Thinking Together – The Politics of Time

“Thinking Together” is a transdisciplinary platform devoted to investigating our relation to time – time, understood as an important political category that determines the ways we live, work and produce.

The project pursues diagnoses of current time regimes, time structures, and the experience of time in late capitalist societies, from political, scientific, philosophical and artistic perspectives, in search of new political imaginaries concerning our relation to time.

The nine-day format consists of informal seminars, lecture-performances, presentations, discussions, work groups, film screenings, listening sessions and other experimental discursive formats – all publicly accessible during the whole period of the festival, and free of charge. “Thinking Together” develops the conceptual core of the new Festival for Time Issues: a space for thought and reflexion vis à vis the manifold experiences of time provided by life and the festival programme.

“Thinking Together” aims at setting up the necessary conditions for exchanging thoughts and experiences beyond common forms of knowledge performance, following the conviction that what it needs is time, space, concentration, generosity, disobedience, experimentation and care. The foyers of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele will serve as an infrastructure and shelter for the public, invited guests and artists of the festival to spend time thinking together about the politics of time.