Vortrag: Das Ende ist nah … schon wieder. Die Simpsons als Internet-Orakel

In the organizer's words:

Thursday, July 04, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Studio B, City and State Library, Max-von-der-Grün-Platz 1-3
Free admission
No registration required

Lecture: The end is near ... again. The Simpsons as an internet oracle

With Dr. Felix Hüttemann

Supporting program of the exhibition "The Simpsons" at schauraum: comic + cartoon

The lecture revolves around the idea, rampant on social media platforms such as Reddit, in memes and other variants, that the Simpsons predict the future in convoluted ways.

How the Simpsons, or rather the creators behind "The Simpsons", do this is a constant source of speculation and is used by many a filter bubble - including some extremely politically questionable ones - as an ideological tool.

What "predictions" are involved? Which theories revolve around which Simpsons scenes in various internet circles? What conclusions can be drawn from them?

Felix Hüttemann, Dr. phil., is a postdoctoral researcher in the DFG project: "Institutions of the Computer" at the Chair of Television and Digital Media at the University of Paderborn. Previously, he was a post-doc and research assistant at the Chair of "Virtual Humanities" at the Institute of Media Studies and a post-doc and research assistant at the DFG Research Training Group "The Documentary. Excess and Withdrawal" at the Ruhr University Bochum. The graduate Germanist and philosopher was a fellow of the Mercator Research Group "Spaces of Anthropological Knowledge" in the working group "Media and Anthropological Knowledge". His research focuses on: Culinary, sensory and AI. Cultural and media history of dandyism, Silicon Valley ideology, philosophy of technology and media, Anthropocene theory and accelerationism.

- The event will take place right next door in Studio B of the Dortmund City and State Library -