Dr. Christoph Haffner public lecture „Materialist Philosophy of Contemporary Art“
Thursday, May 8, at 2:30 pm
Balkono teatras, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Gedimino pr. 42, Vilnius, 1st floor)
In contemporary discourses of art theory and culture studies, new accounts of materialism abound. They are in general opposed to the historical materialism of the Marxist tradition: they understand cultural production within a naturalist framework. The history of Marx-inspired art theory, in contrast, was highly prolific in articulating sophisticated connections between artistic forms and their material conditions – their social, political and economic contexts. In this talk, I would like to criticize the potentials and the short-comings of this tradition in order to actualize its kernel for a contemporary philosophy of artistic production.
Dr. Christoph Haffter is post-doctoral researcher in philosophy of music at University of Basel and the Hochschule für Musik Basel. He studied philosophy and musicology in Basel, Paris, Berlin and New York and defended a PhD thesis entitled Musical Materialism – a philosophy of contemporary music. He has taught aesthetics and philosophy of art at University of Fribourg and was editor of the journal Dissonance. Currently he is co-editor of online journal partisan-notes.com.
