- Speaker
- Date
- Wednesday 7 Nov 2018, 16:00 - 17:30
- Type
- Seminar
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- 1.31
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
Development research Seminar by Stephen Reyna an Associate at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology and the Co-Editor and Founder of the journal Anthropological Theory.
Background
This talk is an exercise in global anthropology in order to have some idea of what the Frohe Zukunft might be. Specifically, it analyzes two trends –tracks if you will- along which the world is currently travelling to its Frohe Zukunft. One track is that of climate change.
The other track is that militarization of competing imperial social forms. It is claimed that the telos of these tracks is set by intensifying and coalescing contradictions, that the tracks connect with each other, and in so doing accelerate each other’s’ directionality. It is further claimed that it looks like the phrase Frohe Zukunft will only be used in the future in irony.
About the speaker
Stephen Reyna is an Associate at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology and the Co-Editor and Founder of the journal Anthropological Theory. He is interested in questions of political economy, especially as they pertain to war.
Recent publications include: STARRY NIGHTS: ESSAYS IN CRITICAL STRUCTURAL REALISM (2017) and DEADLY CONTRADICTIONS: THE NEW AMERICAN EMPIRE AND ITS GLOBAL WARRING (2016).