AMONG US of ghosts, genies and monsters

To speak of them is to open oneself to what lies beneath every society: the skeletons in the closet, the rubble of war under the streets, the forgotten names, shredded files, and what has been buried more poorly than properly. Grass will eventually grow over the cities. And beneath them lies so much that, even as something excluded and repressed, continues to make its demands on the present.

What do people owe the dead? What do genies whisper about? What future do zombies dream of? Which monsters must people fear, and which do they fear?

The philosopher Fabian Bernhardt explores these and similar questions with his guests. In intimate one-on-one conversations, among themselves, to probe the boundaries of this very fragile, questionable "we." In the Red Salon, a table is set for the Unnamed One, leaving a place free for the ghosts, djinns, and monsters of the post-migrant present.

The discussion series is supported by the Collaborative Research Centre Affective Societies (Free University of Berlin).