Elfie Miklautz

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Elfie Miklautz (* 1958 ) is an Austrian cultural sociologist and university professor. She teaches at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and conducts research at the interfaces between science and art.

Career

Miklautz studied sociology and philosophy in Klagenfurt and Vienna and obtained his doctorate in 1992 on the social significance of artefacts. As a scholarship holder, she investigated the (measurement) alliances between selfishness and selflessness and did research a. a. at the Warburg Institute in London and in Florentine archives. Awarded for innovative teaching, Miklautz completed his habilitation in 2008 at the Vienna University of Economics on the symbolic economy of the exchange of gifts.

research

For her often interdisciplinary work, Miklautz uses not only cultural sociological but also philosophical, cultural anthropological, economic and art theoretical concepts. After analyzing, among other things, symbolic economy, product culture and the logic of cultural fields, the focus of her research has recently been on the creative industries and music-aesthetic subjects, mainly in the area of ​​tension between knowledge through art . Her writings and projects on this are considered to be trend-setting - such as a three-year, process and work-oriented cooperation between scientists and artists on the topic of other spaces .

Fonts (selection)

As an author
  • Illusionary gifts: On the logic of "as if". In: Ingrid Hentschel (Ed.): The art of gift. Theater between autonomy and social practice . Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4021-2 .
  • The art in the thoughtless. Stupidity as a method . In: wespennest vol. 174, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-85458-174-1 .
  • With Adreis Echzehn: al niente - a dissolution. Thinking in Images and Sounds . In: Paolo de Assis, Paolo Giudici (eds.): The Dark Precursor. Deleuze and Artistic Research, Volume II: Image, Space, and Politics . Presses universitaires de Louvain, Leuven 2017, ISBN 978-9-4627-0118-2 .
  • With Adreis Echzehn: Cultura Morta. Under surfaces . In: wespennest vol. 168, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85458-168-0 .
  • aaaaaaaaaaaaa. Music wants to hear us. In: Christian Grüny (Ed.): Music and Language. Velbrück, Weilerswist 2012, ISBN 978-3-942393-50-8 .
  • Scope of the unavailable. Figures of the withdrawal of musicians. In: Barbara Gronau, Alice Lagaay (ed.): Economies of restraint. Transcript, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1260-8 .
  • For free. Exchange for gift - a critique of symbolic economy. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-4970-2 .
  • Crystallized Sense: A Contribution to the Sociological Theory of the Artifact . Profil, Munich / Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-89019-396-X .


As editor
  • With Wilhelm Berger: curiosity. show more . Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7705-6065-3 .
  • With Andrea Grisold, Andreas Resch: Creative in Vienna. Fourteen case studies in the field of tension between economics and art. Lit, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-50292-6 .
  • With Reinhard Eisendle, Herbert Lachmayer: The kitchen. On the history of an architectural, social and imaginative space. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-205-99076-5 .
  • With Reinhard Eisendle: product cultures. Dynamics and change in the meaning of consumption. Campus, Frankfurt a. M./New York 1992, ISBN 3-593-34770-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elfie Miklautz: Crystallized Sense: A Contribution to the Sociological Theory of the Artifact. Profil, Munich / Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-89019-396-X .
  2. ↑ Elfie Miklautz: Free. Exchange for gift - a critique of symbolic economy. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-4970-2 .
  3. ↑ www.spaciergang.org. Retrieved April 8, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Miklautz, Elfie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cultural sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958