It was lovely to be invited to Switzerland this month, as part of the Villars Anticipation Workshop on Planetarised Humanity hosted by GESDA – the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator.
The workshop focused on the transdisciplinary challenges of ‘planetarised humanity’ and we discussed – among many other things – care, evolutionary economics, transgressive science, collapsology, what it might mean to be a progressive luddite, horizons of possibility, biocapital, utopia, Prometheus, transformative education, how the humanities are good for our health, planet as platform, radical immanence, posthuman convergence and more.
The format was great – a series of lightning talks with plenty of time for discussion (and enjoying views of the Alps). I talked about the instrumentalisation of education and the need for utopia.
Thanks so much to the organisers Martin Müller, Manuel Gustavo Isaac and Sophie Gilbert, and to everyone who was part of this fabulous conversation.