Toward an Aesthetic of Disruption - Benedikt Kuhn
12. Dez.
18:00 Uhr, C40.530
In the work of Bernard Stiegler, the term disruption denotes a diagnostic concept which aims to describe a critical condition of subjective experience and subjectivation in contemporary societies. Characterized by a remodelling of time-consciousness and perception as well as a severing between the links of individual and collective consciousness, this condition is an effect of the transformational powers of neoliberal capitalism and the synchronizing functions of a globalized techno-aesthetic regime. At the outset of a project which seeks to mediate Stiegler’s theory with resources from the philosophies of Immanuel Kant and Karl Marx, this presentation will discuss how such a mediation can be fruitful and what potentials and pitfalls it might yield. The focal point of the presentation - and of the project at large - consists in the thesis that Stiegler, Kant and Marx provide highly valuable elements of a critical aesthetics of the present. In a historical moment which seems to move us toward a myriad of disruptive aesthetics, the presentation will outline an idea of how to theoretically move toward an aesthetics of disruption which might work as an explanatory and critical toolbox.