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While currently identitarian ideologies and essentialist notions of identity that tend to simplify and reduce life experience to simple factors are globally regaining massive attention, it becomes inevitable to recollect the thorough discussions of identity concepts of the past three decades. It also calls for an ever keener awareness of and capacity to deal with the complexity and diversity of the world we live in. Artists play a major role in the potential reflection and transformation of perceptions and conceptions of the world – musicians, dancers, choreographers, spoken word artists, performance artists, actors, also fine art, installation, media artists or photographers alike. “Performing critical identity” points to performative practices of artists that bring to the fore a critical (self-)awareness and (self-)positioning concerning identification and belonging. Social identities such as gender, sexuality, race, class, dis/ability, age or non/religiosity are closely linked to the historical, social, regional and political dimensions of their formation. From this perspective, identities are hardly one-dimensional but complex and intersectional, and are rather to be thought of as a process of identification and belonging than as a consistent essence.As different, maybe contradictory among themselves, as they are, the performative works of artists such as Lerato Shadi, Liad Hussein Kantorowicz, Nora Chipaumire, Shu Lea Cheang, Zanele Muholi, Ohno Kazuo, Anohni Hegarty, Neo Hülcker, “We’re Muslim. Don’t Panic” or of theatre collectives such as RambaZamba and Thikwa Theater in Berlin or Theater Hora in Zurich, to name but a very small quite random selection of artists, share a critical approach towards hegemonic norms or stereotyping of identities and their representations, and empower diversity.This edition puts a specific focus on the performativity of the aesthetic practices, and wants to explore different artistic approaches, strategies, tactics and perspectives of artists when they address identity issues, when they target power relations and structures of oppression and inequality, when they empower concepts of diversity. This Call for Papers invites academic as well as artistic contributions that delve into case studies of artists performing critical identity or into more general theoretical reflections on the subject. Contributions can relate to, but are not limited to following topics: - intersectionality - subversion - (self-)empowerment - resistance - subalternity - exploitation - manipulation - (anti-)feminism - appropriation - cultural globalisation - transculturality - hybrid identities - collectives - body - stage - audience - de-/construction of the difference of aesthetic genres and of high/popular culture - capitalism - colonialism - (re-)production of exclusion

Performative Practices --- Critical Identity --- Diversity --- Intersectionality --- Performativity of aesthetics

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aking up the challenges of the datafication of culture, as well as of the scholarship of cultural inquiry itself, this collection contributes to the critical debate about data and algorithms. How can we understand the quality and significance of current socio-technical transformations that result from datafication and algorithmization? How can we explore the changing conditions and contours for living within such new and changing frameworks? How can, or should we, think and act within, but also in response to these conditions? This collection brings together various perspectives on the datafication and algorithmization of culture from debates and disciplines within the field of cultural inquiry, specifically (new) media studies, game studies, urban studies, screen studies, and gender and postcolonial studies. It proposes conceptual and methodological directions for exploring where, when, and how data and algorithms (re)shape cultural practices, create (in)justice, and (co)produce knowledge.

PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General. --- epistemology, performativity, mediatisation, materiality, criticality. --- Performing arts.

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While currently identitarian ideologies and essentialist notions of identity that tend to simplify and reduce life experience to simple factors are globally regaining massive attention, it becomes inevitable to recollect the thorough discussions of identity concepts of the past three decades. It also calls for an ever keener awareness of and capacity to deal with the complexity and diversity of the world we live in. Artists play a major role in the potential reflection and transformation of perceptions and conceptions of the world – musicians, dancers, choreographers, spoken word artists, performance artists, actors, also fine art, installation, media artists or photographers alike. “Performing critical identity” points to performative practices of artists that bring to the fore a critical (self-)awareness and (self-)positioning concerning identification and belonging. Social identities such as gender, sexuality, race, class, dis/ability, age or non/religiosity are closely linked to the historical, social, regional and political dimensions of their formation. From this perspective, identities are hardly one-dimensional but complex and intersectional, and are rather to be thought of as a process of identification and belonging than as a consistent essence.As different, maybe contradictory among themselves, as they are, the performative works of artists such as Lerato Shadi, Liad Hussein Kantorowicz, Nora Chipaumire, Shu Lea Cheang, Zanele Muholi, Ohno Kazuo, Anohni Hegarty, Neo Hülcker, “We’re Muslim. Don’t Panic” or of theatre collectives such as RambaZamba and Thikwa Theater in Berlin or Theater Hora in Zurich, to name but a very small quite random selection of artists, share a critical approach towards hegemonic norms or stereotyping of identities and their representations, and empower diversity.This edition puts a specific focus on the performativity of the aesthetic practices, and wants to explore different artistic approaches, strategies, tactics and perspectives of artists when they address identity issues, when they target power relations and structures of oppression and inequality, when they empower concepts of diversity. This Call for Papers invites academic as well as artistic contributions that delve into case studies of artists performing critical identity or into more general theoretical reflections on the subject. Contributions can relate to, but are not limited to following topics: - intersectionality - subversion - (self-)empowerment - resistance - subalternity - exploitation - manipulation - (anti-)feminism - appropriation - cultural globalisation - transculturality - hybrid identities - collectives - body - stage - audience - de-/construction of the difference of aesthetic genres and of high/popular culture - capitalism - colonialism - (re-)production of exclusion

