The 16th Annual Lotman Days invites participants to reflect on endings as semiotic, cultural, and existential phenomena, not only as closures, but as thresholds of renewal. How do artistic movements, political systems, religions, scientific disciplines or societies come to an end or imagine their own limits? How might we understand “the end” as a creative mechanism rather than merely a point of disappearance? What is the function and semiotic potential of narratives of “the end” in periods when endings are no longer perceived as distant, but rather as ongoing?
Northern Clouds. Building Sustainable and Sovereign Digital Futures in the Nordic and Arctic Region
The Northern Clouds conference explores the Nordic and Arctic regions’ emerging role as a key digital hub of the future,...