Age Rage. Das Zeitalter der Wut und Alter als queer-feministischer Schauplatz.
Nanna Heidenreich
Art Sciences and Art Education, Transcultural Studies
2023S, scientific seminar (SEW), 4.0 ECTS, 2.0 semester hours, course number S04600
Description
On the one hand, the research field of gerontology - the science of age(ing) - is inspired by feminist theory. At the same time, age as a category of difference, like gender and sex, is not yet really thought through, and the normative timelines on age also inscribe themselves in queer theories and practices.
Ageing itself, as Swedish gerontologist and gender studies researcher Linn Sandberg points out, is always thought of in binary terms, either as decline or success, that is, as decay, or as successful ageing, which equates to non-ageing. Both are entangled in ageism.
Ageism, which is the devaluation of aging, particularly involves a strong gender-specific component: the devaluation of age in women has a different weight than in men. Old women are, according to the common description, desexualized and no longer perceived 'as women'. Persons read as men, however, likewise lose certain gendered attributions.
This disconnection between age(s) and gender offers an exciting starting point for queering gender. In addition, hormone replacement therapy for *trans persons and persons in (peri)menopause is basically identical - and at the same time negotiated completely separately. The currently observable politicization of menopause - which is not called "the change" for nothing - especially along class and race, also offers an interesting approach for a queerfeminist engagement with that timeline called 'age'.
So how does rage get involved here? On the one hand, historian Pankaj Mishra has called the present an "age of anger," a diagnosis that has been criticized from a feminist perspective as gender-blind and at the same time taken up as highly productive. On the other hand, getting older is a thing - anger about ageism meets possibly other forms of anger and outrage, also political, at different stages of life. Or does it? At a minimum, however, RAGE describes receptors in the cell membrane that respond to AGE, glycated proteins that arise in the human body due to aging, among other things.
The seminar will include: wild cross-reading, from Thomas Mann's menopause novella to queerfeminist theories, Mishra's social theses, Preciado's pharmaceutical pornography theses, trans-revenge sci-fis like Torrey Peter's "Infect your friends and your loved ones" or Yvonne Rainer's film "Privilege" (1985). And - discussions and shared search movements, transversal and queer.
Examination Modalities
will be announced in class
Dates
16 March 2023, 15:30–18:30 Seminar Room 21
30 March 2023, 15:30–18:30 Seminar Room 21
20 April 2023, 15:30–18:30 Seminar Room 21
04 May 2023, 15:30–18:30 Seminar Room 21
11 May 2023, 15:30–18:30 Seminar Room 21
01 June 2023, 15:30–18:30 Seminar Room 21
15 June 2023, 10:30–13:30 Seminar Room 22
22 June 2023, 15:30–18:30 Seminar Room 20
Course Enrolment
Via online registration
Curriculum Allocation
Art Education: subject kkp (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 067/003.80
Art Education: subject kkp (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: IT: Bachelorseminar Wissenschaftliche Praxis 067/003.85
Art Education: subject kkp (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 067/003.80
Art Education: subject kkp (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Seminar aus dem Bereich Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften 067/003.25
Art Education: subject kkp (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 067/003.80
Art Education: subject tex (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 071/003.80
Art Education: subject tex (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: IT: Bachelorseminar Wissenschaftliche Praxis 071/003.85
Art Education: subject tex (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 071/003.80
Art Education: subject tex (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Seminar aus dem Bereich Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften 071/003.25
Art Education: subject tex (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 071/003.80
Art Education: subject dae (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 072/003.80
Art Education: subject dae (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: IT: Bachelorseminar Wissenschaftliche Praxis 072/003.85
Art Education: subject dae (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 072/003.80
Art Education: subject dae (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Seminar aus dem Bereich Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften 072/003.25
Art Education: subject dae (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 072/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 074/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: IT: Bachelorseminar Wissenschaftliche Praxis 074/003.85
Art Education: subject dex (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 074/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Seminar aus dem Bereich Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften 074/003.25
Art Education: subject dex (additional subject): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 074/003.80
TransArts - Transdisciplinary Arts (Bachelor): Theoretical foundations: Theoretical foundations 180/003.01
Expanded Museum Studies (Master): Electives: Transcultural Studies 537/080.16
Stage Design (2. Section): Kunsttheorie und Kulturwissenschaften: Transkulturelle Studien 542/207.10
Media Arts: Specialisation in Transmedia Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie und Geschichte : Kulturwissenschaften 566/208.15
Media Arts: Specialisation in Digital Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie, Geschichte: Kulturwissenschaften 567/208.15
Studies in Art and Culture (Master): Electives Area 1: Transcultural Studies 568/005.09
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Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (Master): Study Areas: Study Area 6: Transcultural Studies 569/020.06
Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (Master): Elective Field: only students without a bachelor's degree in CDS: from Study Areas 1-6 569/080.10
Design: Specialisation in Graphic Design (2. Section): Theoretical Basics: Humanities 576/203.02
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Conservation and Restoration (2. Section): Geisteswissenschaften: Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte 588/204.10
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Free Electives out of Scientific and Research Practice 605/202.80
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