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SUMMARY:Changing Concepts of the Future and the ‘Ethics of Repair’  - 
 Prof. Aleida Assmann (Professor of English Literature and General Literary
  Studies at the University of Konstanz)
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CONTACT:Raphael Henkes
DESCRIPTION:Over the last decades\, the Western concept of ‘future’ ha
 s changed radically. The lecture will focus on this change in the larger f
 ramework of “the decline of the time regime of modernity”. As sociolog
 ist Andreas Reckwitz has just argued in a recent study\, the decline of th
 e promise of continuous progress is responsible for a wide-spread “sense
  of loss” in middle-class society. But this is not the whole story. It h
 as also opened up the space for alternative forms of imagining the future 
 and new perspectives for the politics of remembering\, forgetting and deal
 ing with the past. One of them is an “ethics of repair” that is being 
 proposed as a new framework for dealing with heritage in the context of mo
 dern architecture.
LOCATION:Frankopan Hall\, West Court\, Jesus College\, Cambridge\, CB5 8BQ
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