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The two-term course will critically examine the concept of public art in the new post-social environments focusing particularly on the transformations of public space in the context of globalization, digitalization and climate change.
In the first term (Winter semester 2019/20) the course will pay special attention to three parallel processes that have decomposed the societies of the industrial modernity and brought about the post-social turn: the neoliberal dismantling of the social welfare state accomplished in the context of globalization; cultural reinterpretations and/or translations of the social and emergence of the identity politics; the expansion of the social into the non-human spaces and the interaction of the human and non-human agencies. In making sense of these transformations the participants will discuss broader range of topics from ”World system theory”, theory of globalization (I. Wallerstein, D. Harvey), post-colonial theory and the ”sociology of the post-social” (K. Knorr-Cetina). The main goal of the discussions in this term is to radically challenge the notions of a ”social meaning”, a ”social role”, or a ”social intervention” of (public) art.
The second term of the course will be held in summer semester 2020.
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