The series of three seminars will be dedicated to a close reading and discussion of three key texts of Critical Theory, Adorno’s texts ‘Commitment’ (‘Engagement’, 1962, in Noten zur Literatur III) and ‘Cultural Criticism and Society’ (Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft’, 1951, u.a. in Prismen), and Walter Benjamin’s ‘On the Concept of History’ (also known as ‘Theses on the Phi- losophy of History’, in the original: ‘Über den Begriff der Geschichte’, written 1940, first published in 1942). ‘Commitment’ discusses the dialectic between the ‘committted’ (to be distinguished from ‘propagandist’) and the ‘autono- mous’ artwork, commenting on Sartre, Brecht and Benjamin; ‘Cultural Criticism and Society’ plays on the double meaning of ‘Kulturkritik’ as critique of culture (or of civilization) or/and the criticism of cultural artefacts, and their relation- ship. Adorno points to a criticism of cultural artefacts that is committed to the progress of culture/civilization while refusing to be happy and at ease with its actuality. Benjamin’s text entirely resists summing up, but needs no introduction; at its centre it contains, amongst other things, a critique of the optimism of the labour movement.
Marcel Stoetzler is a lecturer in Sociology at Bangor University, Wales, UK. He works on social and political theory, intellectual history and historical sociology, and has lately concentrated on various aspects of modern anti- semitism, especially its interconnections with liberalism and nationalism and the emergence of the discipline of sociology. He has also published on feminist theory, critical theory (‘Frankfurt School’), Hannah Arendt, and Marx. His first book, The State, the Nation and the Jews. Liberalism and the Anti- semitism Dispute in Bismarck’s Germany was published in 2008 by the University of Nebraska Press. He serves on the editorial board of Patterns of Prejudice of which he has edited a special issue (May 2010) on Modern Antisemitism and the Emergence of Sociology.
Maumaus
Avenida António Augusto de Aguiar, 148 - 3º C
1050-021 Lisboa, Portugal
Monday to Friday, 10h00 to 13h00,
14h30 to 19h00
Tel: + 351 21 352 11 55
maumaus@maumaus.org
Current:
Independent Study Programme
Call 2023
Until 04.09.2022
Upcoming:
Manthia Diawara
AI: African Intelligence
Cinema Palace
28.11.2022
19h30
Commissioned by Serpentine, MUBI and PCAI Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative, as part of Serpentine's Back to Earth project.
Manthia Diawara
Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom
Sharjah Biennial 15
07.02. – 11.06.2023
Manthia Diawara
A Letter from Yene
Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto
14.03.2023
Current:
Seminar
Amanda Boetzkes
Realism Without Authority
01.04, 04.04.2022
10h–13h, 14h–17h
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Registration is free but limited to the number of seats available. Please send an email with a short CV to admin@maumaus.org by 24.03.2022. Confirmation of registration will be sent by email. The seminar will be in English.
Lumiar Cité
Rua Tomás del Negro, 8A
1750-105 Lisboa, Portugal
Wednesday to Sunday, 15h00 to 19h00
or by appointment.
Tel: + 351 21 755 15 70
lumiar.cite@maumaus.org
Loretta Fahrenholz
Circle Navel Nil
24.04. – 27.06.2021
24.06 | 18h00 Online conversation with Sabeth
Buchmann, Loretta Fahrenholz and Jürgen Bock
Current:
Anna Schachinger
Allover
08.10. – 11.12.2022
07.10 | 18h00 Circulating Salt, Ayami Awazuhara
08.10 | 16h00 Opening of the exhibition
Current:
Willem Oorebeek
Obstakles
17.12.2022 – 19.03.2023
extended until 26.03.2023
Upcoming:
Cosima von Bonin
Boy at Work
15.04. – 23.07.2023
15.04 | 17h00 Opening of the exhibition
20.07 | 19h00 Talk by Diedrich Diederichsen
Co-production:
Alejandro Cesarco
Other Recent Examples
Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz
24.03. – 24.09.2023
Collaboration:
The Educational Web
Kunstverein in Hamburg
01.04. – 06.08.2023
Closed 24, 25, 31 December and 1 January
Arne Kaiser and Jürgen Bock
In cooperation with Lumiar Cité:
Tiffany Chung
Thu Thiêm: an archaeological
project for future remembrance
08.06. - 08.09.2019
Johann Jacobs Museum
In co-production with Lumiar Cité:
Alejandro Cesarco
Other Recent Examples
24.03. - 24.09.2023
Artium Museum
The Educational Web
31.03. - 06.08.2023
Kunstverein in Hamburg
Maumaus/Lumiar Cité is funded by República Portuguesa – Cultura/Direção-Geral das Artes. With the support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and Junta de Freguesia do Lumiar