The interdisciplinary series lonely planet explores topics around loneliness through four discursive focal points. Framed as a contemporary societal diagnosis, loneliness is critically examined and discussed as a starting point for new forms of intimacy and solidarity – without losing sight of the structural causes that lead to loneliness and continue to threaten its intensification. The series is an invitation for exchange, dissensus, listening, and collective reflection: an open space in which queer-feminist literature, art, and theory are not only read, but also discussed and mobilized against dominant and atomizing power relations.

Curated by Julia Knaß and Annika Stich