Robert Pfaller
Biographic Data
| ID | 4226664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Pfaller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Pfaller |
| SIGNATURE | PFALLER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bureaucratie/Bureaucracy
Introduction
The Introduction explains the notion of interpassivity as the pleasure in letting others consume (instead of work) in one’s place. It illustrates the relevance and topicality of the concept. Crucial aspects of current "cultural capitalism" that sells not so much just goods but instead feelings and lifestyles, rely on a dimension of interpassivity: For example, the current popularity of off-road cars and so-called SUVs can be explained by the fact…
Little Gestures of Disappearance
There is a recurrent remark in many anthropological studies concerning ritual: the more people believe (for instance in their religion), the less they appear willing to follow this very religion’s rituals. This hostility reveals a question proper to the theory of interpassivity: Is it possible that people suspect ritual not to express their inner beliefs, but rather to replace them? Is ritual a vicarious agent that renders inner conviction superf…
Interpassivity
A radical criticism of current assumptions in the field of cultural theory today Why do people record TV programmes instead of watching them? Why do some recovering alcoholics let others drink in their place? Why can ritual machines pray in place of believers? Robert Pfaller advances the theory of 'interpassivity' as delegated consumption and enjoyment. Applicable to both art and everyday life, the concept allows him to tackle a vast range of phe…
Interpassivity
Interpassivity is a widespread, but mostly unacknowledged form of cultural behavior. It consists in letting others (other people, or animals, machines etc.) not work, but consume in one’s place. When certain people, for example, take care that others drink their beer for them, fotocopy or print texts out instead of reading them, let recording devices watch TV programmes in their place, use ritual machines that pray or believe for them vicariously…
In Shit We Stand United
In his Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud quotes a poem by Heinrich Heine: 'Selten habt Ihr mich verstanden/selten auch verstand ich Euch./Nur wenn wir im Kot uns fanden,/so verstanden wir uns gleich'. ('Rarely did you understand me, and rarely did I understand you; Only when we found ourselves in the muck did we understand each other at once.')In my contribution, I want to examine this ability of the excrement to function as a kind of univer…
In Medias Res
Sind wir wirklich so erotisch?
Die Vermessung des Ungeheuren
Gleichsam im Schatten seiner massenmedialen Präsenz baut Peter Sloterdijk seit nunmehr einem Vierteljahrhundert an einem philosophischen Werk, das heute – weit davon entfernt, abgeschlossen zu sein – in Umrissen als komplexes Ganzes sichtbar zu werden beginnt. Der Band versammelt erstmals Essays herausragender Intellektueller aus dem deutschsprachigen und internationalen Raum, die sich von Sloterdijks philosophischer Erhellung unserer Gegenwart i…
Interpassivity
Interpassivity is a widespread, but mostly unacknowledged form of cultural behavior. It consists in letting others (other people, or animals, machines etc.) not work, but consume in one’s place. When certain people, for example, take care that others drink their beer for them, fotocopy or print texts out instead of reading them, let recording devices watch TV programmes in their place, use ritual machines that pray or believe for them vicariously…
Sind wir wirklich so erotisch?
Die Vermessung des Ungeheuren
Gleichsam im Schatten seiner massenmedialen Präsenz baut Peter Sloterdijk seit nunmehr einem Vierteljahrhundert an einem philosophischen Werk, das heute – weit davon entfernt, abgeschlossen zu sein – in Umrissen als komplexes Ganzes sichtbar zu werden beginnt. Der Band versammelt erstmals Essays herausragender Intellektueller aus dem deutschsprachigen und internationalen Raum, die sich von Sloterdijks philosophischer Erhellung unserer Gegenwart i…
In Medias Res
Interpassivity
A radical criticism of current assumptions in the field of cultural theory today Why do people record TV programmes instead of watching them? Why do some recovering alcoholics let others drink in their place? Why can ritual machines pray in place of believers? Robert Pfaller advances the theory of 'interpassivity' as delegated consumption and enjoyment. Applicable to both art and everyday life, the concept allows him to tackle a vast range of phe…
Interpassivity
Interpassivity is a widespread, but mostly unacknowledged form of cultural behavior. It consists in letting others (other people, or animals, machines etc.) not work, but consume in one’s place. When certain people, for example, take care that others drink their beer for them, fotocopy or print texts out instead of reading them, let recording devices watch TV programmes in their place, use ritual machines that pray or believe for them vicariously…
In Shit We Stand United
In his Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud quotes a poem by Heinrich Heine: 'Selten habt Ihr mich verstanden/selten auch verstand ich Euch./Nur wenn wir im Kot uns fanden,/so verstanden wir uns gleich'. ('Rarely did you understand me, and rarely did I understand you; Only when we found ourselves in the muck did we understand each other at once.')In my contribution, I want to examine this ability of the excrement to function as a kind of univer…
Bureaucratie/Bureaucracy
Introduction
The Introduction explains the notion of interpassivity as the pleasure in letting others consume (instead of work) in one’s place. It illustrates the relevance and topicality of the concept. Crucial aspects of current "cultural capitalism" that sells not so much just goods but instead feelings and lifestyles, rely on a dimension of interpassivity: For example, the current popularity of off-road cars and so-called SUVs can be explained by the fact…
Little Gestures of Disappearance
There is a recurrent remark in many anthropological studies concerning ritual: the more people believe (for instance in their religion), the less they appear willing to follow this very religion’s rituals. This hostility reveals a question proper to the theory of interpassivity: Is it possible that people suspect ritual not to express their inner beliefs, but rather to replace them? Is ritual a vicarious agent that renders inner conviction superf…
Philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Politics (3 works)