Lisa Doeland teaches us extinction. In her book Apocalypsophia. About recycling, green growth and other dangerous fantasies she philosophizes about the end of the world as we know it. That world no longer exists, she writes. It comes down to living as well as possible in the debris and dying out as a species as well as possible.
Philosopher Lisa Doeland (1982) has a soft spot for the uncanny, the monstrous and the ghostly. In her lectures at Radboud University and the UvA, she encourages students to think about issues such as the apocalypse and the waste that continues to haunt us like ghosts, such as the plastic in the ocean and the microplastics in our bodies. ‘For example, I try to teach my students that thinking in terms of recycling is dangerous, because then you have the feeling that something has been solved and you dare to consume even more, in which way you actually maintain the system.’
Half of her students can’t follow her thinking and some are in shock after she makes them watch the documentary How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change from 2016, because it contains ‘tipping points’ that are long in the past. She wil to sand. She wants to get rid of the idea that the future can be saved with green growth, the energy transition, a…
2023-06-14 21:16:11
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