Article: Theorieträume der Kulturwissenschaft
Abstract
My short article is a critical comment on Hartmut Böhme’s position paper „Perspectives of cultural studies in historical and contemporary analytical perspective“. I share Böhme’s conviction that research projects in the broad and blurred interdisciplinary field of culture studies must be grounded in a flexible theoretical plot. However, Böhme’s paper does not meet this challenge. I try therefore to suggest two trajectories of significant importance in a paradigmatic way: On the one hand, the always controversial definitions of culture are scrutinized, thereby relying on a context-sensitive concept of „difference“ that allows grasping culture as a permanent and interference-prone process of translations. On the other hand, I focus on the impact, agency or effectualness of things against the background of a symmetrical anthropology and the actor-network-theory. In both cases, the analysis is orbiting around the notion of „cultural practices“ by demonstrating how tightly the media turn and the ontological turn are theoretically intertwined.
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Tanner, Jakob: Theorieträume der Kulturwissenschaft. In: Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, Jg. 1 (2016), Nr. 1, S. 76-83. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/3592.
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author = {Tanner, Jakob},
title = {Theorieträume der Kulturwissenschaft},
year = 2016,
doi = {10.25969/mediarep/3592},
volume = 1,
address = {Berlin},
journal = {Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift},
number = 1,
pages = {76--83},
}
Keywords
cultural sciences theory of culture difference cultural practices culture symmetrical anthropology actor-network theory thing theory material culture ontological turn medial turn Kulturwissenschaft Kulturtheorie Differenz kulturelle Praxis Kultur symmetrische Anthropologie Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie Dingtheorie Materielle Kultur ontologische Wende mediale Wende ontological turn medial turn
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