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Joachim Fischer
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The subject of this project is the expressivity and symbolization of modern societies. It is assumed that human living beings, by nature being "unfathomable" and at the same time "not determined", fundamentally depend on "culture". These living beings stabilize themselves in their physis by culture and become simultaneously partially lucid for each other in their sensual mode of appearance. For this reason culture is always determined by a double aspect: through a "natural artificiality", or construction, on the one hand, which provides stabilization through the establishment of sensual and meaningful boundaries, and by "mediated immediacy" or "expressivity" on the other hand, through which "unfathomable" living beings bring themselves, in the establishment of sensual and meaningful boundaries, to "appearance", and express themselves "mediately". Especially applicable for the analysis of culture are therefore those theories, which a) reconstruct culture as a conjunction of sensuality and meaning (esthesiology and semiotics of culture), and b) don't reduce culture to language. The cultural theories of Helmuth Plessner, Max Scheler and Ernst Cassierer are characterized by a) systematically applying corporality and meaning to one another and b) thus an ability to systematically reconstruct other media of culture besides language, which entangle construction and expressivity in a particular logic (the innate logic of the picture, mythos, music, dance, mathematics, mysticism, etc.). This means that, in ever changing societal constellations, each new, incipient event of expression becomes the inexhaustible focus of sociologies of knowledge, religion, art and architecture. In the pictorial mode of conceptual formulas on the one hand, and in the picture arts and architecture which require commentarial words on the other hand, modern societies are positing themselves, fascinated, disputing, reflexive and controlled, in picture-concepts.
Simmels Exkurs über die Soziologie der Sinne. Zentraltext einer anthropologischen Soziologie, in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Themenheft: Soziologie der Sinne, 27. Jg., H. 2 2002, S. 6-13. The Historic Coincidence of Three Formula
of Human Existence: 'The man without qualities' (Musil), the 'relatively
unattached intellectual (Mannheim) and the 'eccentric positionality' (Plessner),
"Mann ohne Eigenschaften", "sozial
relativ freischwebender Intellektueller", "exzentrische Positionalität".
Musil, Mannheim, Plessner, (together with Dana Giesecke): Distinktionskunst
und Inklusionskunst. Zur Soziologie der Kunstkommunikation der Bundesrepublik
und der DDR, Der Potsdamer Platz aus der Perspektive
der Philosophischen Anthropologie, Exzentrische Positionalität. Der Potsdamer Platz/Leipziger Platz aus der Perspektive der Philosophischen Anthropologie, in: Ästhetik und Kommunikation, 33. Jg. (2002) H. 116, S. 87-95. Prager Straße. Zur utopischen Energie
eines sozialistischen Stadtensembles, http://www.rundkino-dresden.de/ Prager Straße in Dresden. Zur Architektursoziologie
eines utopischen Stadtensembles, Zur
Bedeutung der Philosophischen Anthropologie für die Architektursoziologie,
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