Beyond the End of the World - Jonas Staal: Deep Future Propagandas

Propaganda manufactures consent and establishes normativity; it constructs reality and makes worlds. The propagandas of our present produce the futureless futures of dystopian normativity: the libertarian geoengineering of drowned worlds, Flat Earth dark-age anti-globes, and eco-fascist genocide. But these are not the only options available. From popular mass movements to new planetary unions and transnational party-forms, the art of counter-power organizing is struggling for the means of production of the future, to ensure meaningful survival in interspecies comradeship and a biosphere for all. At the intersection of political and artistic imagination, between organizing work and utopian activism, this presentation will sketch the morphologies of a deep future propaganda. Moderated by T. J. Demos (UCSC) and Martabel Wasserman (Stanford). Jonas Staal is a visual artist whose work deals with the relation between art, propaganda, and democracy. He is the founder of the artistic and political organ