eprintid: 7047
rev_number: 21
eprint_status: archive
userid: 4
dir: disk0/00/00/70/47
datestamp: 2020-09-29 15:15:43
lastmod: 2020-10-15 07:46:31
status_changed: 2020-09-29 15:15:43
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Sauer, Martina
title: What is Reality? Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, and the artist Karin Kneffel on the deconstruction of the familiar as liberation from determination
subjects: ddc-700
divisions: i-9
keywords: Postmoderne, Poststrukturalismus, Kunsttheorie, Kunst
cterms_swd: Kunst
cterms_swd: Postmoderne
cterms_swd: Poststrukturalismus
cterms_swd: Ästhetik
cterms_swd: Benjamin, Walter
cterms_swd: Barthes, Roland
cterms_swd: Derrida, Jacques
cterms_swd: Butler, Judith
cterms_swd: Kneffel, Karin
note: Der Artikel wurde im Themenheft "On the Postmodern Age" der Zeitschrift "Art style : art & culture international magazine" im September 2020 veröffentlicht. Zugang zum kompletten Themenheft siehe Link "Verwandte URLs".
abstract: What is reality? It is postmodern or poststructuralist philosophers like Roland Barthes, who realized that it only seems that the media present reality in the form of facts, because they actually spread myths. Accordingly, Jacques Derrida made it clear that communication via media is not based on logic, but is characterized by a significant “différance” between a “marque” (trace) of the past and the expectations of the future. Both agreed, that the initial misunderstanding of the concept of reality must be uncovered or "deconstructed". This is more than necessary for them, because media, be it pictures or language, in truth convey values that are culturally and socially significant. They ‘iterate’ these values subliminally, because what shows up are only placeholders and thus mere forms (“structures of graphematic”) that are superficially realised as facts (“stereotypes”). In this way, according to Barthes, we all accept without question the values hidden behind them, so that they can gain a normative power that unconsciously guides our thinking, our decisions and our actions. Afterwards, it is Judith Butler who critically asked: How can we ever escape from this? Given the power of the subliminal dominant discourses, she saw the only effective solution “im Umdeuten” (in reinterpretation) of their subliminal values. In order to finally escape this “parasitic existence at the ritual”, the media philosopher Walter Benjamin already suggested to trigger "Chockwirkungen” (shock effects) in the viewer. It is the German painter Karin Kneffel, so it shall be shown, who has realized this with her series Fruits and Interiors in the most beautiful photorealistic strategy.
date: 2020
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/artdok.00007047
ppn_swb: 1735553379
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-70470
language: eng
bibsort: SAUERMARTIWHATISREAL2020
full_text_status: public
publication: Art style : art & culture international magazine
volume: 6
number: 6 (September)
pagerange: 101-120
issn: 2596-1810
related_url_url: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/volltexte/2020/7048
oa_type: green
themen: T11
themen: T20
laender: LDe
citation:   Sauer, Martina  (2020) What is Reality? Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, and the artist Karin Kneffel on the deconstruction of the familiar as liberation from determination.   In:  Art style : art & culture international magazine, 6 (2020), Nr. 6 (September).   pp. 101-120. ISSN 2596-1810      
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7047/1/Sauer_What_is_reality_2020.pdf