On 27 October 2019, President Trump announced that US Special Forces had killed the leader of ISIS. What does this killing – an extraterritorial, extrajudicial assassination – mean for law? This lecture argues that events like this killing effect a translation of liberal legality into necropolitical law.
IFK_Live (Zoom Lecture) of Jothie Rajah.
Only fifteen years separate two historical events fundamental to the constitution of two Western and Central European democracies as we know them today. The Carnation Revolution of April 1974 in Portugal and the Velvet Revolution of November 1989 in former Czechoslovakia shifted the course of local and global histories and rewrote national narratives, while playing important roles in much larger processes such as the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the definitive dissolution of a moribund colonial empire. Lecture of IFK_Junior Fellow Ana de Almeida.
Translation, in Gramsci and Benjamin, functions as a point of condensation and exemplification of their other aesthetic, philosophical, historical and political interests.
This Guest Lecture is the Keynote speech of the conference “Passagen: Walter Benjamin und Antonio Gramsci“ at the Institut für Romanistik der Universität Wien, in cooperation with the Arbeitskreis Kulturanalyse (aka):
THEORY, JOYOUS AND UNTIMELY
Lecture of IFK_Research Fellow Rositza Alexandrova, November 27, 2017:“What Do Artists Do All Day” is a BBC Four documentary series prudently and pruriently devised to be reality TV’s answer to Giorgio Vasari’s “Vite”. Obliquely, it is a reinterpretation of Richard Scarry’s seminal critical enquiry (for ages 3 to 6) “What Do People Do All Day”, as it is also the pointedly pecuniary theme of the 2016 Manifesta art biennial: “What Do People Do for Money”.
Thomas Macho auf 3sat, “Angst”
IFK_Direktor Thomas Macho hat sich eingehend mit dem Thema Angst befasst und unter anderem Seminare zu Alfred Hitchcock gegeben. 3sat sprach mit ihm über die Angst.
Vortrag von IFK_Direktor Thomas Macho vom 9. Oktober 2017 zu Julien Benda.
Vortrag von IFK_Junior Fellow Thomas Wallerberger vom 12.4.2021
Spiel und Tod erweisen sich als Schlüsselkategorien im modernen Nachdenken über Subjekte und ihr reflexives Selbstverhältnis. Doch warum wird gerade Russisch Roulette zu einer ludischen Praxis, dessen symbolische Bedeutung und popkulturelle Prominenz weit über die überschaubare Zahl realer Begebenheiten hinausreicht?
Ein Vortrag von IFK_Junior Fellow Julian Baller vom 25.6.2018.
Vortragsmitschnitt von City of Vienna/IFK_Fellow Mohammed Bamyeh vom 4.3.2019.
In 1916, at the height of German-Turkish political relations, the journalist, philologist, and literary critic Friedrich Schrader completed the first full length translation of a Turkish novel into German: Halide Edip’s “The New Turan” (1911). Lecture of IFK_Research Fellow 2018 Kristin Dickinson.