Maria Lassnig malt Tiere, viele Tiere. In allen Medien, Notizen und Gesprächen finden sich Beispiele der tiefen Auseinandersetzung Lassnigs mit dem tierlichen Gegenüber. Diesen Tieren eignet eine ähnliche Mischung aus Nähe und Alterität wie der Selbsterfahrung des Leibes – sie stehen in Verbindung mit dem Lassnigs Werk überspannenden Komplex des Körpergefühls.
A study of Austrian composer Hanns Eisler’s »Deutsche Sinfonie« can help us understand how European artists responded to the atrocities of WWII concentration camps. As a cultural historian, Kenneth Marcus places this interdisciplinary study in historical context to examine why Eisler created this work and the significance that this work has for human rights today.
Plants have recently come to the fore in the humanities where the interest in the non-human fostered by ecocriticism, animal studies, and posthumanism has shifted to the vegetal. With increasing urgency, plants, their agency, and their cultural/natural impact are being studied by literary and cultural scholars. In order to radically rethink the status of the vegetal, this workshop investigates the place of plants in philosophy and literature, addressing both specific sites of the vegetal (such as the earth, the garden, or the middle) as well as the role of plants for our understanding of human-nature relations in the age of the so-called anthropocene. Particular emphasis will be placed upon questions of scale from an all-encompassing “planthroposcene” (proposed by anthropologist Natasha Myers) to minuscule parts of plants as a place for reflection in order to conceptualize the specific spatio-theoretical dimensions of the vegetal.
Plants have recently come to the fore in the humanities where the interest in the non-human fostered by ecocriticism, animal studies, and posthumanism has shifted to the vegetal. With increasing urgency, plants, their agency, and their cultural/natural impact are being studied by literary and cultural scholars. In order to radically rethink the status of the vegetal, this workshop investigates the place of plants in philosophy and literature, addressing both specific sites of the vegetal (such as the earth, the garden, or the middle) as well as the role of plants for our understanding of human-nature relations in the age of the so-called anthropocene. Particular emphasis will be placed upon questions of scale from an all-encompassing “planthroposcene” (proposed by anthropologist Natasha Myers) to minuscule parts of plants as a place for reflection in order to conceptualize the specific spatio-theoretical dimensions of the vegetal.
Plants have recently come to the fore in the humanities where the interest in the non-human fostered by ecocriticism, animal studies, and posthumanism has shifted to the vegetal. With increasing urgency, plants, their agency, and their cultural/natural impact are being studied by literary and cultural scholars. In order to radically rethink the status of the vegetal, this workshop investigates the place of plants in philosophy and literature, addressing both specific sites of the vegetal (such as the earth, the garden, or the middle) as well as the role of plants for our understanding of human-nature relations in the age of the so-called anthropocene. Particular emphasis will be placed upon questions of scale from an all-encompassing “planthroposcene” (proposed by anthropologist Natasha Myers) to minuscule parts of plants as a place for reflection in order to conceptualize the specific spatio-theoretical dimensions of the vegetal.
Zwiespältige Begierden. Aspekte der Medienkultur
Wir leben in einer Medienkulturgesellschaft, in der uns die Medien weitestgehend die Agenda für unsere Wirklichkeitsentwürfe vorgeben – bis hin zu den Artefakten der Werbekörper. Aber unsere Versuche, Medienkulturgesellschaften auf den Begriff zu bringen, sind verwirrend vielfältig und diffus. S.J. Schmidt versucht, eine kohärente Beschreibungskultur für eine plausible Kulturbeschreibung zu entwerfen und an prägnanten Erscheinungen der Medienkultur zu erproben.
Die Philosophin beobachtete während der Pandemie eine Sehnsucht nach Solidarität, während die Politik die unterschiedliche Verwundbarkeit von Körpern weiter festigte. Zum Artikel
Der Einfluss der mongolischen »Fremdherrschaft« während der Yuan-Dynastie (1271–1368) auf Chinas Selbstverständnis ist unbestreitbar: Zum ersten Mal in seiner Geschichte wurde China de facto – nicht nur in der Imagination – Zentrum eines Weltreiches. Kein Wunder also, dass wir Auswirkungen in den folgenden Perioden und bis heute beobachten können.
Sending a good-morning greeting with a bouquet of flowers; getting tattoos together; sharing recipes: digital media are crucial for such everyday activities that keep families and friends together when they are separated by forced migration. Validating this, a Syrian woman told me: »I would be nothing without my smartphone«.
»Wie die Geschichte Chinas Gegenwart prägt“
Taiwan ist ein unveräußerlicher Teil Chinas, so das Mantra der Ein-China-Politik. Dass sich China über ein unteilbares Territorium definiert, hat eine lange Tradition. Sie beginnt spätestens im 13. Jahrhundert unter den Mongolen – genau in der Zeit dieser Fremdherrschaft war China erstmals reales Zentrum eines Weltreichs. Wie sich die relativ kurze Episode bis heute auswirkt, erklärt die Sinologin Sabine Hinrichs im ORF-Interview.
Lukas Wieselberg porträtiert das Forschungsprojekt von IFK_Junior Fellow Sabine Hinrichs.