We invite you to the next event in the Mimo obraz series, which will be a lecture titled Welcome to the Anthropocene.

The lecture explores whether the Anthropocene is truly a new epoch of humanity, when it was supposed to begin, and whether it might already be drawing to a close. We will explore the Anthropocene not only as a geological concept but also as a way of seeing the world and an (old) new perspective that disrupts traditional dualisms between nature and culture, science and art, and reason and emotion.

And last but not least, we will reflect together on whether the Anthropocene also signifies a specific mindset and sensibility —and whether, therefore, we can understand it as an epoch emerging from the experience of vulnerability and radical uncertainty, which compels us to seek new answers even to questions we had until recently considered resolved.

Eliška Fulínová is a philosopher based in Prague at the Center for Theoretical Studies of Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences, where she is involved in a number of interdisciplinary projects. Her work focuses on ancient thought, contemporary phenomenology, and, in recent years, the concept of the Anthropocene. This topic is also the focus of the publication Anthropocenity: A Guide to the World of the Anthropocene (Academia 2024), which she edited together with her colleague Anna Kvíčalová.