Joseph Vogl

This article deals with the media scientist Joseph Vogl. For other people see Josef Vogl .

Joseph Vogl, 2012 in Frankfurt am Main

Joseph Vogl (born October 5, 1957 in Eggenfelden , Lower Bavaria ) is a German literary , cultural and media scholar and philosopher . He holds the Chair for Modern German Literature: Literature and Cultural Studies / Media at the Humboldt University in Berlin and a Permanent Visiting Professor at Princeton University .

Career

After graduating from high school in 1977, he studied German , philosophy and history in Munich and Paris . In 1984 he earned the degree of Master of Arts at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , where he specialized in 1990 Recent German literature doctorate was. From 1992 to 1994 he received a postdoctoral fellowship from the DFG and from 1995 to 1997 a postdoctoral fellowship . In 1999 Vogl became professor for the history and theory of artificial worlds at the media faculty of the Bauhaus University Weimar . In 2001 he completed his habilitation in modern German literature at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Since April 1, 2006, he has held the professorship for Modern German Literature: Literature and Cultural Studies / Media at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2005/2006 he was Visiting Professor at Princeton University, in 2007 Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley , and since 2007 he has been Permanent Visiting Professor in the Department of German at Princeton University.

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A central research focus of Joseph Vogl is on the “ poetologies of knowledge” - the interconnection of knowledge and literature. Other focal points are the history and theory of knowledge, the history of danger and dangerousness in modern times, as well as discourse and media theory and the history of literature from the 18th to 20th centuries.

Vogl's thinking is in the tradition of critical theory and post-structuralist philosophy, above all those of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuzes . He is a translator of key works of modern French philosophy such as Gilles Deleuze: Difference and Repetition and Jean-François Lyotard : The Contrast .

At the Diaphanes publishing house in Zurich / Berlin, he and Claus Pias publish the media and science history book series »sequencia«.

In his work Das Gespenst des Kapitals, published in 2010 shortly after the global crisis of financial market capitalism of 2008ff., Which met with a strong response and has been translated into numerous languages, Vogl coined the term oikodicy : He calls for the disenchantment of the economist tradition inherited from merchandise management Credos ( oikodicy ) of the financial markets . The liberal-economic theories and their powerful belief in the invisible hand of the market in the tradition of Adam Smith fail to recognize the irrational, diabolical dynamics of the unleashed money economy as secularized theodicy .

In his last work to date, The Sovereignty Effect (2015), Vogl traces the genealogy of capitalist modernity together with its actors and institutions: private financiers, central banks, state foundations. In doing so, he exposes - similar to Karl Marx - the liberal myth of a separation of politics and economy. Political decision-making power and modern finance thus went hand in hand. In terms of diagnosis of the present, Vogl defines a specific, de-democratizing type of power, which, following Deleuze and Foucault, he describes as a seignioral power and which structures the international governance regime of financial market capitalism . “The figures of seignioral power [...] are rather informal, diffuse, unstable and cannot be translated into a concise systemic form. One could speak of an open and constellative compression, fusion and interaction of forces of different origins, the effectiveness of which lies precisely in the weakness of institutional or systemic imprint. ”Vogl's book shows the development of capitalist financial economics and clearly reveals that we are not in democracies live, but in oligarchic systems of global capitalist profit maximization ruled by political and economic elites. With this work, Vogl was shortlisted for the 2015 Leipzig Book Fair prize in the non-fiction / essay category .

Since the mid-1990s, Vogl appeared in the dctp culture magazines as a conversation partner for the intellectual, filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge . The dialogues were also published in book form in 2009 ( debit and credit. TV talks ). In addition, Vogl is well known to the public for his analyzes of concepts, phenomena and society in numerous interviews in German-language media, magazines and feature pages. B. in the culture television magazines ttt and Kulturzeit , in the ZEIT , taz or FAZ as well as in the Hohe Luft and in the philosophy magazine .

Awards and grants

• 1979: Student funding from the German National Academic Foundation .
• 1987: Promotion of doctoral studies by the German National Academic Foundation.
• 1988: German-French translation award from the DVA Foundation.
• 1991–1992: Fellow at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris.
• 1992–1994: Postdoctoral fellowship from the DFG.
• 1995–1997: Habilitation grant from the DFG.
• 2001–2002: Visiting Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), Vienna.

Fonts

• with Thomas Anz (ed.): The poets and the war. German poetry 1914–1918. Hanser, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-446-13470-0 .
• Places of violence. Kafka's literary ethics. (= Diss. Munich, 1990) Fink, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7705-2653-8 . Republished diaphanes, Zurich-Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-03734-100-1 .
• (Ed.): Communities. Positions on a Philosophy of the Political. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-518-11881-1 .
• (Ed.): Kafka -revier. Reclam, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-15-040024-4 .
• with Friedrich Balke (ed.): Gilles Deleuze. Lines of flight of philosophy. Fink, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7705-3097-7 , TB Suhrkamp ISBN 978-3-518-11919-8 .
• with Wolfgang Schäffner (ed.): Michel Foucault / Herculine Barbin . About hermaphrodism. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-11733-5 .
• (Ed.): Poetologies of knowledge around 1800. Fink, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7705-3308-9 .
• Claus Pias, Lorenz Engell et al. (Ed.): Kursbuch MedienKultur. DVA, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-421-05310-3 .
• Calculation and passion. Poetics of the economic man. diaphanes, Zurich-Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-935300-46-8 .
• with Bernhard Siegert (Ed.): Europe. Secretary culture. diaphanes, Zurich-Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-935300-38-7 .
• Law and judgment. Contributions to a theory of the political. VDG, Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-89739-344-1 .
• with Anne von der Heiden (Ed.): Political Zoology. diaphanes, Zurich-Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-935300-94-0 .
• About procrastination. diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-03734-020-2 .
• For everyone and none. Reading, writing and life with Nietzsche and Kafka. diaphanes, Zurich-Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-03734-039-4 .
• with Sabine Schimma (Ed.): Experimental arrangements 1800. diaphanes, Zurich-Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-03734-028-8 .
• with Alexander Kluge : debit and credit. TV talks. diaphanes, Zurich-Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-03734-051-6 .
• The ghost of capital. diaphanes, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-03734-116-2 .
• The sovereignty effect diaphanes, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-03734-250-3 .
• Sinker of Stories , with Alexander Kluge , Diaphanes, Zurich 2020, ISBN 978-3-0358-0347-1 .

Web links

Commons : Joseph Vogl  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Joseph Vogl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Curriculum vitae and list of publications on the Humboldt University Berlin website
• What is an event? Lecture from October 26, 2003
• Thomas Assheuer : Torture in the picture . In: The time . May 13, 2004 ( interview ).
• Joseph Vogl at diaphanes

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joseph Vogl on the website of the Institute for German Literature
2. ^ "Difference and Repetition" - 1992, 1997, 2007 (3rd edition); as a paperback with 408 pages; a work translated from French by Joseph Vogl ; published December 1, 2007; ISBN 3-7705-2730-5 ; original name was (1968) Différance et répétition , by Gilles Deleuze
3. ↑ Anja Riedeberger: The Diabolical Hand - Joseph Vogl on the disenchantment of the market (accessed on August 17, 2014)
4. ↑ Joseph Vogl, The Sovereignty Effect, Diaphanes: Zurich / Berlin 2015, p. 102.
5. ↑ preis-der-leipziger-buchmesse.de
6. ↑ faz.net March 11, 2015: Review by Werner Plumpe