Changing Concepts of the Future and the ‘Ethics of Repair’

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• Prof. Aleida Assmann (Professor of English Literature and General Literary Studies at the University of Konstanz)
• Friday 28 February 2025, 18:00-19:00
• Frankopan Hall, West Court, Jesus College, Cambridge, CB5 8BQ.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Raphael Henkes.

The event is free but registration is required. To register for a ticket to attend in-person or online visit: https://www.heritage.arch.cam.ac.uk/events/annual-

Over the last decades, the Western concept of ‘future’ has changed radically. The lecture will focus on this change in the larger framework of “the decline of the time regime of modernity”. As sociologist Andreas Reckwitz has just argued in a recent study, the decline of the 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 has also opened up the space for alternative forms of imagining the future and new perspectives for the politics of remembering, forgetting and dealing 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 modern architecture.

This talk is part of the Changing Concepts of the Future and the ‘Ethics of Repair’ series.

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