Alessandro De Cesaris

DGAE–Plattform#2 – Transkulturelle Medienästhetik // Transcultural Media Aesthetics

June 22-24, 2023 Leuphana University LüneburgZentralgebäude (C40.704) Invited SpeakersMieke Bal (Amsterdam/Paris)Sandeep Bhagwati (Zurich/Montréal)Susan Buck-Morss (New York)Iris Därmann (Berlin)Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Bochum)Nikita Dhawan (Dresden)Rolf Elberfeld (Hildesheim)Knowbotiq – Yvonne Wilhelm &Christian Huebler (Zurich)Fogha McCornilius Refem (Berlin)Juliane Rebentisch (Offenbach)Monique Roelofs (Amsterdam)Matthias Wittmann (Mainz)Dork Zabunyan (Paris)

Aesthetics & Critique VI : Realism in Perspective / Réalisme en perspective / Perspektiven des Realismus (Fribourg, 26-27.05.2023)

Back to Reality! Whether in art or philosophy, recent years have witnessed an outright run on the real, under banners such as speculative realism, neo-materialism, documentality, eco-realism, speculative poetics, or object-oriented aesthetics. Only progressively it starts to become clear that what these approaches respectively mean by realism differs sharply. The workshop shall confront various epistemic … Read moreAesthetics & Critique VI : Realism in Perspective / Réalisme en perspective / Perspektiven des Realismus (Fribourg, 26-27.05.2023)

Seminar: Aesthetics & Critique V – After Nature / (D’)après Nature / Nach der Natur

Saturday 26 November – Kunsthalle FriArt – Petites Rames, 22 – 1700 Fribourg For centuries, artists have been keen to paint from nature. What remains of this aesthetic project in a world where nature is revealed as already fully “anthropized”? What is left of nature, when it has lost the status of the Great Outdoors? … Read moreSeminar: Aesthetics & Critique V – After Nature / (D’)après Nature / Nach der Natur

Conference: Pouvoirs de la contagion (Fribourg, 5-6 mai 2022)

Pour vous inscrire et réserver une place, cliquez ici (L’inscription est bienvenue mais pas obligatoire). Le concept de « contagion » présente une généalogie complexe et ramifiée. Associé aujourd’hui avant tout à l’immunologie médicale, il embrasse aussi le champ des affects et des représentations, à la croisée entre pensée religieuse, anthropologie sociale et théorie culturelle. En outre, … Read moreConference: Pouvoirs de la contagion (Fribourg, 5-6 mai 2022)

Publication: Emmanuel Alloa (Ed.), This Obscure Thing Called Transparency, LUP 2022.

Transparency is the metaphor of our time. Whether in government or corporate governance, finance, technology, health or the media – it is ubiquitous today, and there is hardly a current debate that does not call for more transparency. But what does this word actually stand for and what are the consequences for the life of … Read morePublication: Emmanuel Alloa (Ed.), This Obscure Thing Called Transparency, LUP 2022.

Seminar : Problèmes de l’esthétique contemporaine / Probleme der Gegenwartsästhetik / Problems in Contemporary Aesthetics.

Teachers: Prof. Emmanuel Alloa & Christoph Haffter. Tuesday, 15.15 – 17.00. Room 4126. There has never been as much art as today, and never before were aesthetic practices as ubiquitous as in contemporary societies. On the other hand, there has probably never been as much theoretical uncertainty with regard to the very concept of the … Read moreSeminar : Problèmes de l’esthétique contemporaine / Probleme der Gegenwartsästhetik / Problems in Contemporary Aesthetics.

Seminar : Das Tragische. Antike und moderne Perspektiven.

Dozent: Christoph Haffter und Máté Herner. Montag 15.15 – 17.00. Raum 4120. Die antiken Tragödien haben das philosophische Nachdenken immer wieder herausgefordert: In ihrem Zentrum steht die Auflehnung des Menschen gegen das Verhängnis. Philosophie, die sich solcher Tragik aussetzt, hat es mit der Frage zu tun, ob und wie sich jenes menschliche Leiden begreifen lässt, … Read moreSeminar : Das Tragische. Antike und moderne Perspektiven.