Philosophies of Uselessness

In „Philosophies of Uselessness,“ we will explore some pressing questions about urban life, sound, and the legacies of domination that have shaped our society. We aim to unpack and challenge these legacies, exploring how they have infiltrated our everyday experiences and societal structures. By questioning and remixing these present practices, rooted in colonial legacies, we explore how individuals can reclaim their agency and identity in today’s urban and sonic landscapes. Throughout our discussion, we will critique how human-made objects, ideas, and sound structures have come to dominate our environment, creating an atmosphere of anxiety, desperation, and imbalance for many city dwellers.

As we journey through this exploration, we aim not only to interrogate the colonial legacies embedded in our sonic experiences but also to actively reimagine and reshape these practices, fostering a more equitable and diverse sonic landscape for the future.

TANKA FONTA is a visual artist, poet/writer, composer, and philosopher whose works document the variegated expressivity of human consciousness and its expressions beyond the written and spoken word, philosophies and psychology of visual phenomenology, the expressive psychologies of thought, epistemologies of perceptions of intangible and tangible expressions, and the physics of mind and colours. His work also documents the evocative languages of mind, evolving ecologies of thought in its materialised and precipitated forms in mythopoetic narratives, embedded organic thought dictionaries from deep-time, and the evolutionary biographies and historicity of humanity and the visual and sonic imprints of thought on the nature of reality and actuality in the everyday living experiences of humanity. Fonta was born in Cameroon; he lives and works in Berlin.