602919 The Humanities and Society
summer semester 2014 | Last update: 18.02.2014 | Place course on memo listExamination of the phenomen "Post-Fordism"; insights into contemporary theories of regulation; exchange with thinkers, who are concerned with current questions of Political Theory.
"Post-Fordism" poses, as has been repeatedly argued in contemporary theories of regulation, serious challenges to thinking insofar it is forced - according to the imperatives of a "knowledge society" - to consume itself actively, that is, to become utilizable in economic terms. What to "do" then? To what extent can Post-Fordism be problematized in terms of an anthropogenesis, as Paolo Virno is arguing? And to what extent does the knowledge society regulated in post-fordist terms eventually present itself as a precarization society, as Oliver Marchart et al. are emphasizing? In consideration of these questions, we shall first of all study selected theories on Post-Fordism. Subsequently, we will participate in a symposia at the Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, where a variety of thinkers will be putting up current positions for discussion.
Reading and discussion of selected texts; participation at the symposia "Political Abilities: The Sense of Subjectification" (27-29/03/2013, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen).
Written
Marchart, Oliver (Hrsg.). Facetten der Prekarisierungsgesellschaft. Prekäre Verhältnisse. Sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf die Prekarisierung von Arbeit und Leben. Transcript: Bielefeld, 2013.
Virno, Paolo. Grammatik der Multitude. Die Engel und der General Intellect. Aus dem Italienischen von Klaus Neundlinger. 2. Auflage. Wien: Turia + Kant, 2008.
Ehrenberg, Alain. Das erschöpfte Selbst. Aus dem Französischen von Manuela Lenzen und Martin Klaus. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2008.
More literature will be announced in the Seminar.
Some of the papers at the symposia will be presented in English.