Coldness and Cruelty: Irony and Humor
Alexi Kukuljevic
Institute of Studies in Art and Art Education, Art Theory
2025S, scientific seminar (SEW), 4.0 ECTS, 2.0 semester hours, course number S05245
Description
S05245 - Coldness and Cruelty: Irony and Humor (SEW)
“The comic is the only possible mode of conceiving of the law, in a peculiar combination of irony and humor.” – Gilles Deleuze
The title of this seminar alludes to Gilles Deleuze’s small book, Coldness and Cruelty, in which he provocatively approaches the writings of the Marquis de Sade and Leopold Sacher-Masoch as the work of an ironist and a humorist respectively. Irony and humor are two ways of creating distance, of disidentifying the subject from the immediacy of affect, of feeling, and separating form from content. Irony and humor, like sadism and masochism, are two ways of relating to the law and to the constraint that the law imposes upon the desiring subject. Taking Deleuze’s book as a point of departure to explore the ironic and the humorous, in this seminar we have occasion not only to read Deleuze but engage his sources which range from Plato to Freud, from Kant to Lacan.
20.03.2025 - 14:00 bis 17:00 | Seminarraum 23 (VZA7, EG)
03.04.2025 - 14:00 bis 17:00 | Seminarraum 20 (VZA7, 5.OG)
10.04.2025 - 14:00 bis 17:00 | Seminarraum 20 (VZA7, 5.OG)
15.05.2025 - 14:00 bis 17:00 | Seminarraum 20 (VZA7, 5.OG)
22.05.2025 - 14:00 bis 17:00 | Seminarraum 20 (VZA7, 5.OG)
05.06.2025 - 14:00 bis 17:00 | Seminarraum 09 (OKPV, 1.OG)
12.06.2025 - 14:00 bis 17:00 | Seminarraum 10 (OKPV, 1.OG)
Dates
03 April 2025, 14:00–17:00 Seminar Room 20
10 April 2025, 14:00–17:00 Seminar Room 20
15 May 2025, 14:00–17:00 Seminar Room 20
22 May 2025, 14:00–17:00 Seminar Room 20
05 June 2025, 14:00–17:00 Seminar Room 9
12 June 2025, 14:00–17:00 Seminar Room 10
Course Enrolment
From 03 February 2025, 00:00
Via online registration
Curriculum Allocation
Art Education: subject kkp (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: aus Kunsttheorie 067/003.20
Art Education: subject kkp (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 067/003.80
Art Education: subject kkp (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 067/003.80
Art Education: subject kkp (Enhancements study): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Seminar aus dem Bereich Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften 067/003.25
Art Education: subject kkp (Enhancements study): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 067/003.80
Art Education: subject tex (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 071/003.80
Art Education: subject dae (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 072/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 074/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 074/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (Enhancements study): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Seminar aus dem Bereich Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften 074/003.25
Art Education: subject dex (Enhancements study): 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: Art Theory 537/080.12
Stage Design (2. Section): Kunsttheorie und Kulturwissenschaften: Kunsttheorie 542/207.03
Media Arts: Specialisation in Transmedia Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie und Geschichte : Kunsttheorie 566/208.13
Media Arts: Specialisation in Digital Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie, Geschichte: Kunsttheorie 567/208.13
Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften (Master): Electives Area 1: Art Theory 568/005.05
Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften (Master): Electives Area 2: Art Theory 568/006.05
Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (Master): Study Areas 4-6: Study Area 4: Philosophy 569/022.04
Design: Specialisation in Design and Narrative Media (2. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Fundamentals: Humanities 576/203.02
Design: Specialisation in Communication Design (2. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Humanities 577/203.02
Conservation and Restoration (2. Section): Geisteswissenschaften: Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte 588/204.10
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Art Theory, Cultural Studies, Art History, Philosophy 605/202.01
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Free Electives out of Scientific and Research Practice 605/202.80
Design: Specialisation in Applied Photography and Time-based Media (2. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Humanities 626/203.02
Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (Bachelor): Philosophy: Deepening / Application 700/003.20
Co-registration: possible
Attending individual courses: possible