Autorzy:
Dr. Andrzej Marzec – philosopher, film critic, and assistant professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Faculty of Philosophy). He also teaches at SWPS University (Ecopsychology, Ecotherapy and Social Change) and at the University of the Arts in Poznań. His research interests focus on speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, environmental humanities, dark ecology, and contemporary alternative cinema.
When Martin Heidegger asked “What is called thinking?”, he claimed that the most problematic aspect is that we still do not think. Taking his provocative statement as a starting point, we might say that too often, in seeking answers to contemporary problems, we reach back to the archives of human thought.
Yet thinking is not a nostalgic return to the safety of the past—it is a risky undertaking of creating the reality (world-making), a creative act that concerns above all the future, the not-yet-thought. In this lecture, I will attempt to answer the question: what does it mean to think today? To explore this, we will draw on two of the most significant currents in contemporary philosophy: new materialisms and speculative realism.
