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SUMMARY:LECTURE: The Gimmick as Aesthetic Judgement and Capialist Form
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CONTACT:Frau Helena Rose (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI))
DESCRIPTION:Frau Helena Rose (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI))
LECTURE: The Gimmick as Aesthetic Judgement and Capialist Form
Carte Blanche II - My Favourite Lecture
This talk explores the gimmick as both a form that simultaneously repels and attracts us and the judgment by which we express this ambivalent mixture of feelings. As both a compromised aesthetic form and equivocal aesthetic judgment stemming from the recognition of interlinked contradictions surrounding labour, time, and value, the gimmick offers us a surprisingly rich place to think about capitalist aesthetics and the intertwining of technique and enchantment therein.

SPEAKER
Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago

MODERATOR
Hanna Engelmeier, KWI

COORDINATORS
Julika Griem, KWI Director
Sabine Voßkamp, KWI Research Management

PARTICIPATION
Participation online via ZOOM. Please register via presse@kwi-nrw.de until December 11th, 2020.

ORGANIZER
Organized by the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI)
Tuesday, 15. December 2020
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