Oliver Marchart
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 446944 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Oliver Marchart |
| PRENOMES | Oliver |
| SOBRENOME | Marchart |
| ASSINATURA | MARCHART O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1632-4929 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The turn to the imagination
We are currently witnessing what we refer to in this Critical Exchange as ‘a turn to the imagination’. Across the academy and beyond, the concept of ‘imaginaries’is increasingly used to examine how the imagination is provoked, harnessed and dispersed to encourage or inhibit social, political, economic, technological and cultural transformation. Highlighting the need for critical reflection not only on the possibilities but also the limits of this…
Situating Castoriadis
Given that the recent turn to ‘imagination’ in social and cultural thought is not in all cases based on a clearly political outlook, it is recommendable to revisit Cornelius Castoriadis’s path-breaking political account of social imagination. However, even the latter, it is argued, must be confronted with an understanding of politics more in line with the tradition of political realism. In order to fully activate the political potentials of Casto…
Protest, Kunst, Imagination. Zur Dialektik von Autonomie und Heteronomie im künstlerischen Aktivismus
Der Beitrag untersucht das Verhältnis aktivistischer Kunst zu den Eigenlogiken des Kunstfelds einerseits und der Politik andererseits. Es wird postuliert, dass aktivistische Kunstpraktiken, sofern sie zwar in die Politik wechseln, aber teils doch Kunst bleiben, ein „dialektisches“ Verhältnis zu künstlerischem Autonomieanspruch einerseits und politischer Heteronomiezumutung andererseits entwickeln. Die Integration von Inseln der Autonomie in das R…
Konfliktuelle Kulturpolitik
Imagination und Entscheidung
Der Aufsatz kritisiert den unrealistischen Politikbegriff vieler der aktuell boomenden Theorien politischer Imagination. Mit dem Ziel der Entwicklung einer realistischen politischen Theorie der Imagination wird der Begriff der politischen Einbildungskraft mit dem der Entscheidung konterkariert und das Werk von Cornelius Castoriadis mit dem von Ernesto Laclau kontrastiert. Anhand einer Diskussion der Subjekt- und Entscheidungstheorie Laclaus in ih…
Conflictual cultural politics
In this exploratory paper, we discuss local cultural political tensions in Austria’s three largest cities (Vienna, Graz, and Linz). Against the backdrop of COVID-19, which hampered, yet also created new opportunities to host cultural events in public space, we analyze large-scale cultural events (Vienna and Graz), and a newly emerging cultural policy theme (Linz). Drawing on 30 qualitative interviews with cultural politicians, administrators, cul…
Konfliktuelle Kulturpolitik
The Sovereign Awakened
This article contrasts the liberal idea of a “sleeping sovereign” with the democratic one of a “sovereign awakened.” The right to protest is defended as an expression of popular sovereignty, envisaged as a right to popular “self-awakening” instigated by an imperative call of duty not reducible to a set of liberal individual rights. In contrast to some approaches of agonistic democracy, it is argued that democratically breaking the rules of the ga…
Institution and Dislocation
Institution and Dislocation
Marcuse's Contribution to Political Thought
Among theorists associated with the first generation of the Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse's position is singular in that he provides us with an unabashedly affirmative theory of politics as liberatory practice. The article discusses Marcuse's contribution to political thought by pointing out how, in particular, three aspects remain highly pertinent to contemporary thought: (a) his account of freedom as potentiality, to be actualized in politi…
Foucault und das Politische
Thinking Antagonism
Thinking Antagonism
Discover Ernesto Laclau's theory of antagonism and how it contributes to political and cultural thoughtErnesto Laclau (1935-2014) was one of the major theoretical voices on the Left. His concept of antagonism is the cornerstone of his theory of hegemony and the organising concept in his political ontology. Oliver Marchart presents the main features of this ontology and tracks the development of antagonism from German Idealism via Marx to today's …
Ordnungen des Politischen
Ordnungen des Politischen
Die Diskursanalyse der Essex School
Democracy, critique and the ontological turn
Ernesto Laclau
The globalization of art and the ‘Biennials of Resistance’
More than any other institution in the art field, biennials mediate the local, national and transnational. In this sense, biennials can be called 'hegemonic machines' that link the local to the global within the field of symbolic struggles for legitimation. In this article, a brief genealogy is presented to show how anti- and postcolonial biennials have contributed to the artistic decentralization of the West. From this history, we may conclude t…