The arts --- Performative Practices --- Critical Identity --- Diversity --- Intersectionality --- Performativity of aesthetics

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Judith Butler zählt zu den bedeutendsten zeitgenössischen Denker*innen im Bereich der Geistes-, Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften sowie der Gender Studies und der Queer Theory. Darüber hinaus ist ihr Beitrag zur politischen Philosophie kaum zu unterschätzen. Dieser Band versammelt - neben einem Originaltext von Butler und einem Roundtable-Gespräch - Artikel ausgewiesener Expert*innen, die aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven die Dimensionen des Politischen in Butlers Arbeiten kritisch würdigen. Schwerpunkte sind das Verhältnis von Philosophie, Theorie und politischer Praxis, die Konstitution politischer Subjektivität, die Möglichkeiten politischer Handlungsfähigkeit sowie das emanzipatorische Potenzial performativer Körperpraktiken. »Butlers Philosophie schärft den Blick einerseits für die globalen Zusammenhänge politischen Handelns, andererseits für die Verwundbarkeit des menschlichen Körpers, die das ethische Verständnis sowie politische Verpflichtung hinsichtlich eines lebbaren Lebens begründet.« Anna Orlikowski, Jahrbuch Politisches Denken 2018 »Das Buch bietet eine fundierte und umfassende Einführung in Butlers Werk.« http://www.frauensolidaritaet.org, 5 (2019) »Ein Band, der Judith Butlers Philosophie des Politischen in bemerkenswerter Art und Weise zugänglich macht. Butlers Beitrag zur politischen Philosophie wird nach der Lektüre wohl niemand mehr unterschätzen.« Johannes Ungelenk, Zeitschrift für Philosophische Literatur, 6/3 (2018) »Der Band [stellt] eine der ersten deutschsprachigen Veröffentlichungen in diesem Feld dar, das bislang im englischsprachigen Raum stärkere Aufmerksamkeit erfuhr. Er erweitert den deutschsprachigen Forschungsstand um eine entscheidende Auseinandersetzung mit den späteren Konzepten Butlers.« Mareike Gebhardt, Femina Politica, 2 (2018) »Die transformative Kraft von Butlers Denken wird in den einzelnen Artikeln eindrucksvoll weitergeführt.« Bettina Zehetner, WeiberDiwan, Sommer 2018 »Dieser empfehlenswerte Sammelband behandelt das Verhältnis von Philosophie, Theorie und politischer Praxis, die Konstitution politischer Subjektivität, die Möglichkeiten politischer Handlungsfähigkeit und das emanzipatorische Potenzial performativer Körperpraktiken. Die transformative Kraft von Butlers Denken wird in den einzelnen Artikeln eindrucksvoll weitergeführt.« Bettina Zehetner, www.frauenberatenfrauen.at, 3 (2018) Besprochen in: www.lehrerbibliothek.de, 3 (2018), Dieter Bach Diplomatisches Magazin, 4 (2018)

Judith Butler; Philosophie; Politik; Theorie; Gender; Performativität; Geschlecht; Politische Philosophie; Gender Studies; Queer Studies; Politische Theorie; Philosophy; Politics; Theory; Performativity; Political Philosophy; Political Theory --- Gender Studies. --- Gender. --- Performativity. --- Philosophy. --- Political Philosophy. --- Political Theory. --- Politics. --- Queer Studies. --- Theory.

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Politician Aldo Moro was abducted and killed in 1978 by the terrorist organization Red Brigades. The media then stylized Moro as a «state martyr». The volume deals with the highly topical question concerning the performativity of this concept in the tension between democratic state and terrorism and reconstructs a crucial phase of post-war time policy in Italy on the basis of media sources on the Moro case. What performs a term from Christian antiquity within modern socio-political discourses? What changes has the term "martyr" undergone in European religious and cultural history? On the basis of these questions, the study opens up an interdisciplinary theoretical horizon to understand the role of religious motives in socio-political con-texts. It brings a central new dimension to the secularization debate, which sees secularization as a new configuration of politics and religion.

Christian martyrs --- Political violence --- Religion --- Politics --- Media --- Martyrdom --- Secularization --- Representation --- Performativity --- Aldo Moro --- Political aspects. --- Religious aspects. --- Moro, Aldo, --- Moro, Aldo, --- Assassination. --- Kidnapping. --- 1945-1976 --- Italy --- Politics and government --- Religion --- Politics --- Media --- Martyrdom --- Secularization --- Representation --- Performativity --- Aldo Moro