The panel brings into view strategies of positioning, as they are located, for instance, in the way of writing, in the access to canonical sources or in the deliberate staging of polyphony. Following on from discourses on situatedness, identity politics and relevance in the face of austerity measures, we will examine the position from which knowledge emerges. How do these manoeuvres of positioning relate to existing norms of expression in science and art and to what extent can they be understood as critical? Do these strategies address a different audience, and if so, do they reach it? What is the relationship of these speaking positions to history, and how do they locate themselves in the present?

Speakers

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Ensemblage. Towards affirmative forms of (aesthetic) critique
Ruth Sonderegger

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Ethnographic Polyphonies, Public Pedagogies, Queer (Ch)oral Histories
Thomas Richard Hilder

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Media Witnessing as Embodied Critique in the Age of AI Authoritarianism
Chris Tedjasukmana