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The Power of Narratives in Propaganda
The Power of Narratives in Propaganda

Muriel Fischer (ed.), Sandra Frimmel (ed.), ...

Global Narratives of Russian Disinformation

From the Cold War to the present day, we can observe how (pro-)Russian narratives are regionally tailored, internationally disseminated and appropriated by various political, economic or cultural actors for their own purposes.While some narratives might originate from literary fantasy, science fiction or national myths, others draw on historical narratives and reproduce them. Russia often claims an anti-imperialist, anti-fascist or post-colonial intention in order to conceal its own imperialism and fascism. The contributions in this book document these narratives in their...
  • Russia
  • intelligence sercive
  • analytics of power
  • propaganda
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Dieter Mersch

Digital disrupture

We really need an analysis of algorithmic conditions and their paradoxes and ambiguities that gives them an adequate framework and horizon. But instead we currently seem to be finding an algorithmic solution of the algorithmic, much as digital solutions are being offered for the problems of the digital public sphere, in the way that IT corporations, for example, use exclusively mathematical procedures to evaluate and delete “fake news,” inappropriate portrayals, or the violation of personal rights. This tends to result in a circularity that leaves the drawing of boundaries and raising of barriers solely to programming, instead of restoring them to our ethical conscience and understanding of what the social could mean today. The machine, by contrast, remains alien to any mechanical limitation—just as its inability to decide lies in the impossibility of self-calculation. The nucleus of digital culture should instead be sought where the cultural of culture is located:...

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Topics
  • Color and meaning

    Color and meaning

    Who is afraid of Red, Yellow, Blue…?

    • image and imagery
    • semiotics and semiology
    • color
    • monochrome
    • chromatics / colour science
  • Wissen-Nicht-Wissen

    Wissen-Nicht-Wissen

    • potentiality
    • astonishment
    • poetology of knowledge
    • epistemology
    • experiment
    • poetics
    • idleness
    • history of knowledge
    • literary studies
    • ignorance and non-knowledge
  • THINK ART? THINK ART!
  • Choreographing multitudes

    Choreographing multitudes

    • crowd psychology
    • social networks
    • social movements
    • protest movements
    • swarm model
    • crowd

 

»… Consistently Abused and Forced…«
»… Consistently Abused and Forced…«

Kati Kroß

Christoph Schlingensief's »Freakstars 3000«

When non-disabled artists such as Jérôme Bel or Christoph Schlingensief in their productions work with actors who, in hegemonic discourse, are referred to as disabled, they almost invariably face criticism over the exploitation and voyeuristic exhibition of these people. Bel’s Disabled Theater anticipated such reservations and took a good deal of wind out of its critics’ sails by having the performers themselves raise these issues on stage and report on their families’ reactions to the piece. Nevertheless, the question whether...
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  • aesthetics
  • disability studies
  • Jérôme Bel
  • performing arts
  • identity
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Humanity is a metahuman concept.

Rolf Bossart, Milo Rau

Humanity is a metahuman concept.

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  • art theory
  • transhumanism
  • artistic practice
  • re-enactment
  • postmodernism
  • realism