Assoziation:E:n is a format that offers people with critical-emancipatory aspirations a common platform: To exchange perspectives, to work out common points of view and to follow up these points of view with actions. We are looking for answers to the question of what a space for emancipatory dialogue can look like in our time: what topics are discussed and how, what role does personal and/or professional background or self-location in collective structures play?
The format was founded in 2018, initially as a loose association, a gathering, an agora of and for friends and acquaintances. In the four years since its founding, the format has grown and grown. The institutionalization of this aspiration was finally one of the main motives for the founding of the Assoziation E e.V.
Assoziation:E:n seeks questions in conversation without predetermined answers. The focus is on a common search in dialogue, associatively instead of competitively. Participants are offered some background information and possible questions about a topic in input contributions at the beginning of each session. There is no dogmatic teaching. Together we will explore the limits (on the basis) of empirical research and subjective feelings. In this way we want to trace what is blocking the way to a liberated society.
Assoziation:E:n consciously confronts the underdetermined, the unclear, the unconscious, without necessarily having to determine it. Assoziation:E:n is open to all who are interested in this approach and the respective questions. The events are moderated by members of the association.
Talking about principles
Moderation: Before the sessions, the moderators meet to prepare themselves and to choose modes of communication adequate to the respective topics.
Normativity: We share an emancipatory claim - which can be challenged at any time. We do not aim for the dogmatic, but demand an emancipatory claim in the sense of reflection - how would you classify this or that as emancipatory?
Culture of discussion: We attach great importance to a participatory, empathetic culture of discussion. This is what the moderation by members of the association and other empathetic and experienced persons is aimed at.
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Problems of Progressive Morality: How to Exit the Vampire Castle
On the question of awareness work
Toxic Positivity
On the ideology of complexity
Who determines the boundaries in the fight for climate justice?
How to deal with pressure in family
How to deal with wage work
How to deal with mental illness
How to deal with stress in collective work
On German Ideology and Aesthetics
Reflecting on dynamics of Infantilization
Willingness to Perform and Work Ethic; Family Planning and Mindedness: A Conversation between Parents and Children
Nostalgia & Lost Futures: Our Lockdown Melancholia
Topics @Assoziation:E:n until now
On the Attempt to Collectivize and Politicize Care
Radical Tenderness. Why love is political
Therapy and Revolution. On the (De-)Privatization of Mental Health
Greenwashing
Of conspiracies and propaganda
As"Agora Munich":
Flight and Asylum - Critique of the "Refugee Policy"
On the connection between body and society
Feminist practice?! In law, politics and beyond
On the future of work
The dignity of man is inviolable?!
On the ideology of "overpopulation"
Contact us: info@assoziation-e.org