Native Land, Stop Eject

Filmmaker, photographer and international journalist, Raymond Depardon, born in 1942 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, holds a unique place in the field of the contemporary image. In 1967, he co-founded the Gamma Agency, and in 1978, he joined the Magnum Agency for whom he would carry out reports all over the world up until the beginning of the 1980s. While continuing to practice photography on a daily basis, he later turned his attention to documentary film, making use of the direct cinema genre, including the Profils paysans trilogy: L’Approche, Le Quotidien and La Vie moderne (2001-2008).

French anthropologist Bruce Albert is honorary research director at IRD, the French Research Institute for Development in Marseille, and a fervent defender of the Yanomami people of Brazil, with whom he has been working and visiting since 1975. He is the author of numerous articles and several books on Yanomami ethnography, the situation of indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon, and the ethics of anthropological research, including The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013) and Yanomami, l’esprit de la forêt (Paris: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 2022), both with Davi Kopenawa.

Peter Sloterdijk was rector and professor of philosophy and media theory at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design from 1992 to 2015. He was director of the Institute for Cultural Philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1989 to 2008. Exploding the confines of academic philosophy, his approach relies on constant contact with the real world, opened to all areas, from contemporary art to anthropology, from music to psychoanalysis, from politics to religion. Peter Sloterdijk is the author of many books and essays, including “Rules for the Human Park” and “The Domestication of Human Beings” (in J. Koltan [ed.], Solidarity and the Crisis of Trust, Gdánsk: European Solidarity Centre, 2016, pp. 79–93), and Making the Heavens Speak (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022). His first essay, Kritik der zynischen Vernunft (Critique of Cynical Reason), published in 1983, is the best-selling German-language philosophy book of the 20th century; it has been translated into 32 languages.