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Brill | Fink eBooks, Dec 22, 2023
transcript Verlag eBooks, Dec 31, 2014
Erschienen in: Versammlung und Teilhabe, Transcript 2014
transcript Verlag eBooks, Aug 8, 2022
transcript Verlag eBooks, Dec 31, 2016
Springer eBooks, Dec 5, 2015
spread-magazine.com , 2022
The text develops a possible "planetary epistemological turn " in todays feminist thought. This t... more The text develops a possible "planetary epistemological turn " in todays feminist thought. This turn is needed because, as postcolonial historian Dipesh Chakrabarty explains, ever since the entanglement of human and planetary history was established in the "racial capitaloscene" (cf. Vergès 2020), any theory of the political and the social, any philosophical or economic axiomatic, would have to embed itself in the planetary structure, rethink the dependent location of humans in the web of life, and connect with the concerns of the planet (cf. Chakrabarty 2019: 1-31).
For too long, feminism has subscribed to "human exceptionalism." But pandering to the modernist-progressivist paradigm to gain power in an eroding ecosystem seems anachronistic today. So here I want to share my obsession with you. Starting from the practices of a feminist eco-commoning, I dig out the eco-feminism of the 80s, combine it with aspects of New Materialism, and try to make the combination bear fruit for a notion of "planetary feminisms."
I understand the planetary alongside Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak as an anti-colonial concept of alterity, against the homogenizing global – a system that is radically "other" and at the same time ourselves (cf. Spivak 2012). Furthermore, I use concepts of the planetary, following Earth System Sciences and the dynamic co-dependence of non-humans and humans with their social and economic organization.
Empowement. Art and feminisms, 2022
From ecofeminism to planetary feminism
Der Welt eine neue Wirklichkeit geben
In many European societies, social cohesion is challenged by megatrends, such as globalization, d... more In many European societies, social cohesion is challenged by megatrends, such as globalization, digitalization, growing inequality, and migration. In addition – or in part as a consequence of those megatrends – our living together is confronted with increasing cultural diversity, a greater plurality of values and lifestyles, as well as a rise in populism, polarization and a loss of confidence in democracy. Recognizing that many European countries face these challenges, a number of important questions arise: What holds societies together? What must we do today so that this cohesiveness will remain present in the future? How can we foster social cohesion
Urbane Öffentlichkeiten und performative Künste
Erschienen in: Versammlung und Teilhabe, Transcript 2014
<i>As a practice, failure recognizes that alternatives<br> </i><i>are emb... more <i>As a practice, failure recognizes that alternatives<br> </i><i>are embedded already in the dominant and that power<br> </i><i>is never total or consistent; indeed failure can exploit<br> </i><i>the unpredictability of ideology and its indeterminate qualities.<br> </i>J. J. Halberstam <i>Revolutionaries are everywhere,</i><br> <i>but nowhere is there any real revolution.</i><br> Abdelkebir el-Khatibi The word resistance usually evokes images of struggle, of opposition, but also of power, of domination, and oppression. In its concrete manifestations, however, resistance is more of a process of trial and error; it is often a story of failures intersecting, weaknesses combining and of building precarious solidarities in times of crisis. In this sense, revolution is never a simple story of 'success'. This one-day conference aimed at exploring resistances as a multiplicity, as practices and modes of thinking that challenge normative values of success and failure. Resistances act on the mechanisms of power in particular places, in concerted actions, as well as in daily routines of living, being, working, imagining, and organizing. They can manifest as coalitions of the weak and dispossessed but also as coagulations in that in-between, uncomfortable space of the semi-peripheral. The panels investigated resistances in the decolonial queer context, the cultural field at large, protest politics, and sex work, and involved researchers alongside activists and other agents.
In der vorliegenden Promotion werden die Aktionsformen der ‚Αγανακτισμένοι‘ [Aganaktismenoi; gr. ... more In der vorliegenden Promotion werden die Aktionsformen der ‚Αγανακτισμένοι‘ [Aganaktismenoi; gr. fur Emporte/Indignados] auf dem besetzten ‚Syntagma-Platz‘ im Fruhjahr 2011 hinsichtlich ihres Verhaltnisses zur politischen und medialen ‚Reprasentation‘ untersucht. Vergleichbar mit der Besetzung zentraler Platze in Spanien durch die ‚Indignados‘, der Besetzung des Tahrir-Platz in Kairo oder den Occupy-Wall-Street-Protesten, besetzten die Aganaktismenoi fur zwei Monate den zentralen Athener Syntagma-Platz. Sie installierten eine Zeltstadt, hielten taglich Versammlungen ab, protestierten vor dem griechischen Parlamentsgebaude und kommunizierten uber Kanale der sozialen Medien. Zentrale Losungen waren „Reale Demokratie, jetzt!“ oder „Ihr reprasentiert uns nicht!“. In der internationalen Literatur sind uber die verschiedenen Occupy-Bewegungen (ob Spanien, Griechenland, New York, Tahrir, u.a.) Debatten entstanden, die den Zusammenhang zwischen Reprasentation und den Aktionsformen der Platz...
