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A radical criticism of current assumptions in the field of cultural theory today
Why do people record TV programmes instead of watching them? Why do some recovering alcoholics let others drink in their place? Why can ritual machines pray in place of believers?
Robert Pfaller advances the theory of 'interpassivity' as delegated consumption and enjoyment. Applicable to both art and everyday life, the concept allows him to tackle a vast range of phenomena: culture, art, sports and religion.
Pfaller criticises dominant assumptions, offers an escape from prevailing ideologies and exposes how cultural capitalism promotes commodities with the promise of happiness.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Interpassivity Today
- The Work of Art that Observes Itself
- The Parasites of Parricide. Living Through the Other when Killing the Father: Interpassivity in Brothers Karamazov
- Little Gestures of Disappearance. Interpassivity and the Theory of Ritual
- Interpassivity and Misdemeanours. The Art of Thinking In Examples and the Zizekian Toolbox
- Against Participation
- Matters of Generosity: On Art and Love
- What Reveals the Taste of the City. On Urbanity
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Über den Autor / die Autorin
Robert Pfaller is Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at the University of Art and Industrial Design of Linz, Austria. His publications are mainly in German but his most recent book is in English The Pleasure Principle in Culture: Illusions without Owners (Verso, 2014). His German books include Umazano Sveto in Cisti Um. (Ljubljana: Analecta, 2009), Wofuer es sich zu leben lohnt. Elemente materialistischer Philosophie (Fischer, 2011), Das schmutzige Heilige und die reine Vernunft. Symptome der Gegenwartskultur (Fischer, 2008), Die Ästhetik der Interpassivität. (Hamburg: philo fine arts, 2008) and Die Illusionen der anderen. Über das Lustprinzip in der Kultur (Suhrkamp, 2002).
Zusammenfassung
Why do people record TV programmes instead of watching them? Why are former alcoholics pleased to let other people drink in their place? Why can ritual machines pray in place of believers? Robert Pfaller advances the theory of 'interpassivity' as delegated consumption and enjoyment.
