Gerald Raunig
Gerald Raunig (* 1963 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ) is an Austrian philosopher and art theorist .
Life
Raunig studied philosophy, classical philology and history in Vienna and Klagenfurt and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. He completed his habilitation and received the venia docendi for philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Klagenfurt . He is Professor of Aesthetics at the Zurich University of the Arts and co-founder of the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (eipcp). His main research interests are political philosophy , epistemology , aesthetics and philosophy of art. Raunig is also a member of the editorial team of transversal texts , a multilingual publication platform, and of the magazine Kamion .
In 1992 he became a board member of the Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus (WUK) Vienna and in 1994 of the IG Kultur Austria . He was a regular author of the Kulturrisse .
Fonts (selection)
Monographs
- Charon. An aesthetics of crossing borders (= Klagenfurt series on philosophy and cultural studies ). Passagen-Verlag, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85165-397-1 .
- Therese Kaufmann: Anticipating European cultural policies (= European cultural policies think ahead ). Eipcp, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-9501762-0-9 .
- Art and revolution. Artistic activism in the long 20th century (= Republicart . 4). Turia + Kant, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85132-425-0 .
- A thousand machines. A little philosophy of the machine as a social movement (= It depends . Vol. 7). Turia + Kant, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85132-516-4 .
- with Stefan Nowotny: instituting practices. The reappropriation of institutional criticism (= Republicart . 9). Turia + Kant, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85132-513-3 .
- Streaking and smoothing . 2 volumes, Diaphanes, Zurich 2012.
- Volume 1: Factories of Knowledge. ISBN 978-3-03734-213-8 .
- Volume 2: Industries of Creativity. ISBN 978-3-03734-221-3 .
- DIVIDUUM: Machinic Capitalism and Molecular Revolution, Volume 1. transversal texts, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-9501762-8-5 .
Editorships
- Kulturrisse: Relevance and social functions of free cultural work , documentation of the symposium of the same name organized by IG Kultur Austria , November 22-24, 1995, Funkhaus Wien, accessed on June 17, 2016.
- Transversal. Art and criticism of globalization (= Republicart . 1). Turia + Kant, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85132-352-1 .
- Image spaces and spatial images. Representative criticism in film and activism (= Republicart . 2). Turia + Kant, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85132-394-7 .
- with Ulf Wuggenig: Public. Theories of the public (= Republicart . 5). Turia + Kant, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85132-426-9 .
- with Ulf Wuggenig: Critique of Creativity (= Republicart . 6). Turia + Kant, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85132-459-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerald Raunig in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gerald Raunig at the Zurich University of the Arts
- Gerald Raunig at the eipcp
- Gerald Raunig at transversal texts
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SURNAME | Raunig, Gerald |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian philosopher and art theorist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Klagenfurt am Wörthersee |