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Portrait by Jürgen Bauer5/15/2023 ![]() ![]() From April to July 2019 Reckwitz is Thomas Mann Fellow at the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles. Most recently published books are The Invention of Creativity (Polity Press 2017) and Ästhetik und Gesellschaft (Suhrkamp 2015), while at the end of 2017 the book Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten (Suhrkamp) was published, which examines digitisation as a mechanism of social change. ![]() His works are large-scale sociological studies on social tendencies such as subjectivation, aestheticization or singularization. Andreas Reckwitz asks in his lecture on the society of singularities: To what extent can digitalisation be interpreted as a mechanism of social singularisation and what are the consequences?Īndreas Reckwitz is Professor of Comparative Cultural Sociology at the European University Viadrina. Digital technologies, such as social media platforms and smartphones, are a necessary condition of the process. Things, individuals, events, places and communities – everything wants to be special… The result is a competition of attention and evaluation for the status of this uniqueness, the so-called singularity. Drei Menschen erzhlen Georgs Biografie, drei. Ein groer Unbekannter steht im Mittelpunkt von Jrgen Bauers neuem Roman. It does no longer aim at the general, standardized and average solely, but promotes and expects uniqueness. Read 'Portrait' by Jrgen Bauer available from Rakuten Kobo. The late-modern society produces singularities. Hey Pandas, Whats The Most Professional-Looking Photo Youve Taken With Your Phone (Closed) Bored Panda Bored Panda works better on our iPhone app. ![]()
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