Institution and dislocation
Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's theory is remarkable for bringing in a balance empirical analysis and philosophical considerations. The way this balance is reached is illustrated by discussing the main philosophical sources of Laclau's theory of space and antagonism. It is shown that Laclau's theory of social space relies on Husserl's phenomenology and critique of objectivism. Furthermore, it is shown in what way Laclau's differentiation betw…
Die Prekarisierungsgesellschaft. Prekäre Proteste. Politik und Ökonomie im Zeichen der Prekarisierung
Gesellschaft erscheint uns heute im flackernden Licht der Verunsicherung. Nicht erst seit der Finanzkrise erweisen sich stabil geglaubte Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnisse als prekär. Der Autor stellt die wichtigsten ökonomischen und soziologischen Theorien der Prekarisierung vor und zeigt: Prekarität hat die Gesellschaft in ihrer Gesamtheit erfasst. Wir leben in der Prekarisierungsgesellschaft. Aber was ist daraus zu schließen? Marchart beschreibt …
Die Prekarisierungsgesellschaft
Gesellschaft erscheint uns heute im flackernden Licht der Verunsicherung. Nicht erst seit der Finanzkrise erweisen sich stabil geglaubte Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnisse als prekär. Der Autor stellt die wichtigsten ökonomischen und soziologischen Theorien der Prekarisierung vor und zeigt: Prekarität hat die Gesellschaft in ihrer Gesamtheit erfasst. Wir leben in der Prekarisierungsgesellschaft. Aber was ist daraus zu schließen? Der Autor beschreibt…
Facetten der Prekarisierungsgesellschaft
Social securities are being eroded, gainful employment is becoming a lottery, the future is becoming impossible to plan for. How can the destabilizing of work and life that is referred to as precarization be explained? This volume does not seek a one-dimensional answer to this question. Instead, it brings together diverse perspectives from the social sciences on precarity, its causes and consequences: from regulation theory, post-operaism and dis…
Die Prekarisierungsgesellschaft
Wir leben in einer Gesellschaft zunehmender Verunsicherung: in der Prekarisierungsgesellschaft. Der Band analysiert die Strukturen dieser gesellschaftlichen Formation und nimmt die Protestbewegungen der Gegenwart und ihre politischen Implikationen in den Blick
Institution and dislocation
Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's theory is remarkable for bringing in a balance empirical analysis and philosophical considerations. The way this balance is reached is illustrated by discussing the main philosophical sources of Laclau's theory of space and antagonism. It is shown that Laclau's theory of social space relies on Husserl's phenomenology and critique of objectivism. Furthermore, it is shown in what way Laclau's differentiation betw…
Democracy and Minimal Politics
This essay explores the consequences of a recent development in political thought: the differentiation between the concepts of politics and the political (in French, la politique and le politique) as it emerged in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Claude Lefort, Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou, Ernesto Laclau, and others. It is claimed that, apart from very general ontological questions concerning the political structure of soc…
Democracy, critique and the ontological turn
The globalization of art and the ‘Biennials of Resistance’
More than any other institution in the art field, biennials mediate the local, national and transnational. In this sense, biennials can be called 'hegemonic machines' that link the local to the global within the field of symbolic struggles for legitimation. In this article, a brief genealogy is presented to show how anti- and postcolonial biennials have contributed to the artistic decentralization of the West. From this history, we may conclude t…
Conflictual cultural politics
In this exploratory paper, we discuss local cultural political tensions in Austria’s three largest cities (Vienna, Graz, and Linz). Against the backdrop of COVID-19, which hampered, yet also created new opportunities to host cultural events in public space, we analyze large-scale cultural events (Vienna and Graz), and a newly emerging cultural policy theme (Linz). Drawing on 30 qualitative interviews with cultural politicians, administrators, cul…
Ernesto Laclau
New Protest Formations and Radical Democracy
(2004). New Protest Formations and Radical Democracy. Peace Review: Vol. 16, SYMPOSIUM: Subcultures and Political Resistance Special Editors: Jeffrey Paris, University of San Francisco Michacl Ault, California State University, Bakersficld, pp. 415-420
Marcuse's Contribution to Political Thought
Among theorists associated with the first generation of the Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse's position is singular in that he provides us with an unabashedly affirmative theory of politics as liberatory practice. The article discusses Marcuse's contribution to political thought by pointing out how, in particular, three aspects remain highly pertinent to contemporary thought: (a) his account of freedom as potentiality, to be actualized in politi…
