We live in unspeakable times. Streams of hypercomplexity saturate the planet and accelerate the collapse of natural ecosystems. Embarked in an extinctive drift, we lack words for the world to come.

Will the future be post-linguistic? Or do we need a language that can pronounce the extinction, a new écriture du désastre? In its constant recoding, the planet is now overwriting the very relationship between words and things.

Extinction is just another word for a multitude of stories, struggles and weaves: a speculative device useful to dispel the myth of ecological harmony and embrace the radical materialism of human and nonhuman collectivities. The future will exist (it must) as soon as “We” renounce to control its narrative.

HERMEX6 aims at investigating the changing relationships between language/s and extinction/s by gathering data, growing a research network and developing ideas across contemporary debates and disciplines. Three main events (two international workshops in 2025 and one international conference in 2026) will be held in Barcelona.