Input / Talk
Tatjana Schneider reads #98 of the Architecture Foundation's Bedtime Stories
Architecture Foundation / Instagram Live
When many books published as recently as earlier this year—say January or even February 2020—might already seem to be from a different age and time, In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming of Barbarism by Isabelle Stengers (Open Humanities Press, 2015) continues to exist in the present like almost no other. When Stengers talks about the book as an "intervention" she refers to the power of thoughts and ideas to disrupt—even for the briefest of moments—the flow of a conversation or discussion by inserting something that might not belong; creating, as she says: a short freezing moment. In those moments, questions emerge: about our climate, our planet, resistance against dominant or hegemonic modes of making, but also about possible action in the context of change. For the Architecture Foundation's Bedtime Stories, Tatjana read Chapter 1: In Between Two Histories.