2012: Rainald Goetz and Diedrich Diederichsen, “mehr” / “more”
Rainald Goetz and Diedrich Diederichsen, “mehr” / “more”
Berlin Mosse Lecture
https://mosselectures.wisc.edu/berlin/
Thursday, 3 May 2012, 19:00 CET
Senatssaal of Humboldt University
Unter den Linden 6
1. Stock
10117 Berlin
GERMANY
Sponsored by:
[mosse] LECTURES an der humboldt-universität zu berlin
The Mosse Foundation
Global Mosse Lecture Series
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Institut für deutsche Literatur
Humboldt University
Moderator: Joseph Vogl (Humboldt University)
Rainald Goetz: Nach der doppelten Promotion in den Fächern Geschichte und Medizin Autor von Theaterstücken, Romanen, Musikalben, Blogs, Internet-Tagebüchern und Essays, in denen u.a. Stoffe aus der Psychiatrie (Irre, 1983), der Wissenschaft (Kontrolliert, 1988), der Technobewegung (Rave, 1998), der Zeitgeschichte (Krieg, Festung 2003) und Kunstszene (Jeff Koons, 1982) verarbeitet werden. Auf das in Buchform publizierte Online-Tagebuch Abfall für alle (1999) folgten als Audio CD und Tagebuchessays veröffentlichte Blogs der „Nullerjahre“ (Klage, Loslabern, Schlucht, 2008, 2009), Berliner Literaturpreis (2012) Ein neuer Roman Johann Holtrup ist angekündigt.
Diedrich Diederichsen: Professor für Theorie, Praxis und Vermittlung von Gegenwartskunst an der Akademie der bildenden Künste in Wien, Kulturjournalist, Kunst-, Literatur- und Musikkritiker, zuletzt erschienene Buchpublikationen u.a.: Musikzimmer. Avantgarde und Alltag (2005), Eigenblutdoping. Selbstverwertung, Künstlerromantik, Partizipation (2008), Kritik des Auges. Texte zur Kunst (2008).
Photo Credit: Niels Leiser for the Mosse Lectures
His research and teaching comprises literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, media and aesthetics, cultural and political theory. Recent research focuses on the history of financial economy, literature and economics, and the “poetics of knowledge” – the study of the relationships and interactions between forms of knowledge and poetic or aesthetic figures. He is the director or principal investigator of a range of research projects including “The Knowledge of Literature” (PhD-Net), “Small Forms in the History of Literature and Sciences” (Research Training Group), and “Matters of Activity: Image Space Material” (Cluster of Excellence).
Joseph Vogl published more than a hundred articles and book chapters, as well as numerous books and monographs. Among his most important written works are the monographs Ort der Gewalt. Kafkas literarische Ethik (1990); Kalkül und Leidenschaft. Poetik des ökonomischen Menschen (2002); Über das Zaudern (2007; On Tarrying, 2011). Besides his research in literature, cultural and media studies, he is well known for his intensive work on modern and present-day finance and economics, analyzing finance theories from the perspective of cultural history. This work culminated in his books Das Gespenst des Kapitals (2010; The Specter of Capital, 2014), Der Souveränitätseffekt (2015; The Ascendancy of Finance, 2017) and Kapital und Ressentiment. Eine kurze Theorie der Gegenwart (2021; Capital and Ressentiment: A Brief Theory of the Present, 2022), which received wide recognition in the fields of cultural studies as well as economics, and initiated a public debate. Further workings include translations from French to German (Deleuze, Lévi-Strauss, Lyotard) and numerous interviews on TV with Alexander Kluge (see Soll und Haben. Fernsehgespräche, 2009; Senkblei der Geschichten. Gespräche, 2020).
He was awarded the Günther Anders Prize for Critical Thinking (2022). For his book Der Souveränitätseffekt (The Ascendancy of Finance) Vogl was on the shortlist for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2015 in the category of non-fiction. In 1988 he received the Translation Prize for the Promotion of Franco-German Relations (DVA Foundation) for his translations of key works of modern French philosophy.
