Pop Congress 2015
COMPARED TO WHAT? On the Relation between Normativity and Subversion in Pop Cultural Contexts
Keynotes: Hans-Christian Dany, Diedrich Diederichsen, Christian Höller, Chantal Mouffe
Questions regarding the currency and relevance of the concept of subversion in contemporary pop are at the center of the 7th annual conference of the "Popular Culture and Media" division within the German Association for Media Studies (GfM). If we are to follow the diagnosis that subculture, negation, dissidence and autonomy were once significant reference figures for a pop discourse that currently appears to be largely void of any political brisance, then the question of the possibilities and limits of subversion for pop culture is all the more urgent. On the one hand, the increasing commodification of deviant tendencies under capitalist conditions seems to be making the concept of subversion obsolete as a critical category of popular cultures. On the other hand, pop's supposedly thorough integration of calculated individual irritations suggests a restoration of the anti-totalitarian tendencies of the concept of subversion. The fact that a critique of the logic of this development in turn establishes an order that stabilizes an alternative in relation to this logic appears at once to be an opportunity and a problem.
In an attempt to mediate between various approaches to the problem of a subverted norm on the one hand and normalized subversion on the other, the conference strives for an entanglement of social, political, aesthetic and economic perspectives on popular cultures and their subverting potential. The goal of the conference is to debate the following questions in a multi-disciplinary manner: what makes up the subversive power of contemporary popular cultures? Which normative variable is used to legitimize subversion for pop culture? What are the subject, object and forms of subversion? What understanding of difference does subversion imply? And not least: what is the relation of pop cultural subversion to the political and to politics?
ORGANIZATION POPKONGRESS 2015
Tobias Gerber und Katharina Hausladen
team@popkongress.de
www.popkongress.de
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29th 2015
2:00-2:30 p.m.
Welcoming address, introductory words
2:30-3:15 p.m. 1)
Drehli Robnik: " Es geht um...: Das aktuelle Ineinander einsichtiger Einbildungen in Inszenierungen der politischen Theorie und des Horrorfilms "
Moderation: Sabeth Buchmann
Language: German
3:15-4:00 p.m.
Marcus Maida: " How much is Subversion? Zur Revision der popkulturellen Subversionstheorie "
Moderation: Sabeth Buchmann
Language: German
COFFEE BREAK
4:15-5:00 p.m.
Thomas Ernst: " Studien der Subversion. Konzeption eines medienwissenschaftlichen Analysemodells "
Moderation: Charis Goer
Language: German
5:00-5:45 p.m.
Moritz Ege: " Subversiv, affirmativ und normativ? Ethnografische Notizen zum Umgang mit der Proll-Figur zwischen lokalen und hegemonialen Ordnungen "
Moderation: NN
Language: German
5:45-7:00 p.m.
KEYNOTE: HANS-CHRISTIAN DANY
Moderation: Tobias Gerber
Language: German
FRIDAY, JANUARY 30th 2015
10:00-10:45 a.m.
Pascal Jurt & Johannes Springer: " Krisenanalyse und popkulturelle Subversion "
Moderation: Ruth Sonderegger
Language: German
10:45-11:30 a.m.
Nina Stuhldreher: " When King Loot met King Ludd and King Crip joined the Rebecca Riots - Neurodiversität und die Kolonialisierung der Künste durch die Institutionalisierung von Subversion "
Moderation: Ruth Sonderegger
Language: German
COFFEE BREAK
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
KEYNOTE: DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN / CHRISTIAN HÖLLER " Unser Talk heißt so wie die ganze Konferenz "
Moderation: Katharina Hausladen
Language: German
LUNCH
RESEARCH WORKSHOP (Moderation: Katja Kaufmann and Mario Anastasiadis)
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Lectures:
1) Heinrich Deisl : Wiensounds. Sound-Topografie Wiener Populärkultur seit 1976
2) Lena Hintze: Zur Kompositionsstrategie einer Geschichte der Gegenwart -
Rainald Goetz' Werkserie "Heute Morgen"
3) Melanie Ptatscheck: Suchtgenese und Selbstkonzept: Rekonstruktion
individueller Entwicklungsverläufe heroin-abhängiger Musiker
4) Reinhard Kopanski: NS-Symbolik und -Ästhetik in der "Schwarzen Szene"
5) Anita Hafner: Visuals. Kontextualisierung, Begriffsbildung, Verortung
SHORT BREAK
3:40-5:00 p.m.
Discussion of the lectures in groups
5:00-5:15 p.m.
Concluding plenary
COFFEE BREAK
5:30-6:15 p.m.
Carsten Winter: " Heimliche Freude an der Subversion von Ökonomie und Staat durch gewöhnliche Leute in unserer Musikkultur "
Moderation: Tobias Gerber
Language: German
6:15-7:00 p.m.
Roger Behrens: " Aufstand im Schlaraffenland. Oder: Subversion als Normativität "
Moderation: Katharina Hausladen
Language: German
SATURDAY, JANUARY 31st 2015
10:00-10:45 a.m.
Rada Bieberstein: " Reading Popular Culture and Subversion through Liminality "
Moderation: Charis Goer
Language: English
10:45-11:30 a.m.
Sofia Bempeza: " The flip side of the coin: Actionism and subversion within the context of 'conservative revolution' "
Moderation: Charis Goer
Language: English
COFFEE BREAK
11:45 a.m.-13:00 p.m.
KEYNOTE: CHANTAL MOUFFE
Moderation: Sonja Eismann
Language: English
LUNCH
2:15-3:00 p.m.
Yuanchen Zhang: " Chinesische Internetserien als Subversion? " Moderation: Moira Hille
Language: German
3:00-3:45 p.m.
Georg Spitaler: "' Cheers!' Zur Theoretisierung von Postfeminismus, Subversion und politischer Handlungsfähigkeit in Denice Bourbons 'Stories of a Fabulous Queer Femme in Action'"
Moderation: Moira Hille
Language: German
COFFEE BREAK
4:00-5:00 p.m.
AG-MEETING 2)
RÉSUMÉ
1) In the 45-minutes-lectures the time for discussion of the contributions is included.
2) The Pop Congress 2015 is the 7th annual conference of the Popular Culture and Media division (AG) within the German Association for Media Studies (GfM) . The subsequent plenary presentation serves both the discussion of the lectures/the congress and as an open session of the AG.
For further information please don't hesitate to contact us:
team@popkongress.de
Tobias Gerber and Katharina Hausladen (Team Pop Congress 2015)