Final Issues: Endings in Modern Intellectual History

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Final Issues: Endings In Modern Intellectual History

Veranstalter
Yvonne Albers, Exczellencluster 2020 Temporal Communites; Moritz Neuffer, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Ilse-Zimmermann-Saal)
Ausrichter
Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Ilse-Zimmermann-Saal
Veranstaltungsort
Pariser Str. 1
Gefördert durch
EXC 2020 Temporal Communities
PLZ
10719
Ort
Berlin
Land
Deutschland
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
10.10.2024 - 11.10.2024
Website
https://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltungen-detail/items/final-issues-endings-in-modern-intellectual-history.html
Von
Moritz Neuffer, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung

Workshop organized by Yvonne Albers (EXC 2020 Temporal Communities, FU Berlin) and Moritz Neuffer (Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung)

Final Issues: Endings In Modern Intellectual History

Histories of political, intellectual, literary and aesthetic movements are often told through documents of their beginnings: Manifestos, declarations, and programs testify to what groups, avant-gardes or collectives stand for, what they want to achieve, and what they oppose. The importance of ‘beginnings’ and the practices and narratives they entail have been emphasized in cultural theory and historiography alike: “A beginning not only creates but is its own method because it has intention,” Edward Said wrote in his study 'Beginnings: Intention and Method' in 1975.

Yet, in contrast to the clarity of beginnings, end(ing)s seem much harder to grasp. This is not least due to the fact that the late and final stages of political-intellectual projects are often underdocumented, as many avant-gardes and collectives in history disperse, fade out, or lose their social and intellectual coherence gradually. Studies on endings, understood as a set of intentional practices and politics are thus rare to find. One example has been given by French sociologist René Lourau, who in 1980 collected final documents from a variety of groups for his book on the 'Autodissolution des avant-gardes': from Dada to the Situationists, from the Sex Pistols to numerous journals and magazines, Lourau tried to show how and to what purpose endings were narrated and justified, and how they served as communicative acts in their political and cultural contexts.

Starting from such observations, the workshop focuses on concrete textual and medial representations of endings in modern cultural and intellectual history. Our working hypothesis is that materialized representations of endings give expression to temporal experiences of individuals and collectives, shedding light on the self-given interpretations of their own past, present, or future afterlives. Hence, the workshop aims to transfer Edward Said’s questions on beginning—on 'what is special about beginning as an activity or a moment or a place' — to its opposite, asking how we can reconstruct endings, theorize them and read them as interventions into the present.

Programm

Thursday, Oct 10

14.00-14.30 Yvonne Albers and Moritz Neuffer: "Il faut savoir terminer". On Autodissolutions

14.30-16.00
Julia Soytek (Hamburg): “Invest Your Money in Dada!” Dadaist Endings between Dissolution and Durability

Johanne Mohs (Berlin): Never-ending Story? Oulipo and the End of its Offshoot ALAMO

Chair: Patrick Eiden-Offe (ZfL)

16.30–18.00
Eric-John Russell (Potsdam): “The Situationist International spoke, and history confirmed it”

Morten Paul (Essen): “We must Get Rid of Freudo-Marxism”. Ends of the Repressive Hypothesis, ca. 1976

Chair: Yvonne Albers (EXC 2020)

18.15-19.45
Kate Eichhorn (Boston): Dispatches from the After-Revolution (Keynote)

Chair: Moritz Neuffer (ZfL)

Friday, Oct 11

9.30-11.00
Ivana Perica (Berlin): “No end, but a new beginning”: Oto Bihalji-Merin as editor of a state-representative art magazine in post-war Yugoslavia

Mariam Elashmawy (Berlin): A Stillborn Relaunch: Narrating al-Ma'rifa and its Endings

Chair: Hanan Natour (EXC 2020)

11.15-12.45
Gregory Jones-Katz (Frankfurt/Essen): Imagined Deaths of Theory in America

Simon Godart (Berlin): On the End of Poetik & Hermeneutik

Chair: Eva Geulen (ZfL)

14.00-16.00

Anouk Luhn (Berlin): Ending Change

Julian Klinner (Tübingen): Daily Life Has Grown Up. Der Alltag and its Final Issue

Chair: Hagen Verleger (Kiel/Berlin)

Kontakt

neuffer@zfl-berlin.org, yvonne.albers@fu-berlin.de

https://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltungen-detail/items/final-issues-endings-in-modern-intellectual-history.html