CONFLICT

Robert Misik in conversation with Armen Avanessian

CONFLICT
The urgency of solving tomorrow's problems today

»One of the most important voices of left-wing theory«
Philosophy magazine

Our age is characterised by completely new confrontations that threaten the social order and overwhelm us. There is hardly an area that is not full of conflict: between the sexes and generations, between nations, civilisations and cultures - and of course we are also at odds with ourselves. At the same time, we are becoming increasingly conflict-averse or even repressing conflict. Yet the conflicts of the future have long been shaping the present and are racing inexorably towards us: the digitalisation of our knowledge, unbounded wars, climate change and new forms of planetary coexistence. Against this backdrop, Armen Avanessian argues in favour of a radical new understanding and a positive reassessment of the phenomenon of conflict, which is as overused as it is poorly understood. In order to solve the social problems of the present, we must first learn to understand our future conflicts.

Armen Avanessian, Philosopher
Robert Misik, Author and journalist

Armen Avanessian, born in Vienna in 1973, is a philosopher, literary scholar and political theorist. He has been a visiting professor at various art academies and universities, including in Nuremberg, Hamburg, Copenhagen and Paris. From 2017 to 2021, he led the popular event series »Armen Avanessian & Enemies« at the Roter Salon of the Berliner Volksbühne. Since August 2021, he has been Professor of Media Theory at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen.

Armen Avanessian:
Conflict. The urgency of solving tomorrow's problems today
Ullstein Verlag 2022, ISBN 9783550201790, € 27.50