The Network

Members

• Dustin Breitenwischer (PI/Antragsteller), North American Studies, Hamburg
  Research Project: “The Creativity of Reform: Frederick Douglass’s Philosophical Imagination” (WT)
  Research Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American and African American Literature and Culture; Aesthetics and Hermeneutics; Hip-Hop and Popular Culture
  Selected Publications: Die Geschichte des Hip-Hop. 111 Alben (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2021); Dazwischen: Spielräume ästhetischer Erfahrung in der US-amerikanischen Kunst und Literatur (Paderborn: Fink, 2018)

• Hanna Katharina Göbel, Sociology, Hamburg
  Research Project: “Formen und Publikum des posthumanen Artefakts”
  Research Interests: Bodies and Technology; Dis/ability and the Posthuman; Atmospheres and Space; Affects, Senses, and Society
  Selected Publications: The Re-Use of Urban Ruins: Atmospheric Inquiries of the City (London: Routledge, 2015); Die Sinnlichkeit des Sozialen: Wahrnehmung und materielle Kultur. Ed. with Sophia Prinz (Bielefeld: transcript, 2015); Designed to Improve? The Makings, Politics and Aesthetics of ‘Social’ Architecture and Design. Ed. with Monika Grubbauer and Anna Richter (CITY, Special Feature, 2017); Performance und Praxis. Ed. with Gabriele Klein (Bielefeld: transcript, 2017).

• Sophia Gräfe, Media and Cultural Studies, Marburg
  Research Project: “The Speculative Image – Surveillance films of the Ministry for State Security”
  Research Interests: Media and Cultural Histories of Behavior; History of Science and Surveillance Film; Aesthetics and Modern Theories of Disgust 
  Selected Publications: “Aesthetics of Protocol.” Space for Visual Research 2. Ed. Markus Weisbeck, Anna Sinofzik, and Adrian Palko (Leipzig: Spector Books, 2017); “Die Figur des Beobachters im Ministerium für Staatssicherheit.” Medien der Bürokratie (Archiv für Mediengeschichte, Band 16). Ed. Friedrich Balke, Joseph Vogl and Bernhard Siegert (München: Fink, 2016) 77–86.

• Ines Kleesattel, Philosophy/Aesthetics, Zurich and Stuttgart
  Research Project: “Situierte Ästhetik: Theorien, Praktiken, Theoriepraktiken…”
  Research Interests: political aesthetics, critical speculation, feminist and post-colonial epistemologies, artistic research, translocality and transtemporality
  Selected Publications: Politische Kunst-Kritik. Zwischen Rancière und Adorno (Wien: Turia+Kant, 2016); Polyphone Ästhetik. Eine kritische Situierung. With S.Bempeza, C.Brunner, K.Hausladen, R.Sonderegger (Linz/Wien: transversal 2019); Untooling. A Deck of Speculative Cards for Translocal Artistic Research. With knowbotiq and Uriel Orlow (Zurich: IFCAR Series 2021)

• Philipp Löffler, North American Studies, Heidelberg
  Research Project: “Literary Patronage: Texts, Practices, Institutions (1800-2000)”
  Research Interests: Sociology of Reading; Institutional Frameworks of Literature and Literary Studies; Literary Education; Literary Theory; History of American Studies
  Selected Publications: Pluralist Desires: Contemporary Historical Fiction and the End of the Cold War (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2015); Handbook of American Romanticism. Ed. with Clemens Spahr and Jan Stieverman (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020).

• Marina Martinez Mateo, Philosophy, Munich
  Research Project: “Ökonomie und Familie. Überlegungen zur Natur der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft” (WT)
  Research Interests: Politics and Aesthetics of Representation; Critical Race Theory; Radical Democracy
  Selected Publications: Politik der Repräsentation: Zwischen Formierung und Abbildung (Wiesbaden: Springer, 2018); “Politisch Erscheinen und emanzipiert Zuschauen. Jacques Rancière und das Theater der Politik.” Jacques Rancière: Pädagogische Grenzgänge. Ed. Ralf Mayer, Alfred Schäfer and Steffen Wittig (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2019).

• Dietmar Meinel, North American Studies, Duisburg-Essen
  Research Project: “Figurations of Failure in Antebellum America”
  Research Interests: Popular Culture; Visual Culture; Antebellum America; Literary and Cultural Theory
  Selected Publications: Pixar’s America: The Reanimation of American Myths and Symbols (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016); A Poetics of Neurosis: Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts. Ed. with Elena Furlanetto (Bielefeld: transcript, 2018).

• Jennifer Pavlik, German Literature, Kassel
  Research Project: “Praxen des Nichtverstehens. Ästhetische Räume interkulturellen Lernens”
  Research Interests: Literary, Pedagogical, and Philosophical Anthropology; Aesthetics and Ethics; Interculturality; Hannah Arendt
  Selected Publication: “Uninteressiertes Weltinteresse”: Über die Ausbildung einer ästhetischen (Denk-) Haltung im Werk Hannah Arendts (Paderborn: Fink, 2015). 

