This workshop will focus on literary and cinematic imagination to address with interdisciplinary tools - ethics and robot ethics, philosophy, ecology, social and political theory, film studies, literary studies - issues related to the diagnosis of the current crisis of capitalist society and its possible transformations.

How and why are utopian and dystopian elements interwoven?

How are current myths (apocalyptic, salvationist, etc.) interpreted and constructed through literature, and what is the role of scientific narratives?

How are the utopian futures of capitalist/post-capitalist society represented in these kinds of narratives?

Are new forms of nihilism emerging today, and how are they related to new forms of religiosity?

This activity is free and open to the general public. You can find the complete program and registration instructions following this link. 

• COORDINATION

Camil Ungureanu: (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Research Group of the Haas Library
& Institut de Cultura)

Daniel Gamper: (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Katarzyna Paszkiewicz: (Universitat de les Illes Balears, ADHUC – Center for
Research Theory, Gender, Sexuality)

• SPEAKERS

Pol Capdevilla, Miguel Bestegui, Lidia María Cuadrado Payeras, Ana Garrido González, Pablo Gómez Muñoz, Helena González Fernández, Mónica Martín, Sara Martín Alegre, Fernando Ángel Moreno, Katarzyna Moszczyńska-Dürst, Mathias Thaler, Lars Tønder, Carme Torras Genís, Christos Zografos, Marc Sanjaume, Toni Llorente, José L. Martí i Mihaela Mihai.