• Conférence
06.07.23 18h30

On the Ecological Class Struggle

The Role of Affects, Art, and Aesthetics

Nikolaj Schultz (PhD Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen)

Free, upon registration

@ luca - Luxembourg Center for Architecture
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How come we are constantly bombarded with information about the unfolding climatic catastrophe, but ecological mobilization is so limited? How come so many agree that climate change is the most relevant problem of our times, but Green parties around Europe all struggle to get over the electoral threshold?

In this presentation, Danish sociologist Nikolaj Schultz suggests that one way to understand that the political passions in no way are on par with the impending disaster, is that the ecologists have failed to engage seriously in the cultural struggle for ideas; a struggle that one cannot neglect when trying to accumulate political affects and mobilize people for action.

  • Free, upon registration
  • Language : English

This lecture has been organised by luca with the support of the Œuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlottewithin the framework of the exhibition ‘Luxembourg in Transition’.

Nikolaj Schultz

PhD Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

Nikolaj Schultz is a PhD fellow at the University of Copenhagen, where he is currently finishing his thesis on what he calls ‘geo-social classes’. Schultz was a long-term collaborator of the French philosopher Bruno Latour, with whom he authored the book 'On the Emergence of an Ecological Class' which has been translated into ten languages. Recently, Schultz published the book ‘Land Sickness’, which has been translated into six languages.

 

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