Wolfgang Welsch, “Ästhetisierungsprozesse – Phänomene, Unterscheidungen, Perspektiven”, in: ders., Grenzgänge der Ästhetik, 1996: 20.
Ibid, 20f.
Ibid, 21.
Ibid, 55.
For this position see Rüdiger Bubner, “Ästhetisierung der Lebenswelt”, in Ästhetische Erfahrung (Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 1989), 150.
This is Axel Honneth’s justified objection to this past discussion: See Axel Honneth, “Ästhetisierung der Lebenswelt”, in Desintegration: Bruchstücke einer soziologischen Zeitdiagnose (Frankfurt/Main: Fischer, 1994), 29f.
See Gerhard Schulze, The Experience Society (London: Sage, 1995).
For a critique on Schulze, see Honneth, “Ästhetisierung der Lebenswelt”, 37f.
For the more recent tendency, see Luc Boltanski & Ève Chiapello, The New Spirit of Capitalism (London: Verso, 2007).
On the justified critique of a reduction of life to the “disposable material of an individual who is proud of his autonomy”, see the discussion in Kritik der Lebenskunst, eds. Wolfgang Kersting and Claus Langbehn (Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 2007), 8.
See Michel Foucault, “What is Critique”, in The Politics of Truth, ed. Sylvere Lotringer (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2007), 44.
See Axel Honneth, “Diagnose der Postmoderne”, in Desintegration, 18f.
Because there is a tension between the individual and the social good, which are nevertheless interwoven, both sides cannot be reconciled with each other by relegating them to two separate spheres, as Richard Rorty suggests when he locates self-creation in the private sphere and solidarity in the public sphere. See Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (Cambridge/UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 13f., 142.
See the compact determination of “démocratie à venir” in Jacques Derrida, Rogues: Two Essays on Reason (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005), 86.
Claude Lefort, The Political Forms of Modern Society: Bureaucracy, Democracy, Totalitarianism (Cambridge/Mass: MIT Press, 1986), 305.
See also Jacques Rancière, Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics (London & New York: Continuum, 2010), 34.
Claude Lefort, Marcel Gauchet, “Über die Demokratie: Das Politische und die Instituierung des Gesellschaftlichen”, in Autonome Gesellschaft und libertäre Demokratie, ed. Ulrich Rödel (Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 1990), 102.
Ibid, 104.
Ibid.
Jacques Rancière, Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 102.
Ibid, 113. The self-emasculation of power thus goes along with the naturalization of a specific economic order, a specific form of capitalism.
Ibid, 114.
Superhumanity, a project by e-flux Architecture at the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, is produced in cooperation with the Istanbul Design Biennial, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, and the Ernst Schering Foundation.
The text documents a lecture in which the author summarized some of the theses from her book The Art of Freedom. On the Dialectics of Democratic Existence (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016) for discussion.