Art and the Capitalist Economy of Desire
First broadcast: Mon 05.02.2018, 11.06 Uhr MEZ
Rerun: Wed 21.02.2018, 21.00 Uhr MEZ
A Broadcast in collaboration with: Jan Sieber
In 2017–18, the Fellowship Program for Art and Theory focuses on works that deal with loss of rationality and censorship as signifiers of our age, with strategies of escape from the visibility regime of contemporary societies, and with the libidinous economy of desire in capitalism.
The new fellows Marianna Christofides, belit sağ, Julie Sas and Jan Sieber presented their work and their plans for the coming months in the context of the Start Up Lectures 2017–18 on 6 October 2017.
The Büchs’n’Radio broadcast in January is dedicated to the presentation of Jan Sieber.
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Jan SIEBER (1982 – 2018) studied cultural sciences, philosophy and art theory at the University of Bremen, Leuphana University Lüneburg, and at Middlesex University London. Between 2011 and 2017 he worked as an academic associate at Berlin University of the Arts, where he completed his doctoral thesis in the field of Aesthetic Theory. The emphases of his research lie in Aesthetics, Psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, Cultural Theory, and contemporary French Philosophy.
Following a brief but serious illness Jan Sieber died on 22 May 2018.