Join us for a public lecture by Tumi Mogorosi on Tuesday 4 November (19:45) at the Netherlands Film Academy.
RSVP for this evening (entrance = free)

The Human under Crisis: Notes on a Possible Moment of Invention
In this current moment of ecological catastrophe, we are confronted with profound theoretical, ideological, and political questions. The Anthropocene is proposed as a human project propelled by capital, which has led some thinkers to suggest we are instead living in the Capitalocene. The critique of human centrality offers a way to open other possibilities for ethical relations with all life forces, challenging the crisis within human autonomy and its hierarchical status. Decentering human sovereignty allows us to rethink the symbolic position of the human itself.

What becomes of the human when it loses its autonomous status? Does the end of a human-centered world open the possibility to undo the violence of humanism’s imperial and colonial roots? Can we realize post-humanist equality between species, or must we invent new categories of being through revolutionary processes, categories not yet imagined?

About Tumi Mogorosi
Tumi Mogorosi is a South African drummer, composer, and theorist whose work bridges sonic practice, black aesthetics, and philosophical inquiry. Currently on a European tour, he is performing in Rotterdam, Utrecht, Gent, and Cologne. His acclaimed debut Project ELO (Jazzman Records, 2014) and subsequent works expand collective improvisation, choral form, and spiritual expression in jazz. His book DeAesthetic: Writing with and from the Black Sonic (2021) explores sound, silence, and embodiment, unsettling colonial modernity’s political and aesthetic assumptions. Through his music and writing, Mogorosi proposes sound as a mode of thought and listening as ethical attention, essential to exploring the human under crisis and imagining new worlds.