Spekulative Fiktionen und utopische Zukünfte - «Hyphen» (Roman) - Meier (Utopieautorin) trifft Neupert (Utopieforscher)

The novel "Hyphen" by Luise Meier was published in 2024. We find ourselves in the near future: when a week-long power outage occurs worldwide for the first time in 2025, panic does not break out, contrary to expectations. Instead, people begin to search for other ways of relating to each other out of necessity. Will a crisis (literary) become a Kairós (Neupert-Doppler 2019)? Does the MRX machine (Meier 2018) get going? Will Hyphen (Meier 2024) succeed in concretizing the utopian (Neupert-Doppler 2015) for our time? How will our destructive present be remembered by us, as those who have been affected by it, from a utopian future? Meier and Neupert will talk about this together this evening.

Luise Meier (born 1985) from East Berlin works as a freelance author, theater maker and service worker. "Hyphen" (2024) is her second novel, soon to be followed by the book Proletkult vs. neoliberal Denkpanzer, previously published by her MRX Maschine (2018).

Alexander Neupert (born 1981) from Lingen (Ems) works as a philosopher in the DFG project "Dialectics of the Pandemic" in Karlsruhe. He has published books on the necessity of organization (2021), the figure of historical opportunity (2019) and the possibility of utopia (2015).

Free admission.

An event in the series "Utopisches Erinnern" in cooperation with Hellen Panke.