Reading
by Ilija Trojanow: More information
- Language: German
- Duration: 1 hour
- In person
What’s it about?
Perhaps the greatest obstacle to a truly free and just society is the fear – fuelled for millennia – of the social chaos that would engulf us without hierarchies and authorities, without an army and police. There is hardly a disaster film that does not paint a picture of brutal, mutual violence on the screen. But what is the reality? The US journalist Rebecca Solnit has researched a dozen historically well-documented examples and tells an encouragingly positive story of self-organisation and mutual aid in the worst of circumstances – of building an autonomous paradise in the midst of a hellish situation. A reading from the book, due to be published in September, accompanied by further reflection on this essential topic.