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SUMMARY:Aesthetics and Politics in 2020: A Workshop
DESCRIPTION:On which grounds can we claim\, in 2020 and with scholarly co
 nfidence\, that a literary text has “progressive” or “r
 ight-wing” affinities? How does a live performance’s evi
 dently intended critique of racist or homophobic dispositifs
  actually succeed (or fail)? What justifies the declaration 
 that a film unfolds a revolutionary sensibility—or more pr
 agmatically\, contributes to working through unprecedented so
 cial crisis? Questions such as these could not be more topic
 al today against the backdrop of new fascisms and heated pub
 lic conflict in an age of heightened emergency and precarity
 \, fear\, anger\, and hate. In the German context\, resonant inq
 uiries have flared up in recent debates around individual au
 thors’ or texts’ uncanny proximities with rightwing move
 ments but also in a resurgence of interests in (progressive\,
  egalitarian\, anti-fascist) activist political aesthetics. 
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