The fifth edition of ilinx - Berliner Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft is devoted to the
indeterminate dispersed and varied world of wastelands-used here to denote the agricultural
technology that strives for future yield. But the term also includes the idea of urban
dereliction expanses of rubble and ruins and ruderal areas abandoned sites wastelands and
brownfields inaccessible rocky slopes contaminated areas terrains vagues and fragmented
spots the wild growth that occurs around bollards and the devastation of the Capitalocene.
Ilinx 5 examines the economic ecological and political stories of conflict and entanglement
that can be written in relation to wastelands and fallow landscapes. Katja Kynast ist
wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Kulturwissenschaft der Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin. Birgit Lettmann ist Mitarbeiterin am Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik.
Stephan Zandt ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Kulturwissenschaft der
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Katja Kynast is a research assistant at Humboldt University's
Institute of Cultural Theory and History in Berlin. Birgit Lettmann is a research assistant at
the Helmholtz Centre for Cultural Technology. Stephan Zandt is a research assistant at Humboldt
University's Institute of Cultural Theory and History in Berlin.
