Please join us for the launch of
The Future Is Inherited: Fragments of a Chile in Revolt
with an informal, online conversation with the author Rodrigo Karmy Bolton

Saturday, April 2, 2022 / 16:00 – 18:00
Errant Bodies studio
Cotheniusstrasse 6, 10407 Berlin

We’re pleased to launch The Future Is Inherited, and to celebrate the ongoing revolutionary developments taking place in Chile.

This collection of articles and essays was written alongside the events of the ongoing Chilean popular rebellion. Parallel to what emerged with force on October 18, 2019, these are fragments that carry with them the sign of danger and the potential for cohesion, both because of the flammable matter they deal with and because of the urgency they create. In Rodrigo Karmy Bolton’s writing, the incandescence of the people, the Averroist analysis of a necessary Constituent Assembly, and the bankruptcy of the transitional episteme of the state, are brought forward with a feverish rigor. The revolt, like his writing, continues to remind us that in the most decisive tremor, in the adjustment with our historicity and, with the words of Salvador Allende, the future is inherited.

RODRIGO KARMY BOLTON is professor and researcher at the Center for Arabic Studies in the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, University of Chile. In his work, contemporary thought is intertwined with medieval Greek-Arab thought, focusing on the question of imagination. This includes research on the theological roots of modernity, the comparative research of Christianity and Islam, and medieval Arabic philosophy. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Chile with a thesis entitled “Politics of In(Ex)-carnation: Elements of a Genealogy of Biopolitics.” He is the author of Barbarian Writings: Essays on Imperial Reason and the Contemporary Arab World (LOM, Santiago de Chile, 2016) and Intifada: A topology of popular imagination (Metales Pesados, Santiago de Chile, 2020), among others.