Beyond 'good' or 'bad'?


The Seminar will take a closer look at the work of Antoine Hennion, a french sociologist who has been working e.g. on taste, music, drug users and advertising und who developed a sociology of attachment, that attempts to describe ‘subject-networks’ and their aesthetical appeal: „Instead of focusing on capacities inherent in a subject, this approach attends to the tactics and techniques which make possible the emergence of a subject as it enters a ‘dispositif’.“ (Hennion, 1999) This will allow the investigation of multiple „mediators“ that perform a central role within ANT, the so-called Actors-Network-Theory. Furthermore it allows to investigate the relations between artistic and scientific practices.

Exploring and representing projects in small groups; 80% attendance; active collaboration in form of research and presentations, reading the literature and preparation of introductory notes.

limited number of participants