Die Studienleistung besteht in einem mündlichen oder schriftlichen Impuls während der Seminarzeiten. Eine mündliche oder schriftliche Prüfungsleistung ist nach Absprache möglich.

Multiple global crises have marked the moment we live in: economic crisis, ecological emergency, pandemic, wars, intensified precarity – as the title of a popular movie says, it can feel like “everything, everywhere, all at once.” Sometimes this entanglement of emergencies is refered to as a polycrisis. Their effect on mental health and emotional state is undeniable. Popular culture has an active role in establishing and shaping the general affective state (structure of feeling, according to Raymond Williams, or Zeitgeist, in more general terms), but also in the ways individuals experience and cope with the situation. Movies like the one mentioned above and social media reflect but also produce and shape emotions such as despair, fear, rage or indifference, hope etc. In this course we will explore different affects connected with the current moment of polycrisis, as well as the strategies through which people attempt to confront, survive, interpret, or transcend these conditions. We will use the examples offered by the lecturer (movies like Parasite, Mad Max: Fury Road, Everything, Everywhere, All at Once), but also those that students find relevant for their understanding of the current cluster of crises and imagination of possibilities for resilience, transformation and collective agency.