The World We Need
The Barcelona Debate 2018
In this year’s Barcelona Debate, four eminent thinkers will discuss how to think about and inhabit the future world. From their different traditions of critical thought Vandana Shiva, George Monbiot, McKenzie Wark, and Donna Haraway contemplate what kind of world we need.
Donna Haraway
A conversation with Marta Segarra
The biologist and philosopher of science Donna Haraway talks with the Professor Marta Segarra on the occasion of the essay Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (DUP, 2016), in which Haraway proposes new ways of reconfiguring the relations of humans with the earth and all its inhabitants.
McKenzie Wark
The Drunken Driver: Thoughts on a Waning Civilisation
McKenzie Wark, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, discuss the role of climate change in the present Anthropocene Era. Wark points out that perhaps this is not as rational a world as its owners would like us to think. What if the corporate-robotic-information complex that is seeking power o...
George Monbiot
Interview. Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life
George Monbiot, journalist and essayist specialising in the environment, argues that damaged ecosystems must be freed from human intervention so that the flora and fauna can develop freely and recover the natural ecological processes of the wild.
Vandana Shiva
Seeding Freedom: Humanity at an Evolutionary Crossroads
Vandana Shiva, activist and ecofeminist thinker talks about the role humanity must accept in a future conditioned by the ecological, economic, political and social effects of the present climate crisis. Vandana Shiva argues that today’s climate crisis faces humanity with a serious situation ...