Central to the workshop is a systematic and historical analysis of marginal figures, things, cultures and fields of knowledge, as well as religious, political, cultural or economical groups, which are considered marginal in relation to the prevailing society.

We will deal with (I.) the crises, processes, events, rites and techniques that are instrumental in producing the marginality of specific persons, things, cultures and fields of knowledge in the first place. (II.) This requires a critical revision of the analysis of space – the relation of centre and periphery, the undecided states of liminality, transition and intermediacy, processes of inclusion and exclusion, of eviction and migration, the spatial configurations of the social, the relation of ergon and parergon. (III.) It is of high interest to analyse the constitutive role and the multiple functions of social, political, technical, discursive, economic and cultural marginality with regard to the dominant culture, economy, language, society, way of life, and to the canonical and prevalent forms of knowledge. (IV.) There is finally the marginal perspective itself – being lost, insignificant, invisible, abandoned, decoupled – that should be examined. This includes the manifold possibilities generated by the marginal perspective as for example in counter-cultures, artful reallocations, cunning aesthetics, sly uses of commodities, subversive practices, irritations, disturbances and disruptions of order and revolutionary movements.

Poster

Program

27.4.2012
13:00
Dunkle Entelechie
Joseph Vogl
14:00
Der Fluch der Arbeit. Elemente einer ökonomischen Zoologie
Iris Därmann
15:00
Piraten! Die Ökonomien des Beutemachens in der Antike und die Schwierigkeit ihrer Verortung im Schema Zentrum/Peripherie
Friedrich Balke
16:30
Bemessungsgrundlage. Metrologie-Geschichten
Anna Echterhölter
17:30
Gibt es eine Kultur der Armut? Zur Frage der Erzeugung von Sinn im Kontext der Marginalität
Hans-Peter Hahn
18:30
Wie die andere Hälfte lebt. Minimaler Lebensstandard im 19. Jahrhundert
Bernhard Kleeberg
28.4.2012
10:00
Die Evidenz des Anderen. Soziologische Exklusionsdarstellungen zwischen Wissenschaft und Literatur
Sina Farzin
11:00
Der Teufelspakt in der Zuckerfabrik. Narrative postkolonialer Wirtschaftsbeziehungen im argentisnischen Nordwesten
Kirsten Mahlke
12:30
Altes Eisen. Trödelökonomie im Realismus
Ulrike Vedder
13:30
Die Macht der Liste. Über Klassiker und deklassierte Literatur
Ethel Grace Matala de Mazza