Today, people become aware of their relationships with non-human beings not least because they register their absence. The ghostly feeling that "there is nothing where there should be something" (Mark Fisher) points to a loss that has yet to be understood as such. The lecture explores the ecocritical sensibility for haunted landscapes - for the signs of past human and non-human life forms - and discusses their consequences for a politics of mourning.
Juliane Rebentisch is Professor of Philosophy at the HFBK Hamburg. She specializes in aesthetic theory - particularly with regard to contemporary art - as well as ethics and political philosophy.
The event takes place as part of the research focus "Art, Environment, Ecology" at the ZI and is organized as part of the project "Climate Summit Art. Art and Political Event, 1972-2022" co-financed by the DFG.
Venue: ZI, Griechensaal, Room 204-206, 2nd floor + online via Zoom
Participation is free of charge, registration is not required.
Further information and access to Zoom: https://www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2025/vortrag-juliane-rebentisch-die-gespenstische-praesenz-des-abwesenden-haunted-landscapes-im-anthropozaen