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Vineri, 15 decembrie 2023, ora 18:00

Biblioteca Universității "Lucian Blaga'' din Sibiu/ Str. Lucian Blaga, nr. 2A

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tranzit. ro/Cluj în parteneriat cu UBB Cluj-Napoca și Biblioteca Universității „Lucian Blaga” din Sibiu vă invită la o prelegere și discuție în cadrul proiectului „Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis” pe tema policrizei din anii 1970-1980 cu titlul

„Varieties of Polycrisis: Escalations, Doomsdays and Historical History from the Long 1970s to Today”.

A patra întâlnire RSS are loc la Sibiu.

Invitatul nostru este profesorul și cercetătorul CORNEL BAN, de la Copenhagen Business School.
Podcastul seriei RSS se poate găsi aici.

Întâlnirea va avea loc în limba engleză și va fi moderată de Ștefan Baghiu.

„In the 1970s French complexity theorist Edgar Morin identified a new kind of global challenge: threads of mutually reinforcing, unpredictable, and exponentially escalating crises, each with their own temporality, were converging on both sides of the Cold War divide. With a new Cold War now gaining momentum, the sense of ‘polycrisis’ has returned with a vengeance, prompting polymath intellectual Adam Tooze to revive the term for the current moment. Nevertheless, Tooze’s account leaves some nagging questions unaddressed: How conceptually distinctive is today’s polycrisis from that of the 1970s? Is our polycrisis simply different in terms of severity or is it a structurally distinct historical situation? Can we draw any lessons from the denouement of the dramas of the 1970s and 1980s? And most importantly: is our treatment of this situation as anomalous animated by the unrealistic fantasy of a return to the comforts of the 1990s and 2000’s, even as the liberal western Great Moderation was both unreplicable and replete with contradictions, resting as it did on the deployment of economics (and Wall Street) to pacify politics using the peace dividend bestowed by the end of the Soviet challenge?”.