Issue #25 Radicalism as Ego Ideal: Oedipus and Narcissus

Radicalism as Ego Ideal: Oedipus and Narcissus

Diedrich Diederichsen

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Issue #25
May 2011










Notes
1

Brigitte Werneburg, “Lieber artig als großartig” Tageszeitung, April 5, 2008. See .

2

See Juliane Rebentisch, "Im Glashaus," Texte zur Kunst, no.70 (June 2008), p. 230–33; and "From One Island to Another — Conversation between Juliane Rebentisch and Renée Green," in Renée Green, Ongoing Becomings — Retrospective 1989-2009 (Lausanne and Zürich: Musée cantonal des Beaux Arts Lausanne / JRP Ringier, 2009, 72–85.

3

“Radicalism and art are a contradiction of terms to American museum culture (academic Puritan agitprop of the Hans Haacke variety notwithstanding). It will be a cold day in hell when you see a major American museum mount a show of the cultural production of the Weather Underground or Black Panthers. The Situationists are OK; they're French.” Mike Kelley, “Death and Transfiguration,” in John C. Welchman, ed., Foul Perfection (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003), 145.

4

See Michael Krebber—Apothekermann, ed. Karola Grässlin and Susanne Pfleger (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2000); and Michael Krebber, Außerirdische Zwitterwesen / Alien Hybrid Creatures (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008).

5

See Yilmaz Dziewior, Cosima von Bonin—Bruder Poul sticht in See (Cologne: Du Mont, 2002).

6

Florian Illies, “Aufruf zum Vatermord,” Die Zeit, January 31, 2010. See .

7

In Germany in 2010 and 2011, a series of cases of systematic and epidemic child abuse were discussed with a great deal of publicity. They were alleged to have occurred since World War II in two very different places: repressive educational institutions, especially those of the Catholic Church but of other churches as well, and elite liberal boarding schools like the Odenwaldschule, which subscribed to liberal, progressive educational ideals.

8

Craig Owens, “Posing,” in Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), 201–217.

Translated from the German by James Gussen.

An earlier version of these themes has been discussed in a lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, at the invitation of Su-Ran Sichling and Peter Bömmels.