On the Aesthetic Materiality of Thought Soumyabrata Choudhury Introducing a Heideggerian Resonance: Thinking at the Place of the Unthinkable Anyone familiar with Martin Heidegger’s works will hear the resonance of one of his well-known titles in that of the present essay. “Thinking, Evaluating, Enjoying” will no doubt remind the reader of the German philosopher’s text “Building Dwelling Thinking”. Let me spend a little …
On the Aesthetic Materiality of Thought Tanja Traxler & Reinhold A. Bertlmann Prologue On September 14th, 2015, only a few scientists noticed that this was the start of a new era in astronomy. Months later, after rigorous testing, it was published in February 2016 that the first direct observation of gravitational waves had been achieved by the Laser Interferometer …
Performative Strategies of Incompleteness and the Right to Bodily Integrity Sandra Noeth Taking a Breath Berlin, winter 2021. About a year and a half into a series of lockdowns and various limitations of public life. While negotiating the ever-changing rules and regulations related to the Covid-19 pandemic and their impacts on my own and other people’s bodies, new movement …
Con-fusions Between Movement and Linguistic Figures, Between Performance and Critique Krassimira Kruschkova Danced and spoken stories contaminate and comment on each other, they collapse into one another in the performance Shown and Told (2016) by American choreographer and dancer Meg Stuart and British writer and performance maker Tim Etchells. What shows and tells here are pointedly incomprehensible body and …
Stories on Artists Reading Theory Veronika Reichl1 Dreaming of cabbage – Sandy reads Heidegger Sandy is an artist. That means that she takes the form of things seriously. The form concerns every detail of her work: It concerns how Sandy prepares, how she starts and finishes. It concerns the material, the tools and the work space. It concerns how …
None but Fools1 Susanne Valerie Granzer The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. Shakespeare, As You Like It Act 5, Scene 1 Under cover … What is a fool? What hides behind the German word Narr, whose origin is etymologically not really known? If, uninhibited by academia, we jump …
Reinhold A. Bertlmann is a theoretical physicist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Vienna. His work spans quantum physics, entanglement, Bell inequalities, decoherence, quantum field theory and the foundations of quantum mechanics. He taught and supervised at the University of Vienna, organized conferences and workshops, and authored Anomalies in Quantum Field Theory as well as two books with Anton …
The Open Access University Press of the mdw mdwPress is the open access academic publisher of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. With this press, the mdw aims to increase the visibility of its research in all its diversity. Free from commercial motives, mdwPress makes research results freely accessible and reusable for the interested public. The …
The Open Access University Press of the mdw mdwPress is the open access academic publisher of the mdw–University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. With this press, the mdw aims to increase the visibility of its research in all its diversity. Free from commercial motives, mdwPress makes research results freely accessible and reusable for the interested public. The quality and …
