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SUMMARY:The Politics of Shamelessness
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LOCATION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Campus Außerhalb : Online (Zoom) & Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI), Gartensaal
CONTACT:Frau Helena Rose (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI))
DESCRIPTION:Frau Helena Rose (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI))
The Politics of Shamelessness
Book Presentation with David Keen
It is one of the more remarkable paradoxes of the present, and perhaps a signature trait of our time: as the redemptive virtues of social shaming are being rediscovered, a new politics of shamelessness is on the rise. Contemporary vocabulary accommodates “microaggressions” and other real and perceived slights, institutions and companies offer sensitivity training, and the artfully cultivated awareness of even the minutest forms of bias has given rise to an enlightened patois that, rather than undermining social distinctions, on some occasions even bolsters them. Show me how you speak, and I can tell you what your credentials are.

How do decision-makers manipulate the shame of others to fuel their own performative shamelessness? And how can this trend be countered? In Shame: The Politics and Power of an Emotion, David Keen offers a wide-ranging global survey of the uses and abuses of a formidable affect.

Thursday, 17. July 2025
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