Kilian Jörg

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Kilian Jörg works both artistically and philosophically on the topic of ecological catastrophe and how its transformative forces can best be imagined and deployed. Previous publications have been on club culture, the political backlash from an ecological perspective, cultivating distance in catastrophic times and a speculative religion of waste. Their current research topics are the car as a metaphor for our toxic entanglements with modern lifestyles (released in book form as “Das Auto und die ökologische Katastrophe” in September 2024), the socio-psychological effects of living with ecocide and radical activist strategies of reclaiming land like the ZAD in France.

They are working with the Futurama.Lab at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and are affiliated to the SFB Affective Societies at the FU Berlin.

Their postdoc is within the Collaborative Research Center with the project Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Coexistence in Mobile Worlds.

Experience

  • –present
    Post-Doc Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin

Education

  • 2021 
    University of Vienna, PhD in Philosophy
  • 2017 
    University of Applied Arts Vienna, MA in Artistic Research
  • 2014 
    University of Vienna, BA in Philosophy

Publications

  • 2024
    Ecological Reasonings, Bloomsbury Press
  • 2024
    Das Auto und die ökologische Katastrophe, transcript
  • 2022
    Toxic Temple, De Gruyter
  • 2022
    Neue Vorsicht - Philosophie des Abstands im Zeitalter der Katastrophen, Edition Konturen
  • 2020
    Bachklash - Essays zur Resilienz der Moderne, Textem
  • 2018
    Die Clubmaschine, Textem

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