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The Faculty Of Sensing: Thinking With, Through, and By Anton Wilhelm Amo
Thinking With, Through, and by Anton Wilhelm Amo is a research and exhibition project to honour the work and life of Anton Wilhelm Amo, an outstanding philosopher of the 18th century. On the basis of Amo鈥檚 writings and their reception, politics of referencing, erasure, and canonization will be thematized.
From March-September 2020, the first leg of the exhibition was on view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 鈥� a city in which Anton Wilhelm Amo breathed, walked, and thought. The second iteration of the exhibition is now taking place at SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin 鈥� the city in which in Summer 2020, after decades of struggling to abolish the racist name of M-street, history was made by naming it the first Anton Wilhelm Amo-Street in Germany. The media echo about this renaming process and the associated debates about colonial and racist monuments, honors, archives and other traces in public spaces have re-centred Amo in contemporary discourses 鈥� in the quotidien, in activism as well as academic circles.
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Thinking With, Through, and by Anton Wilhelm Amo is a research and exhibition project to honour the work and life of Anton Wilhelm Amo, an outstanding philosopher of the 18th century. On the basis of Amo鈥檚 writings and their reception, politics of referencing, erasure, and canonization will be thematized.
From March-September 2020, the first leg of the exhibition was on view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 鈥� a city in which Anton Wilhelm Amo breathed, walked, and thought. The second iteration of the exhibition is now taking place at SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin 鈥� the city in which in Summer 2020, after decades of struggling to abolish the racist name of M-street, history was made by naming it the first Anton Wilhelm Amo-Street in Germany. The media echo about this renaming process and the associated debates about colonial and racist monuments, honors, archives and other traces in public spaces have re-centred Amo in contemporary discourses 鈥� in the quotidien, in activism as well as academic circles.
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