‘The Phoenix complex’ as a psychic and (trans)cultural structure to imagine the figure of nature
February 15, 2:30 pm, room SE0, Colégio Almada Negreiros, UNL
The phoenix complex: we are all suffering from it, individually and collectively. It is in us, having become entrenched in minds and bodies over millennia, while we are trapped in it, our practices and infrastructures servicing its many units and component parts. Even more so, the fate of the livable world well beyond the human sphere is hanging in the balance on account of this cross-cultural and transhistorical, in equal measure psychological and political, religious and philosophical, complex.
To learn more and participate in this discussion, register by February 11, via email icnova@fcsh.unl.pt. Admission is free, subject to room capacity. The session will be in Portuguese .
Michael Marder is IKERBASQUE Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. His writings span the fields of ecological theory, phenomenology, and political thought. He is the author of numerous scientific articles and eighteen monographs, including Plant-Thinking (2013); Phenomena—Critique—Logos (2014); The Philosopher’s Plant (2014); Dust (2016), Energy Dreams (2017), Heidegger (2018), Political Categories (2019), Pyropolitics (2015, 2020); Dump Philosophy (2020); Hegel’s Energy (2021); and Green Mass (2021) among others. For more information, consult his website michaelmarder.org .