Time for a New Beginning. Arendt, Benjamin, and the Messianic Conception of Political Temporality
Like no other thinker, Hannah Arendt was occupied by the idea of the beginning and the question of how to begin something through acting.This gives some indication of the distance that separates Arendt from the philosophical tradition within which it was only on very rare occasions that the mysterious ability to make a beginning, to start something new, has attracted attention.One may think, as Hannah Arendt does herself, of Augustine and Kant, b…
The Other Side of Order
Austrifying Europe
The article investigates the political and cultural causes of the emergence of right-wing coalitions throughout the European Union, taking Austria as a symptomatic case of this return of political antagonism within a culture of consensus. It is argued that, methodologically and theoretically, a valid analysis of the phenomenon of xenophobic populism can only be achieved with the combined effort of both political and cultural theory,respectively o…
The ‘Fourth Way’ of the Ultra Right
WHEN IN EARLY FEBRUARY 2000 Austria's conservative People's Party (ÖVP) announced that it would build a coalition with the ultra-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) shockwaves spread through the media worldwide. Undoubtedly, this constituted a historic event in the European political landscape. For the first time a party of the extreme xenophobic Right was allowed to enter government and as a result, for the first time in their history, the member states o…
On Drawing A Line. Politics and the Significatory Logics of Inclusion / Exclusion
The article investigates into one of the most essential tropes of political thought: the figure of ›drawing a line‹. The many ways are described in which this figure appears and is modulated in the works of Mao, Carl Schmitt, Paul Goodman, the Red Army Faction as well as in popular culture. Yet ›drawing a line‹ is more than a rhetorical figure. What is argued in the article is that this figure invokes further reaching political questions as to th…
Austrifying Europe
The article investigates the political and cultural causes of the emergence of right-wing coalitions throughout the European Union, taking Austria as a symptomatic case of this return of political antagonism within a culture of consensus. It is argued that, methodologically and theoretically, a valid analysis of the phenomenon of xenophobic populism can only be achieved with the combined effort of both political and cultural theory,respectively o…
The Other Side of Order
New Protest Formations and Radical Democracy
(2004). New Protest Formations and Radical Democracy. Peace Review: Vol. 16, SYMPOSIUM: Subcultures and Political Resistance Special Editors: Jeffrey Paris, University of San Francisco Michacl Ault, California State University, Bakersficld, pp. 415-420
Ein revolutionärer Republikanismus - Hannah Arendt aus radikaldemokratischer Perspektive
Time for a New Beginning. Arendt, Benjamin, and the Messianic Conception of Political Temporality
Like no other thinker, Hannah Arendt was occupied by the idea of the beginning and the question of how to begin something through acting.This gives some indication of the distance that separates Arendt from the philosophical tradition within which it was only on very rare occasions that the mysterious ability to make a beginning, to start something new, has attracted attention.One may think, as Hannah Arendt does herself, of Augustine and Kant, b…
Politik und ontologische Differenz. Zum "streng Philosophischen" am Werk Ernesto Laclaus
Introduction
This book on post-foundational political thought navigates around a curious difference, which has assumed some currency in recent continental and Anglo-American political thought: the difference between politics and the political. It explores the evolution of a particular leftist version not only of ‘post-structuralism’ (a term that reduces the genealogy of left Heideggerianism to the scientific paradigm of structuralism) but of post-foundational…
Post-Foundational Political Thought
A wide-ranging overview of the emergence of post-foundationalism and a survey of the work of its key contemporary exponentsThis book presents the first systematic coverage of the conceptual difference between 'politics' (the practice of conventional politics: the political system or political forms of action) and 'the political' (a much more radical aspect which cannot be restricted to the realms of institutional politics). It is also the first i…
Post-Foundational Political Thought
This work presents the first systematic coverage of the conceptual difference between 'politics' and 'the political'. It is also the first introductory overview of post-foundationalism and the tradition of 'left Heideggerianism'
Ungesellschaftliche Gesellschaftlichkeit
