Kilian Jörg
Watch the livestreamThe ecological crisis is not only a technical problem to optimise away: it is a crisis of a Western reason built on separation (subject from world, human from nature, clean from dirty) that makes ecocide feel normal.
The enclosures of land, of public space, of the more-than-human, that turned a shared world into private, extractable resource. The car and the car-shaped city are his signature illustration.
Rather than a clean 'nature' to protect, we live inside pollution and waste. A mature ecological politics starts by owning our toxic entanglements instead of denying them.
Reclaiming the commons means reclaiming ways of knowing: embodied, situated, more-than-human reasonings, freed from the monopoly of a single abstract Reason.
From theory to practice: diverting public space, imagining the car-free world, radical land reclamation. The commons as something re-composed in matter and habit.
Reclaiming the commons is ongoing entanglement and repair with a damaged world, including its trash and toxicity, not a return to a lost, pristine state.
The frame handed to the room: performative philosophy, collective experiment, the gathering itself as a practice of commoning.