Oh Man! The World Ends, Masculinity Endures

In this lecture, presented within the framework of STRÜKTÜR’s research on new authoritarianism and populism, Ana Teixeira Pinto explores current frameworks for civilizational collapse. Titled "Oh Man! The World Ends, Masculinity Endures", the talk examines end-of-the-world scenarios in which catastrophe liberates masculinity from social constraints and reframes apocalypse as an opportunity.

Introduced by Füsun Türetken and followed by a Q&A, the discussion situates these reflections within broader analyses of contemporary authoritarianism, probing the unsettling persistence of the ideologies that precipitated the very crises they claim to solve.

The lecture was held at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, on October 25, 2025, commissioned by STRÜKTÜR and supported by the Goethe-Institut Visual Art Fund.

Prof. Dr. Ana Teixeira Pinto is a writer and cultural theorist based in Berlin, and a professor at HGB Leipzig. She is the editor of the Sternberg Press series On the Antipolitical and co-organized HKW Berlin's “The White West” conference/podcast series, co-editing the subsequent publication Fascism, Unreason and the Paradox of Modernity. Her forthcoming book is Death Wall (Sternberg Press).

Prof. Dr. Füsun Türetken is an architect, research-based artist, writer, and professor at HfK Bremen and the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. Her work spans visual culture and critical inquiry, often informed by the figure of the trickster as a method for navigating institutional structures and subverting entrenched hierarchies. Her doctoral thesis, On the Most Powerful Catalyst on the Planet, analyzes the agency of metals across conflict, finance, environmental crises, and (digital) colonialism. Her writings include Breathing Space, "The Amalgamated Toxicity of Ground Zero" in Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth (Sternberg Press, 2014), Gold. Alchemic Desire in Swiss Psychotropic Gold (Christoph Merian Verlag, 2020), Neodymium: Superconductive Lifelines for Metallic Monsters (Umbau, Issue 3, 2024), and Where They Hide the Clouds (Acid Clouds, NAi Publishers, 2024). Alongside her writing, Füsun has shown work at the Venice Biennale, STUK, EYE Film Museum, Impakt Festival, and other international venues.

As Co-Chair of STRÜKTÜR, a Berlin-based association for artistic exchange, she develops transdisciplinary, socially engaged curatorial and artistic research practices that foreground collective inquiry at the nexus of art, politics, and theory. Through its residency program, the publication platform Reading Room, and a range of public programs, STRÜKTÜR actively supports artistic research and fosters a critical art discourse across borders, communities, and generations.