• Sophia Prinz, Theory of Design, Zurich
  Research Project: “Globale Moderne, sozio-materielle Praktiken und die Migration der Form”
  Research Interests: Global Modernity and Local Aesthetic Practices; Postcolonial Theory; Display and the “Migration of Form”
  Selected Publications: Die Praxis des Sehens: Über das Zusammenspiel von Körpern, Artefakten und visueller Ordnung (Bielefeld: transcript, 2014); Die Sinnlichkeit des Sozialen: Wahrnehmung und materielle Kultur. Ed. with Hanna Katharina Göbel (Bielefeld: transcript, 2015).

• Dorna Safaian, Media and Visual Studies, Freiburg
  Research Project: “Visuell-affektive Figuration politischer Autorität in den sozialen Netzwerken” 
  Research Interests: Political Iconology; Aesthetics of Political Heroization; Visual Culture of Protest and Social Movements; Iranian Art and Visual Culture.
  Selected Publications: Protestfotografie. Ed. with Susanne Regener and Simon Teune (Fotogeschichte, Special Issue, 2019); “Visual framing in German movements for gay liberation and against nuclear energy,” with Simon Teune. Visual Studies (DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2021.1940265, 2021); “Der Rosa Winkel in der Protestinszenierung der Homosexuellen Aktion Westberlin.” Theater in queerem Alltag und Aktivismus der 1970er und 1980er Jahre. Ed. Jenny Schrödl and Eike Wittrock (Berlin: Neofelis, 2022).

• Kerstin Schankweiler, Art History, Dresden
  Research Project: “In der Echokammer der Bilder – Paradigmen digitaler Bildkulturen”
  Research Interests: Digital Visual Cultures; Contemporary African Art; Art History in a Global Context; Transculturality
  Selected Publications: Die Mobilisierung der Dinge: Ortsspezifik und Kulturtransfer in den Installationen von Georges Adéagbo (Bielefeld: transcript, 2012); Ästhetik der Gewalt – Gewalt der Ästhetik (= Schriften der Guernica-Gesellschaft, Bd. 19). Ed. with Anna Pawlak (Weimar 2013); Bildproteste. Reihe Digitale Bildkulturen, Ed. Wolfgang Ullrich and Annekathrin Kohout (Berlin: Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 2019).

• Tanja-Bianca Schmidt, Art History, Dresden
  Research Project: “Videos of Police Violence against Refugees”
  Research Interests: Black Identity; Critical Race Theory; Aesthetics of Migration

• Jasmin Wrobel, Latin American Studies, EXC 2020, Freie Universität Berlin
  Research Project: “‘Tinta(s) Femenina(s)’: The ‘Discovery’, ‘Conquest’ and ‘Takeover’ of the Panel as Venue of Feminist Discourses. Women (Characters) in the Spanish and Latin American Comic Production”
  Research Interests: Graphic Narratives in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal; Afro-Latin American Literatures; (Brazilian) Concrete Poetry, Experimental, and Digital Poetry
  Selected Publications: Roteiros de palavras, sons, imagens: Os diálogos transcriativos de Haroldo de Campos (Frankfurt am Main: TFM, 2018); “Narrating other Perspectives, Re-drawing History: The Protagonization of Afro-Brazilians in the Work of Graphic Novelist Marcelo d’Salete.” Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil. Ed. Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho and Nicola Gavioli (London: Routledge, 2017).
  
  

Former Members

• Christian Krüger, Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin
• Maike Meurer, Ethnology, Mainz
  
  

Guests

Workshop “Cultures of Aesthetic Resistance”
January 11-12, 2020, Berlin

• Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality & Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard
• Juliane Rebentisch, Professorin für Philosophie und Ästhetik, HfG Offenbach
  
  

Workshop “Resistance”
October 21-23, 2020, Dresden (online event only)

• Iris Därmann, Professorin für Kulturtheorie und Kulturwissenschaftliche Ästhetik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Robin Celikates, Professor für Sozialphilosophie und Anthropologie, Freie Universität Berlin
  
  

Workshop “Performance of Protest and Resistance”
May 20-21, 2021, Hamburg (online event only)

• Gabriele Klein, Professorin für Soziologie und Psychologie von Bewegung, Sport und Tanz, Universität Hamburg
• Oliver Marchart, Professor für Politische Theorie, Universität Wien
• Urs Stäheli, Professor für allgemeine Soziologie, Universität Hamburg
  
  

Workshop, “Affect, Aesthetics, Resistance”
November 25-26, 2021 (online)

• Marietta Kesting, Juniorprofessorin für Medientheorie, ADBK Munich
• Jan Slaby, Professor für Philosophie des Geistes und Philosophie der Emotion, Freie Universität Berlin
• Tavia Nyong’o, Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, Yale University
  
  

Workshop, “Praxis”
June 16-17, 2022, Berlin

• Georg W. Bertram, Professor of Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin