13. Juni 2017
Universität der Künste Berlin
Hardenbergstraße 33, 10623 Berlin
Raum 110

In Anlehnung an seinen jüngst erschienenen Essayband Cultural Revolution, Aesthetic Practice after Autonomy sprach Sven Lütticken über das Verhältnis von „Kultur“ und „Ästhetik“ und fragte nach ästhetischen Praktiken, von denen auch in Zeiten der Neoliberalisierung des „Kulturbetriebs“ das linksmarxistisch geprägte Konzept der „kulturellen Revolution“ ausgehen könnte.

Sternberg Press: 

In this collection of essays, art historian and critic Sven Lütticken focuses on aesthetic practice in a rapidly expanding cultural sphere. He analyzes its transformation by the capitalist cultural revolution, whose reshaping of art's autonomy has wrought a field of afters and posts. In a present moment teeming with erosions—where even history and the human are called into question—Cultural Revolution: Aesthetic Practice after Autonomy reconsiders these changing values, for relegating such notions safely to the past betrays their possibilities for potential today.

Lütticken discusses practices that range from Black Mask to Subversive Aktion, from Krautonomy to Occupy, from the Wet Dream Film Festival in the early 1970s to Jonas Staal's recently established New World Academy. Within these pages Scarlett Johansson meets Paul Chan, Walid Raad, and Hito Steyerl, and Dr. Zira from Planet of the Apes mingles with the likes of Paul Lafargue and Alexandre Kojève.

Link zum Buch: Sternberg Press