The Art of Being Many, 2016
The Art of Being Many, 2016
Griechenland im europäischen Kontext, 2015
veröffentlicht in herbst. Theorie zur Praxis 2016. Das Magazin zum steirischen herbst
veröffentlicht in Missy Magazine 04/2017
Brill | Fink eBooks, Dec 22, 2023
transcript Verlag eBooks, Dec 31, 2014
Erschienen in: Versammlung und Teilhabe, Transcript 2014
transcript Verlag eBooks, Aug 8, 2022
transcript Verlag eBooks, Dec 31, 2016
Springer eBooks, Dec 5, 2015
spread-magazine.com , 2022
The text develops a possible "planetary epistemological turn " in todays feminist thought. This t... more The text develops a possible "planetary epistemological turn " in todays feminist thought. This turn is needed because, as postcolonial historian Dipesh Chakrabarty explains, ever since the entanglement of human and planetary history was established in the "racial capitaloscene" (cf. Vergès 2020), any theory of the political and the social, any philosophical or economic axiomatic, would have to embed itself in the planetary structure, rethink the dependent location of humans in the web of life, and connect with the concerns of the planet (cf. Chakrabarty 2019: 1-31).
For too long, feminism has subscribed to "human exceptionalism." But pandering to the modernist-progressivist paradigm to gain power in an eroding ecosystem seems anachronistic today. So here I want to share my obsession with you. Starting from the practices of a feminist eco-commoning, I dig out the eco-feminism of the 80s, combine it with aspects of New Materialism, and try to make the combination bear fruit for a notion of "planetary feminisms."
I understand the planetary alongside Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak as an anti-colonial concept of alterity, against the homogenizing global – a system that is radically "other" and at the same time ourselves (cf. Spivak 2012). Furthermore, I use concepts of the planetary, following Earth System Sciences and the dynamic co-dependence of non-humans and humans with their social and economic organization.
Empowement. Art and feminisms, 2022
From ecofeminism to planetary feminism
Der Welt eine neue Wirklichkeit geben
In many European societies, social cohesion is challenged by megatrends, such as globalization, d... more In many European societies, social cohesion is challenged by megatrends, such as globalization, digitalization, growing inequality, and migration. In addition – or in part as a consequence of those megatrends – our living together is confronted with increasing cultural diversity, a greater plurality of values and lifestyles, as well as a rise in populism, polarization and a loss of confidence in democracy. Recognizing that many European countries face these challenges, a number of important questions arise: What holds societies together? What must we do today so that this cohesiveness will remain present in the future? How can we foster social cohesion
Urbane Öffentlichkeiten und performative Künste
Erschienen in: Versammlung und Teilhabe, Transcript 2014
<i>As a practice, failure recognizes that alternatives<br> </i><i>are emb... more <i>As a practice, failure recognizes that alternatives<br> </i><i>are embedded already in the dominant and that power<br> </i><i>is never total or consistent; indeed failure can exploit<br> </i><i>the unpredictability of ideology and its indeterminate qualities.<br> </i>J. J. Halberstam <i>Revolutionaries are everywhere,</i><br> <i>but nowhere is there any real revolution.</i><br> Abdelkebir el-Khatibi The word resistance usually evokes images of struggle, of opposition, but also of power, of domination, and oppression. In its concrete manifestations, however, resistance is more of a process of trial and error; it is often a story of failures intersecting, weaknesses combining and of building precarious solidarities in times of crisis. In this sense, revolution is never a simple story of 'success'. This one-day conference aimed at exploring resistances as a multiplicity, as practices and modes of thinking that challenge normative values of success and failure. Resistances act on the mechanisms of power in particular places, in concerted actions, as well as in daily routines of living, being, working, imagining, and organizing. They can manifest as coalitions of the weak and dispossessed but also as coagulations in that in-between, uncomfortable space of the semi-peripheral. The panels investigated resistances in the decolonial queer context, the cultural field at large, protest politics, and sex work, and involved researchers alongside activists and other agents.
In der vorliegenden Promotion werden die Aktionsformen der ‚Αγανακτισμένοι‘ [Aganaktismenoi; gr. ... more In der vorliegenden Promotion werden die Aktionsformen der ‚Αγανακτισμένοι‘ [Aganaktismenoi; gr. fur Emporte/Indignados] auf dem besetzten ‚Syntagma-Platz‘ im Fruhjahr 2011 hinsichtlich ihres Verhaltnisses zur politischen und medialen ‚Reprasentation‘ untersucht. Vergleichbar mit der Besetzung zentraler Platze in Spanien durch die ‚Indignados‘, der Besetzung des Tahrir-Platz in Kairo oder den Occupy-Wall-Street-Protesten, besetzten die Aganaktismenoi fur zwei Monate den zentralen Athener Syntagma-Platz. Sie installierten eine Zeltstadt, hielten taglich Versammlungen ab, protestierten vor dem griechischen Parlamentsgebaude und kommunizierten uber Kanale der sozialen Medien. Zentrale Losungen waren „Reale Demokratie, jetzt!“ oder „Ihr reprasentiert uns nicht!“. In der internationalen Literatur sind uber die verschiedenen Occupy-Bewegungen (ob Spanien, Griechenland, New York, Tahrir, u.a.) Debatten entstanden, die den Zusammenhang zwischen Reprasentation und den Aktionsformen der Platz...
The Art of Being Many, 2016
The Art of Being Many, 2016
Griechenland im europäischen Kontext, 2015
veröffentlicht in herbst. Theorie zur Praxis 2016. Das Magazin zum steirischen herbst
veröffentlicht in Missy Magazine 04/2017