Talk
Our current socio-political discourses are informed by terms like ‘post-factual’, ‘alternative facts’ and ‘populism’. Emotions and affects have more than ever entered into our debating culture. Emotional impulses rule our decisions on right or wrong, while rational arguments seem to be losing their impact. What are the effects of emotionalised politics on our society? Is art competing with politics for affective force, or is it in fact developing into a rational counterbalance? How much affect can democracy bear and how much affect does art need? From diverse academic and artistic positions, this panel will approach issues of the power, force and pitfalls of emotions in art and politics.
With
Ute Frevert, historian, director of the research area “History of Emotions“ at the Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung Berlin
Ulrich Rasche, director
Daniel Tyradellis, philosopher, curator
Moderation Susanne Burkhardt, editor Deutschlandradio Kultur
In cooperation with Deutschlandradio Kultur