The Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art Evening Public Lecture Series

Hosted by Spike Berlin

Yuk Hui "Cosmotechnics as Cosmopolitics"

In face of the Anthropocene, the recent ‘ontological turn’ in Anthropology which proposes a ‘politics of ontologies’ searching for a new configuration after the failure of modernity and globalization, can be seen as a pursuit of a cosmopolitics. Such politics of ontologies aims to address the nature and culture divide developed during the European modernity through the demonstration of a multiplicity of nature, or even a multinaturalism proposed by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. This talk will respond to and deviate from the above agenda by introducing what I call cosmotechnics, which aims to serve as a new departing point to reflect on the concept of technology and world history.