103249 SE Research Workshop: The Unconscious in Education and Culture:
winter semester 2022/2023 | Last update: 28.09.2022 | Place course on memo listThe seminar offers an introduction to recent social theoretical approaches that reflect on the pitfalls of post-oedipal societies. Students are sensitised to critically question phenomena of their everyday life for hidden technologies of domination.
The seminar examines concrete phenomena of the post-oedipal society, which are often captivating precisely because they come across as an offer of transparency and democratisation and thus seem to take up demands of the social movements. In the process, we are dealing with new forms of participation that are difficult to understand and, paradoxically, at the same time clearly bear illiberal features.
Whether in evaluation or 360° feedback, which promise transparency and equality for all in anonymous procedures before the no longer existing control authority and thus represent a "view from nowhere", so to speak; whether in educational reforms that shift self-administration and thus power supposedly back to the workers themselves - we are always dealing with a hard-to-see coincidence of de-hierarchisation and a new form of domination that could best be described as "domination without a master". But also the strange collapse of enjoyment and asceticism, as expressed in many norms of behaviour, especially of the younger generation, belongs to this context, where excess and the most rigid rules of behaviour seem to go hand in hand without any problems. Thus, in the seminar we will also explore the question of how the Corona crisis and the social reaction to the virus are to be located in this context.
With this focus on concrete social phenomena of the present, the seminar also wants to help outline possible topics for research projects.
The seminar is intended as a reading seminar. The focus is on the joint development of text comprehension and discussion. The texts of the seminar plan are to be read in advance by all seminar participants. This reading also counts as a performance record.
Active participation, reading, protocols, Paper where required for the curriculum.
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