ABSTRACT
In one of her first interviews after receiving the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, Olga Tokarczuk repeated her controversial 2016 statement, first expressed during a grave migration crisis in Europe when many of her compatriots demonstrated a visibly anti-immigrant attitude. In it, she referred to her native Poland as an open country that had always tolerated all minorities. Artists have an important role to play in designing speculative communities. Not only do they publicly speak about current waves of a global economic and ecological crisis and local anti-immigrant attitudes, as Tokarczuk’s interview demonstrates, they take up this issue in their artistic activities. Obviously, not only Hage has recently pointed out a close connection between the welfare state’s anti-politics and the importance of speculating about a (better) future in the world.
