I thought I would start by recalling some of your work dealing with the commons. Ralph Ghoche: I immediately thought of you when Caroline Maniaque, Sandra Fiori and I started to work on this issue of Les Cahiers because your essay on Parckfarm and, of course, your work on utopia and on the question of the commons, overlaps so well with the themes that we were trying to broach here. The first book in the trilogy, The Capsular Civilization: On the City in the Age of Fear, appeared in 2004, followed by Entropic Empire: On the City of Man in the Age of Disaster, in 2012, and concluding with Ending the Anthropocene: Essays on Activism in the Age of Collapse, which was published in 2021. The books were published over the span of 17 years and treat such global developments as the war on terrorism, the US occupation of Iraq, and the crises affecting the planetary climate and species’ biodiversity. ![]() He has also been a leading figure in contemporary struggles for social justice, co-founding such organizations as the BRussells Tribunal, an international activist network mobilized against the logic of permanent war, and BACBI which advocates for a Belgian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.Ģ This interview covers questions that are at the center of three of De Cauter’s books, considered by the author as forming a trilogy. Beyond his academic writings, De Cauter has published poems, essays in architectural criticism, and numerous columns and opinion pieces in newspapers and on digital news and commentary websites. De Cauter is Professor of the Philosophy of Culture in the Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning at KU Leuven and the author of some 20 books. ![]() ![]() 1 This interview took place in early January, 2023 between Belgian philosopher, art historian, writer, and activist, Lieven De Cauter (b. 1959), and Ralph Ghoche, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Barnard College, Columbia University.
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