Martina Leeker aka Fanny Cyberton, Fanny Cybertron – the Avatar, Lotte Leaker

Content:

The performance-lecture critically reflects on the discourse of lifelikeness. It is pointed out that this contemporary concept of an existence in techno-human oneness and posthuman entanglement ties up to druglike and bedazzled states of being in technological environments of the 1960s.

Fanny Cyberton explains lifelikeness as a basic concept of techno-human existence in 2043, guaranteeing to survive climate crises and to work on better, (more) equal and diverse societies. On the contrary, Fanny Cybertron – the Avatar unfolds the pre-history of lifelikeness in the dreams of all-oneness as an anti-bourgeois existence in the 1960s hippie-culture. After these lectures Lotte Leaker reports on her overwhelming and harrowing experiences at the training-camp “LIFELIKE-ALL-ONE-NESS for better futures” from 2043, encountering leaders as Timothy Leary, Herman Kahn, USCO, and OMSK Social Club.

Fanny Cyberton explains lifelikeness as a basic concept of techno-human existence in 2043, guaranteeing to survive climate crises and to work on better, (more) equal and diverse societies. On the contrary, Fanny Cybertron – the Avatar unfolds the pre-history of lifelikeness in the dreams of all-oneness as an anti-bourgeois existence in the 1960s hippie-culture. After these lectures Lotte Leaker reports on her overwhelming and harrowing experiences at the training-camp “LIFELIKE-ALL-ONE-NESS for better futures” from 2043, encountering leaders as Timothy Leary, Herman Kahn, USCO, and OMSK Social Club.

Context:

Performed during: 4th POM Conference, Politics of the Machines. Lifelikeness & beyond. RWTH Aachen University – Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re), April 22-27, 2024; Within the Workshop: Probing Non-Anthropocentric Vulnerabilities for More-Than-Human Care, by: Martina Leeker (Universität Köln) and Konstanze Schütze (PH Karlsruhe), Care Research Lab, Track 6: Vulnerability and Caring: Perspectives and Challenges, 22 April 2024.

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Material:

Textbooks (transcripts of the lecture performances)

Textbook 1: “Take Care encountering Lifelikeness - Against a New Worldsaving Ontology”, Fanny Cyberton, and Fanny Cybertron – the Avatar >> pdf-version

Textbook 2: “Living in Lifelikeness-Hippy-Times”, Lotte Leaker >> pdf-version

Films (of the lecture performances)

Film 1: The whole performance “Take Care encountering Lifelikeness – Against a New Worldsaving Ontology” >> video documentation

Film 2: The lecture performance by Fanny Cyberton and Fanny Cybertron – the Avatar. “Take Care encountering Lifelikeness – Against a New Worldsaving Ontology” >> video documentation

Film 3: Lotte Leaker’s film from the training-camp. “LIFELIKE-ALL-ONE-NESS for better futures: Living in Lifelikeness-Hippy-Times” >> video documentation