A Cosmic Experience. Walter Benjamin in the Anthropocene

Description

Giovanni Tusa's talk focuses on the recurring motif, in Walter Benjamin’s writings, of considering the history of homo sapiens a fragment or infinitesimal part of cosmic duration, resonating with the characteristics of the era recently designated by some as the “Anthropocene”.
Tusa's intervention argues that Benjamin sensed the entropic drive of the Anthropocenic West, and thus postulated the burning need to explode all the anthropocentric variants that characterize traditional messianism but also historical materialism, staging a model of history in which all human action plunges into the mute timelessness of natural forces.

Period	5 Nov 2021
Event title	International Walter Benjamin Society Conference 2021 — Hoffnung/Hope: Hoffnung/Hope
Event type	Conference
Location	Berlin, GermanyShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International