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Political Ecology Reading Group | Oficina de Ecologia e Sociedade (2024)
April: The future is ancestral - dialogue on cosmopolitics in Krenak's work
April 5, 2024, 11h00
Botanical Garden
In A vida não é útil (Life is not useful), a set of reflections triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, Ailton Krenak, indigenous philosopher, questions the idea of "civilization" and the consequences of unbridled consumerism in the reproduction of life. His language is objective, lucid and profound, and an invitation for reflection about the power of ancestrality. This session aims to be an open dialogue on the possible paths of a cosmopolitics.
Readings: A vida não é útil and Ideas to postpone the end of the world, by Ailton Krenak
Coordinators: Teresa Meira and Hestia Delibas
This event is part of the Political Ecology Reading Group series 2024 of the Oficina de Ecologia e Sociedade (CES). If you wish to receive a copy of the papers, please register here
