Öffentlicher Abendvortrag von Prof. Dr. Daniel Levy: "Memories of Catastrophes: The Mediat(iza)ion of the Future"

The New Yorker sociologist Daniel Levy addresses how memories of past environmental catastrophes and future projections are mediat(iz)ed.

In his presentation Daniel Levy explores the nexus of new media scapes, memories and representations of disasters in a global context. Katastrophenerinnerungen are circumscribed by two co-extensive developments related: 1) to the changing significance of the future as ecological catastrophes are challenging the ontological security once provided by nation-state narratives about the future. As the current age of uncertainty is deprived of modular pasts and aspirational futures, risk perceptions are situated in new forms of manufactured insecurity and attendant temporal modalities; 2) in the absence of a dominant narrative about the future, memories are not just increasingly mediat(iz)ed but are also situated in a complex media ecology that reveals how national experiences are informed by global expectations and how global experiences are shaping national expectations.