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CRPLA Seminar - Critical Theory in the Digital Age
Critical Theory in the Digital Age
Friday 8 March 2024, 1 pm – 5 pm, S2.77 (Cowling Room), Social Sciences Building, and on MS TeamsLink opens in a new window
Ever since its beginnings, Critical Theory has been concerned with the constitution of human subjectivity. Its proponents have understood this constitution as a process between individuals and society that changes historically. In this symposium, we will explore how social imperatives today form and deform human faculties – sensually and intellectually – and critically investigate the extent to which the work of early Frankfurt School theorists (Adorno, Marcuse, Benjamin, and others) enables us to shed light on these contemporary processes.
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1 – 1.50 pm |
Alexandra Schauer (Institute for Social Research, Goethe University, Frankfurt): ‘Man without a World: On the Disappearance of the Idea of Social Agency’ |
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2 – 2.50 pm |
Lars Rensmann (University of Passau): ‘On the Politics of Unreason in the Digital Age: Reading Social Media and Reconfigurations of Authoritarianism with Adorno’ |
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Break |
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3.10 – 4 pm |
Sebastian Tränkle (Free University, Berlin): ‘Deformation or Perfection. On the Dialectic of Aesthetic Self-Formation’ |
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4.10 – 5 pm |
Antonia Hofstätter (University of Warwick): ‘Atrophied Images: Childhood as Critique in T.W. Adorno’ |
Please join us in person or on MS Teams (use this linkLink opens in a new window).
This event is co-organised by the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts and the Warwick Workshop for Interdisciplinary German Studies
Contact: Antonia Hofstätter (antonia.hofstatter@warwick.ac.uk) or Christine Achinger (c.e.achinger@warwick.ac.uk)