RADICAL TALKS 2024
Radical talks take place in the public space and aim to circle among people. Several guest speakers will present their thoughts on the topics, while the audience will be invited to participate in a discussion. Over a glass of wine.
Curator of the Festival of Radical Talks: Bara Kolenc, PhD.
RADICAL TALKS 1:
Artificial Intelligence and Revolution
Thursday, 20 June 17.00-19.00
Tivoli Jakopič Promenade/Tivoli Park
We've got artificial intelligence all figured out. Although it has no consciousness, it has self-development. Although it is intelligent, it has no consciousness. From this, we deduce that it has no responsibility and no relationship to otherness. It can relate to bodies, it can subjugate them. It can gain access to nuclear energy. It can create corporate scams. It can live without living nature. Like any organism, it evolves by an internal inertia to which everything else is secondary. Although it is born of man, all that is human about it is pure externality. It does not care about the good, the beautiful and the true – its criteria for being are radically different. Every existence is self-existence – every species is selfish. We will never be able to meet these criteria. And vice versa. Morality is not about all of us being amoral anyway. It is about this idea existing at all as something defining. AI is alien. It may not reach ecstasy. But it has already surpassed us: what we fear is always already there. That is why we want to think the impossible: not simply the technological revolution and its consequences, but – can AI be revolutionary?
Speakers: Dr Alfie Bown, Dr Zack Sievers, Peter Kutin, fl3ka (decentrala), fram3d (decentrala)
RADICAL TALKS 2:
The Fourth World
Friday, 21 June 17.00-19.00
Jakopič Promenade/Tivoli Park
The world beyond the third world, which does not even have a name and is not classified by those who cut the planet. The fourth world is a world that exists, but at the same time, it is a world that is yet to come, a possible world of edges, of shadows, of landscapes beyond reality, of being beyond wanting, of peace and blurred sunshine, of bodies not in bondage to work. What is the fourth world? No, there will be no war in the title. It only makes sense to think of the apocalypse while it is not yet happening. Now it is necessary to think of something else. As long as anything exists, there is an alternative. When reality threatens lives, it provokes an immediate response. It creates divisions, but it connects even more. Reality is common and undeniable. Genocide is happening. The planet is warming. Ecosystems are collapsing. Somewhere, the voices of the non-aligned are echoing. All that first-world man buys is time. By contrast, fourth-world time floats. For this world does not measure anything and is not itself measurable.
Speakers: Dr Julie Reshe, Dr Helen Rollins, Dorotea Pospihalj
