The Limits of Sustainability
Talk by Dr. Niklas Damiris. 20 November 2010, Montreal.
Co-sponsored by Topological Media Lab, Design and Computation Arts Department, and the David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Concordia University.
This wide-ranging lecture outlines a set of core and critical issues:
Sustainability as symptom rather than goal. Desire. Symbolic mediation + being part of the world. Nature-society divide. Materiality. Quantum entanglement. Foucault parrhesia and Socrates contra psychology (identity, personality, self). Limits of sustainability construed under an "economic” frame. Money as symbolic mediation. Productivity. Excess and generosity. Service, entanglement. Governmentality. Using materials in a dematerialized way.
For more extensive inquiry, contact: Niklaswild1000@gmail.com, or xinwei.sha@asu.edu