professor Appadurai was born and
educated in Bombay. He earned his B.A. from Brandeis University in 1967,
and his M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1976) from The Committee on Social
Thought at the University of Chicago. Currently, he is visiting
Professor at the Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin. Among Appadurai's latest books are: The Future as a Cultural
Fact: Essays on the Global Condition (Verso, 2013) and Banking on Words:
The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance (University of
Chicago Press, 2015). For more information, visit arjunappadurai.org [1]
Jonas Tinius (PhD) is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for
Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), co-funded by
the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and based at the Department of
European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. His
research focuses on contemporary art in Berlin, specifically looking at
negotiations of alterity and otherness through post-colonial and other
curatorial strategies. He is editor of Anthropology, Theatre, and
Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance (Palgrave,
2015, with Alex Flynn) and convenor of the Anthropology of Art_ Network
of the _European Association of Social Anthropologists (with Roger
Sansi, Goldsmiths). For further information, visit jonastinius.com [2]
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (PhD) is an independent art curator and
biotechnologist. He completed his doctorate in medical biotechnology at
the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and a post-doctorate in
Biophysics in Montpellier. He is the founder and art director of the art
space S A V V Y Contemporary Berlin, where he has directed and curated
exhibits with more than 30 artists from five continents. He has worked
as curator, art director and consultant for several international
exhibition projects and festivals in Germany, France, England and
Cameroon, and has published more than 15 exhibition catalogues. He is
curator-at-large for documenta 14 and he has cooperated, among others
with the Tensta Konsthal Sweden, Goethe-Institut, Institut für
Auslandsbeziehung (ifa), Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Arsenal Institut
für Film und Videokunst e.V. Berlin.
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DR JONAS TINIUS
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMaH)
Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/personen/tinius [3]
Recent publications:
- Article: 'Rehearsing Detachment: Refugee Theatre and Dialectical
Fiction [4]' (2016)
- Special issue: 'Micro-utopias: anthropological perspectives on art,
relationality, and creativity' [5] (2016)
Links:
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[1]
http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Farjunappadurai.org%2F&h=nAQFifPFg&enc=AZMgZmW0mbjAjIR4za4o3DNi8KvQkgXaBMEICk-RnAjP1E-En36oaQnKVeQF2dRI8E8&s=1
[2] http://jonastinius.com/
[3] https://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/personen/tinius
[4] https://cadernosaa.revues.org/1022
[5] https://cadernosaa.revues.org/999
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