Despite the increasing number of shocking events around us, we remain divided, focused on mutual disparagement and ill-will. Why is it that such threats as a war at Europe’s doorstep, catastrophic climate change, deepening socialinequalities, and so on, are unable to awaken in us a sense of solidarity and cooperation? Are we no longer capable of empathy and responsibility? Or have we simply stopped caring about anything other than our own sense of being right and the need to discharge our accumulated frustration on others?
Reflecting on this problem, we will return to the ethos of the Solidarity movement and to the Czechoslovak Charter 77, whose signatory, the distinguished philosopher Jan Patočka, was the first to speak of a ‘solidarity of the shaken’.
Project description
„Think Hub” is a space for thinking. Thinking live and outside the box. Thinking along with breathing, against the suffocating and soulless world of mindlessness. We’re going to talk about the most important issues concerning our difficult times and approach them in an unconventional way. Our guests will be the most prominent Polish intellectuals. „Think Hub” is a dash, a pause, suspension. Here, what is obvious and considered a norm is suspended, unravelled and dissected in order to reflect on what is deeper and further: what remains unthought and unspoken because it is inconvenient, difficult, against common sense and the universally accepted opinion. „Think Hub” is our attempt to respond to the un-think-able adversityin the world. We will be thinking creatively, in an inspiring context and atmosphere. The conversation will be permeated by improvised music (not only jazz), and will open with a provocative, philosophical monologue, whose form has been defined as ‘philosophical stand-up’.
Idea: Piotr Augustyniak
Guests: Radka Denemarková, Tadeusz Gadacz
Talk: Ludger Hagedorn
Musical improvisation: Marek Pospieszalski, Kuba Janicki
