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Barbarei der Arbeit

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Subject according curriculum
Dramaturgy, direction
Teachers
Dr. Benjamin Sprick
Semester
Wintersemester 2023/2024
Scope
Wednesdays, 14:00-15:30, start: 8.11.2023
Room
Wiesendamm - Raum 1.15 (Seminarraum 3)
Duration
1.5 Semesterwochenstunden
Description

'Work' is a diffuse category. Where does it begin, what marks its end? And how should work be 'appropriately' remunerated? Which authorities decide on the meaning of work, who denies it any justification? Such questions become particularly relevant in artistic contexts. A tension between economic reproduction and the creation of ideal meaning, which is anthropologically inherent in the concept of work itself, becomes effective here, leading to irresolvable contradictions. The seminar relates texts from philosophical labor theory to current symptoms of theatrical art production. Among other things, the aim is to search for forward-looking and sustainable forms of artistic work that have so far only been accessible in the mode of their experimental testing ...

Literature

Lisa Herzog, The rescue of labor. Ein politischer Aufruf, Berlin Hanser 2019; Axel Honneth, Der arbeitende Souverän. Eine normative Theorie der Arbeit, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2023; Anja Lemke / Alexander Weinstock, Kunst und Arbeit. Zum Verhältnis von Ästhetik und Arbeitsanthropologie vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Bielefeld: transcript 2014; Hans-Joachim Lenger, Marx zufolge. The Impossible Revolution, Bielefeld: transcript 2004.

Credits
2 Creditpoints
Comments

Among other things, the seminar serves to prepare a one-day artistic-scientific symposium at the TAH in February 2024.
A comprehensive reader with texts and a digital compendium with examples from theater practice will be made available via Moodle at the beginning of the seminar.

Please register for the seminar via email to Benjamin.sprick@hfmt-hamburg.de

Self-registration for the seminar via Moodle is also possible.

Modules
Modul Theorie Master Dramaturgie, Theorie 1