The power of the Messianic. Alternatives to now

Based on Alexander Kluge's cinematic work How Walter Benjamin Bertolt Brecht explained the weak Messianic Force, we focus on the Messianic as a potential to change society.

In her presentation, Vivian Liska sheds light on the Messianic as a political and social dynamic of motivation and defense of absolutist claims from a literary perspective. Film scholar Getrud Koch takes the “defiant and stubborn” in Kluge's work as a starting point to ask about the reality of desire as a real source of action.