Today’s intertwined ecological and political disasters create threatening future scenarios that emphasise the fear of loss. The limits of our natural resources and the impasses created by human-centric thinking have begun to emerge as future visions that are akin to a final act, and this is also reflected in artistic research.
For philosopher and feminist theoretician Rosi Braidotti, this ending is culminated by Western culture’s concept of humanity, or the Human. In her view, the Posthuman does not represent a crisis, but a wider historical transition: “[f]ull of risks, it also affords huge opportunities for both humans and non-human agents, as well as for the Humanities, to reinvent themselves” (Braidotti 2024). How we interpret the end of times produces and shapes not only our views of the present but also of the past, and enables the retelling and re-presentation of the present and past in both familiar and alternative ways.
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