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About the event
The term “aesthetic” comes in a broad and a narrow version. In its broad sense, closely related to the original Greek word aisthesis, “aesthetic” denotes the entire field of sensate experience. In its more common and more limited sense, “aesthetic” refers to the field of art. In this talk, Isak Winkel Holm suggests that the junction of the two senses of “aesthetic” can serve as a point of departure for an exploration of the relation between care and art. It can help us understand the way in which artworks engage with housework. More specifically, Holm will explore how an aesthetics of care, in its double meaning, is concerned not only with the human household but also with our planetary oikos.
About the presenter
Isak Winkel Holm, professor of comparative literature at University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Recent books Kafka’s Stereoscopes: the Political Function of a Literary Style (Bloomsbury 2020) and Kierkegaard and Climate Catastrophe: Learning to Live on a Damaged Planet (Oxford University Press 2023). Principal investigator in OIKOS. A Cultural Analysis of Care and Crisis in the 21st Century, https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/oikos/.
Reading
Stefania Barca, Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene. of Elements in Environmental Humanities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108878371
Organizer
NB: External guests should register with Ada Arendt.