This week Erik Erlanson will present on the topic of "The aesthetic and the semiotic in relation to Erich Hörl’s notion of the techonological displacement of sense".
The paper deals with the hypothesis that in the twentieth century a partially new artistic regime (c.f. Rancière) develops, in which the work of art is identified primarily as an instance of semiosis. It asks the question, whether or not Riffaterre’s semiotic theory of poetry and Dufrenne’s phenomenological theory of the aesthetic experience constitute a point of heresy (c.f. Michel Foucault) within the same artistic regime or not. Erlanson deals with this against the background of Swedish art critic Ulf Linde’s writings on art in the 1960s and German media theorist Erich Hörl’s work on the discursive and material conditions of sense in the twentieth century.
The seminar is, as always, Wednesday at 10.00 – 12.00 (CET)
in Dacke (F3016V). The seminar is open for distance participants, contact us at ims@lnu.se, if you want to participate via an online platform.
Photo: 'Aurora - Connecting Senses’, Cristina Pop-Tiron & Signe Kjær Jensen
