Michael Esders

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Michael Esders.

Michael Esders (* 1971 ) is a German author, literary scholar and journalist.

Life

Michael Esders studied German, philosophy and sociology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and started a thesis on conceptual gestures in 1999 . PhD in philosophy as short prose from Friedrich Schlegel to Adorno . After an internship in a daily newspaper, he worked as an editor and in corporate communications.

Core thesis

In his books and essays, Michael Esders examines how media, marketing and public relations use literary forms of representation as templates. Poetic ways of speaking and aesthetic strategies help to disguise manipulative intentions under the guise of lack of interest and at the same time to enforce them even more effectively, argues Esders. The most prominent example of this adaptation of poetic forms, which he defines as 'expropriation', is the worldwide boom in storytelling.

The commercial exploitation of language continues right into the microstructure of texts and increasingly dominates their design, as Esders analyzed in his book Alphabetical Capital , published in 2017 . Using algorithmically controlled language functions in search engines and social networks, which the author characterizes as “digital terminology exchanges”, a “monetary grammar” is creeping up.

Fonts

Books

  • Conceptual gestures. Philosophy as short prose from Friedrich Schlegel to Adorno. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Vienna: Lang 2000. ISBN 978-3-631-36159-7
  • The dispossessed poetry. How media, marketing and PR exploit literature. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011. ISBN 978-3-89528-876-0
  • Ware history. The poetic simulation of a habitable world. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2014. ISBN 978-3-8498-1075-7 .
  • Alphabetical capital. About the economy of meanings . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2017. ISBN 978-3-8498-1244-7
  • Language regime. The power of political truth systems. Lüdinghausen, Berlin: Manuscriptum 2020 (series TUMULT, vol. 10). ISBN 978-3-948075-14-9

Articles / essays (selection)

  • Little philosophy. Short prose from Simmel, Bloch, Benjamin, Adorno and Flusser. In: Weimar Contributions. 46 (2000), pp. 250-260.
  • Storytelling. About the expropriation of storytelling. In: Mercury. German Journal for European Thinking 64 (2010). Pp. 25-35.
  • Real time. To the boom of a term. In: Mercury. German Journal for European Thought 66 (2012). Pp. 351-356.
  • Term exchanges. About word utilization on the web. In: Mercury. German Journal for European Thinking 69 (2015). Pp. 78-85.
  • Google and the value of words . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from October 26, 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ About the author Michael Esders - Aisthesis Verlag. Retrieved July 11, 2017 .
  2. ^ Jeanne Wellnitz: The mobile campfire of storytelling. In: press officer. Communication magazine 7/2014. Retrieved on July 11, 2017 (German).

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personal data
SURNAME Esders, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, literary scholar and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971