This past Thursday, April 23 2026, the DDD lecture series hosted Jonas Staal for a talk on Redistribute Extinction: The Death of Elon Musk and Other Stories.
Our time is shaped by interconnected devastation: the obscene rise of trillion-dollar companies, new forms of authoritarianism, a monstrous war machine and climate collapse. What is the place of art and cultural work faced with these various ends of the world? How do we contribute to imagining meaningful forms of collective life, when the very idea of a future is increasingly unthinkable? In this lecture, artist and propaganda researcher Jonas Staal argued that exactly when worlds end, our resistance – artistically and politically – matters more than ever. He discussed the need for transnational climate tribunals to prosecute fossil fuel elites, the aesthetic practice of burning superyachts and the necessity to liberate our imaginary of the future by demanding a million more years.
The DDD Event Series is organized and sponsored by the JCU Department of Communication and Media Studies.