Is modernity (y)our aftermath? For D12, modernity haunts our common planetary horizon like a zombie, caught between death and life. How do you feel about modernity’s fate with respect to its universalism qua totalitarism / antitotalitarism refrain: nostalgic, compromised, critical, terrified or still yearning for postmodernity? In light of your participation / non-participation in D12, how do you wake up from post / modernity’s night of the living dead?

Is bare life your apocalyptic political dimension? If bare life deals with that part of our existence from which no measure of security will ever protect us, how do you feel in your real life with regard to your participation / non-participation in D12? Tortured, lyrical or even ecstatic? Is the concentration camp a useful paradigm for you? How can bare life be experienced by an audience? (did you ever read Agamben in a state of exception? Crying or laughing?)

What is to be done after the D12 Bildung programme? Will your participation / non-participation help you not to feel lost between the devil (didacticism, academia) and the deep blue sea (commodity fetishism)? Did reading Schiller make you feel romantic? Have you walked through Habermas’s public sphere? Are you sharing Rancière’s distribution of the sensible? Would you still prefer to fly with Deleuze & Guattari? Develop as you wish, with or without reading list.