Talks on Curatorial and Artistic Practice: Simon Strick
A series of talks organised by the OnCurating Academy Berlin and Dorothee Richter
Talk
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Simon Strick: „10 YEARS IN THE AMERICAN FASHOSPHERE“
This lecture presents a meme-centric timeline of rightwing online agitation in the past 10 years, from obscure messageboards to Trump’s 2nd (or 3rd) presidency. Paraphrasing Adorno that „fascism is obsolete but up to date“, it will trace various rearticulations of old fascist ideology in the new guises of digital culture. Rightwing agitation, and a reactionary reworking of political and popular culture, will be shown as the current mainstream of the digital public sphere, a set of cultural conventions and discourses that dominate lifeworlds, attentions, and sensibilities far beyond the limits of what has been called the „alt-right fringe“. The talk will draw on traditions of media and critical theory to come up with assessments of what this means for our reactionary present.
The series ‘Talks on Curatorial and Artistic Practice’ by the OnCurating Academy Berlin and Dorothee Richter, continues at Radialsystem from December 2024, carving out space for critical curatorial thinking as well as new perspectives and formats in the context of curatorial practices. The OnCurating Academy Berlin is an international postgraduate programme and platform that aims to strengthen the community of emerging curators, artists, and cultural workers.
The focus of the series builds upon the platform and the OnCurating postgraduate programme, and aligns with goal of (further) developing cooperative and interdisciplinary working methods. Curating means the creation of innovative structures toward the presentation of cultural artefacts through collaboration. In curatorial practice, art, digital media, design and architecture overlap in new ways that require constant reflection.
Cast
Talk
Simon Strick
Biographien
Simon Strick is a scholar of Cultural, Media and Gender Studies. He received his PhD from Humboldt University with a thesis on pain, sentimentalism and biopolitics; the book American Dolorologies was published with SUNY Press in 2014. He has held positions at Humboldt University, Paderborn University, JFK-Institute Berlin, ZfL Berlin and the University of Virginia. His monograph Rechte Gefühle: Affekte und Strategien des digitalen Faschismus (2021) received the Hans Bausch Media Prize and its analyses of online fascist spaces and their political impact has been a widely discussed. Together with Kat Köppert (HGB Leipzig), he currently pursues the VW-Project Digital Blackface at University of Potsdam. Together with Susann Neuenfeldt and Werner Türk, he founded the performance group PKRK, which is active in Berlin theatres since 2009.
Programme
Upcoming Talks
11 04 2025 Simon Strick
25 04 2025 Veronika Kracher
02 05 2025 Dimitri Vilensky
09 05 2025 Nora Sternfeld / Oliver Marchart
16 05 2025 Vanina Saracino
Language
In English
Credits
Media partnerships Radialsystem: The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz - die tageszeitung, tip Berlin.
Simon Strick: „10 YEARS IN THE AMERICAN FASHOSPHERE“
This lecture presents a meme-centric timeline of rightwing online agitation in the past 10 years, from obscure messageboards to Trump’s 2nd (or 3rd) presidency. Paraphrasing Adorno that „fascism is obsolete but up to date“, it will trace various rearticulations of old fascist ideology in the new guises of digital culture. Rightwing agitation, and a reactionary reworking of political and popular culture, will be shown as the current mainstream of the digital public sphere, a set of cultural conventions and discourses that dominate lifeworlds, attentions, and sensibilities far beyond the limits of what has been called the „alt-right fringe“. The talk will draw on traditions of media and critical theory to come up with assessments of what this means for our reactionary present.
The series ‘Talks on Curatorial and Artistic Practice’ by the OnCurating Academy Berlin and Dorothee Richter, continues at Radialsystem from December 2024, carving out space for critical curatorial thinking as well as new perspectives and formats in the context of curatorial practices. The OnCurating Academy Berlin is an international postgraduate programme and platform that aims to strengthen the community of emerging curators, artists, and cultural workers.
The focus of the series builds upon the platform and the OnCurating postgraduate programme, and aligns with goal of (further) developing cooperative and interdisciplinary working methods. Curating means the creation of innovative structures toward the presentation of cultural artefacts through collaboration. In curatorial practice, art, digital media, design and architecture overlap in new ways that require constant reflection.
Cast
Talk
Simon Strick
Biographies
Simon Strick is a scholar of Cultural, Media and Gender Studies. He received his PhD from Humboldt University with a thesis on pain, sentimentalism and biopolitics; the book American Dolorologies was published with SUNY Press in 2014. He has held positions at Humboldt University, Paderborn University, JFK-Institute Berlin, ZfL Berlin and the University of Virginia. His monograph Rechte Gefühle: Affekte und Strategien des digitalen Faschismus (2021) received the Hans Bausch Media Prize and its analyses of online fascist spaces and their political impact has been a widely discussed. Together with Kat Köppert (HGB Leipzig), he currently pursues the VW-Project Digital Blackface at University of Potsdam. Together with Susann Neuenfeldt and Werner Türk, he founded the performance group PKRK, which is active in Berlin theatres since 2009.
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