Edited by Martin Renz and Julius Schwarzwälder
Present whenever people act together and yet never seen for what they do, spaces of appearance come in many guises: a car crash in Vienna, a discussion forum in Dresden, a baker’s queue in Paris, an art festival in Shiraz, an unbuilt house in Istanbul, a law court in Berlin, a photograph from Arkansas. Taking their cue from Hannah Arendt’s famous concept, the case studies in this volume, written in close collaboration, examine how the perceptive standards of a given political situation may subtly change or consolidate. Supported by a wealth of images, this volume demonstrates how the concept can be activated for innovative research ‒ especially in cases where an understanding of aesthetics and politics needs to go beyond their analogization.
All participants underwent an intensive year of workshops and discussions.
Dorothea Douglas, PhD Candidate of the Research Training Group “Organizing Architectures”, also participated and is represented in the volume with her essay Proceeding Through Steps: The Political Aesthetics of Legal Subjectivity in the Amtsgericht Mitte, Berlin.
English
282 pages
transcript Verlag, Bielefeld
1st Edition, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839406847
Proceeding Through Steps. The Political Aesthetics of Legal Subjectivity in the Amtsgericht Mitte, Berlin, in: Spaces of Appearance. Aesthetics and Politics After Analogy, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2025, S. 160 – 183
Essay by Dorothea Douglas