The fifth edition of ilinx – Berliner Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft is devoted to the indeterminate, dispersed, and varied world of wastelands—used here to denote the agricultural technology that strives for future yield. But the term also includes the idea of urban dereliction, expanses of rubble and ruins, and ruderal areas; abandoned sites, wastelands, and brownfields; inaccessible rocky slopes, contaminated areas, terrains vagues, and fragmented spots; the wild growth that occurs around bollards and the devastation of the Capitalocene. Ilinx 5 examines the economic, ecological, and political stories of conflict and entanglement that can be written in relation to wastelands and fallow landscapes.
Katja Kynast is a research assistant at Humboldt University’s Institute of Cultural Theory and History in Berlin.
Birgit Lettmann is a research assistant at the Helmholtz Centre for Cultural Technology.
Stephan Zandt is a research assistant at Humboldt University’s Institute of Cultural Theory and History in Berlin.
