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the Dates WS 2026/27
#1 Book Launch
Incomputable Earth, Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis
with
Antonia Majaca, Monika Halkort & guests
#2 Film Screening & Reading Session
Cultivating Otherwise
– Compost Day #24
curated by Ipek Hamzaoğlu, in cooperation with Klasse für Alle
#3 Poetry Workshop &
Festival
Poetic Intuition – Queer intersectional storytelling festival
with Ghostpoet (Dr. Obaro Ejimiwe), in cooperation
with Diversity Office STIR and Verein hint. wien
#4 Magazine Issue Launch
Arts of the Working Class
with
Maria Inés Plaza Lazo, hosted by Lia Kastiyo- Spinosa
#5 Lecture-Workshop
A Decolonial Classroom – Imaginative
Ways Forward
with Derek Roberts / AEWTASS, hosted by Nicole Miltner
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#1 Book LaunchIncomputable Earth, Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesiswith Antonia Majaca, Monika Halkort & guests
15 October 2026
18:00 – 20:00
VZA7,
3. OG, FLUX I
The event will be held in English
Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene
Hypothesis challenges the dominant narrative that positions technological solutions as the primary response to ecological
crisis. This open access collection argues that climate breakdown represents an irreducibly incomputable problem that cannot
be resolved through algorithmic optimization or cybernetic planetary management. Radically interrogating the political epistemology
underlying the Anthropocene hypothesis against the backdrop of new regimes of algorithmic classification and prediction, this
volume addresses the crucial need to rethink the meaning and inter-relationality of “human,” “nature,” and “technology.” Drawing
on feminist science studies, decolonial epistemologies, and historical materialist analysis, the contributors examine how
computational frameworks transform Earth’s complex relationships into extractable data, perpetuating the very logics that
created planetary crisis.
Antonia Majaca is a Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy
and Cultural Heritage at Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, where her research within the ERC-funded HealthXCross project
examines microbiome technoscience through decolonial feminist and historical materialist analysis
Monika
Halkort is an assistant professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her current research focuses on political
ecologies of transformation, emphasizing the material entanglements of extractivism, circularity and just transition discourses
in post-mining societies.
#2 Film Screening & Reading SessionCultivating Otherwise
– Compost Day #24
curated by Ipek Hamzaoğlu, in cooperation with Klasse für Alle
13 November 2026
18:00
– 20:00
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Studio Klasse für Alle
Heiligenkreuzerhof
1010 Vienna
Entrance
Schönlaterngasse 5 or Grashofgasse 3
Stairs 8 / Ground level
The event will be held
in English
Long understood as a condensed image of society, the garden has served as a testing ground for how societies
imagine their relationship to land, labor, and life itself. It is a place where ideas of care, control, belonging, and coexistence
are negotiated on an intimate scale. More than a site of leisure or beauty, the garden reveals how humans and the earth shape,
organize, and contest their relationship. Once imagined as an enclosed paradise or a symbol of harmony, it later became a
marker of power, ownership, and political order. Today, in the present moment of ecological urgency, the garden re-emerges
as a space that demands critical attention rather than nostalgia.
The films in this program approach gardening
as a situated, embodied practice rather than a romantic ideal. Gardens emerge as spaces of survival, adaptation, and reconfiguration,
where marginalized, postcolonial, and queer communities cultivate not only plants but alternative ways of living together.
Knowledge passes between people through shared work, observation, and repeated gestures. The pace of this work allows for
attention to the soil, the body, and what previous generations have learned. Yet care does not place the garden outside conflict.
These films consider the garden not as a finished form, but as an ongoing process: a site where care and struggle intersect,
where memory is tended, and where new social imaginaries take root. These imaginaries are fragile, provisional, yet insistently
alive.
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