BORN TO BE WILD/MILDThe Aesthetics and Ethics of Intense Living
We may not know what life to live, but we are quite sure of how we want to live it: intensely. To be truly ‘alive’, we keep telling ourselves, is to live life to the fullest—to love passionately, to lust unashamedly, to dance until your knees give out, and to feel the squeaky moistness of grass under your feet. But also, to feel every heartbreak, to suffer like a true romantic, to fail miserably, and to cry your eyes out. Mediocrity is the ultimate sin. Nobody wants to be lukewarm.
The world is in flux, and everything is becoming. Our identities are fluid, our values shifting, our ideals nonexistent. The content of life is beside the point. The form is what we crave. Intensity is the measure of that form. The form of contemporary life.
But do all the exotic flavours, the sexual kinks, the extreme sports, and the recreational drugs of our times manage to deliver and sustain that intensity? Does such intensity live up to its promise?
Join us in an intense session of Philosophy for Plebs to discuss the aesthetics and ethics of intensity.
To read
The “Introduction” and Chapter Five “An ethical ideal” of Tristan Garcia’s The Life Intense:
A Modern Obsession (2016).
The “Introduction” of Hartmut Rosa’s Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity (2013).
To watch (optional–it’s a meme…)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO6vnkTEjcl/?hl=en
Link to Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1dYFRMexww4pvHFMJ9Tb7i-yYfbVsWWl6
Event Venue
Møllegade 10, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark, Møllegade 10, 2200 København N, Danmark, Copenhagen , Denmark
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