Der Artikel geht von der Überlegung aus, dass zwei Formen der Exklusion voneinander unterschieden werden müssen. Zum einen jene Formen der Exklusion, die für das exkludierende System nicht konstitutiv sind, zum anderen ein Modus von Exklusion, der für das System eine sehr wohl konstitutive, d.h. notwendige Funktion erfüllt und daher als dessen Möglichkeitsbedingung zu gelten hat. Die Laclau’sche Diskurstheorie belegt diese Form eines radikaleren …
Claude Lefort
The Second Return of the Political
Democracy and Minimal Politics
This essay explores the consequences of a recent development in political thought: the differentiation between the concepts of politics and the political (in French, la politique and le politique) as it emerged in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Claude Lefort, Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou, Ernesto Laclau, and others. It is claimed that, apart from very general ontological questions concerning the political structure of soc…
Antagonism and Technicity
The essay seeh to sketch out, by outlining Stiegler's interpretation of ens, stasis and polemos as notions of social conflict, the relation between hu thought of technics and current thinking of the political. Stiegkr's notion of a 'de-fault of origin' is taken as an indication that he uto be located within the family of post- foundational political thinkers. At the same time, though, he tends to reduce politics to a rhetorical or strategic skill…
Laclau
Introduction Section 1: Philosophy: Universality, Singularity, Difference Rodolphe Gasche How Empty Can Empty Be? On the Place of the Universal Fred Dallmayr Laclau and Hegemony: Some (Post) Hegelian Caveats Oliver Marchart Politics and the Ontological Difference: On the Strictly Philosophical in Laclau's Work Rado Riha Politics as the Real of Philosophy Linda Zerilli This Universalism Which Is Not One Section 2: Democracy: Politics, Ethics, Norm…
Elements of Protest
By taking Ernesto Laclau's recent book On Populist Reason as its starting point, the article sets out to establish a critical dialogue between Cultural Studies in the Birmingham tradition and political discourse analysis in the Essex School tradition. It is argued that Laclau's notion of antagonism (as a name for the logic by which differential elements are articulated into chains of equivalence) might be useful as the 'missing link' explaining t…
Die Prekarisierungsgesellschaft. Prekäre Proteste. Politik und Ökonomie im Zeichen der Prekarisierung
Gesellschaft erscheint uns heute im flackernden Licht der Verunsicherung. Nicht erst seit der Finanzkrise erweisen sich stabil geglaubte Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnisse als prekär. Der Autor stellt die wichtigsten ökonomischen und soziologischen Theorien der Prekarisierung vor und zeigt: Prekarität hat die Gesellschaft in ihrer Gesamtheit erfasst. Wir leben in der Prekarisierungsgesellschaft. Aber was ist daraus zu schließen? Marchart beschreibt …
Die Prekarisierungsgesellschaft
Gesellschaft erscheint uns heute im flackernden Licht der Verunsicherung. Nicht erst seit der Finanzkrise erweisen sich stabil geglaubte Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnisse als prekär. Der Autor stellt die wichtigsten ökonomischen und soziologischen Theorien der Prekarisierung vor und zeigt: Prekarität hat die Gesellschaft in ihrer Gesamtheit erfasst. Wir leben in der Prekarisierungsgesellschaft. Aber was ist daraus zu schließen? Der Autor beschreibt…
Facetten der Prekarisierungsgesellschaft
Social securities are being eroded, gainful employment is becoming a lottery, the future is becoming impossible to plan for. How can the destabilizing of work and life that is referred to as precarization be explained? This volume does not seek a one-dimensional answer to this question. Instead, it brings together diverse perspectives from the social sciences on precarity, its causes and consequences: from regulation theory, post-operaism and dis…
The globalization of art and the ‘Biennials of Resistance’
More than any other institution in the art field, biennials mediate the local, national and transnational. In this sense, biennials can be called 'hegemonic machines' that link the local to the global within the field of symbolic struggles for legitimation. In this article, a brief genealogy is presented to show how anti- and postcolonial biennials have contributed to the artistic decentralization of the West. From this history, we may conclude t…
Institution and dislocation
Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's theory is remarkable for bringing in a balance empirical analysis and philosophical considerations. The way this balance is reached is illustrated by discussing the main philosophical sources of Laclau's theory of space and antagonism. It is shown that Laclau's theory of social space relies on Husserl's phenomenology and critique of objectivism. Furthermore, it is shown in what way Laclau's differentiation betw…
Ernesto Laclau
Ordnungen des Politischen
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