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Dieter Mersch

Epistemologies of Aesthetics

We  identified ‘showing’—rather than ‘saying’—as the primary self-manifestation of the aesthetic. By ‘showing’ and ‘manifestation’ we do not mean expression, but exhibition and exposition. Wherever works work only with aisthēta and relevance is drawn from perceptions or things and their materiality—from every nuance of coloring, from the way in which objects are framed or combined, from the position of a detail, from the interval between two notes and their microtonal succession or arrhythmic placement, from any hesitation of physical feeling,...
  • Epistemologie
  • Diskursanalyse
  • Denkt Kunst
  • Ästhetik
  • Künstlerische Forschung

 

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Sabine Gebhardt Fink (Hg.), Muda Mathis (Hg.), ...

Aufzeichnen und Erinnern. Performance Chronik Basel (1987–2006)

Die ausgehenden 1980er und beginnenden 1990er Jahre bedeuten eine wichtige Zäsur in der Performance Kunst. Erstmals wird dies in der Publikation »Out of Actions« auf den Punkt gebracht. Zahlreiche Performance-Künstler_innen wenden sich zu diesem Zeitpunkt »aktuellen« Medien wie Video oder Installation zu oder übertragen performative Verfahren in tradierte Medien wie Zeichnung und Malerei. Dies geschieht mit der Absicht, herkömmliche Gattungsgrenzen in Theater, Musik, Tanz und den audiovisuellen Künsten zu überschreiten – die »Transformation der Aktion« ist das grosse Thema. Zur...
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  • Erinnerung
  • Performance
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Eric Baudelaire

A for Anomie

A for Anomie

The idea that terrorism and other forms of political violence are directly related to strains caused by strongly held grievances has been one of the most common explanations to date and can be traced to a diverse set of theoretical concepts including relative deprivation, social disorganization, breakdown, tension, and anomie. Merton (1938) identifies anomie as a cultural condition of frustration, in which values regarding goals and how to achieve them conflict with limitations on the means of achievement.

Gary LaFree and Laura Dugan, “Research on Terrorism and Countering Terrorism”, Crime and Justice, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2009.

 

B for Block or Blocked

If terrorism in each of its expressions can be considered an indicator of the existence of a political block (of an impossibility of reacting if one wishes to react differently), this influences its real ability to modify the situation. Terrorism has been historically more successful when it was not...

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