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No full textSelf in Times of Tyranny of Choice
No full textRENATA SALECL Self in Times of Tyranny of Choice In her article, Renata Salecl takes today’s “endless possibilities” into consideration and critically follows well-established ideas that a free choice is nowadays possible for nearly everything: In the media challenges to be the creator of one’s life can often be found, endless options seem to be available – and often the choices made at last seem to have no clear foundation as attested e.g. by the vast numbers of self-help books on the market. Late capitalism makes us believe we could turn our lives into what we want all but in a self-determined manner, as if we were somehow independent from the Other. Salecl, however, highlights the other side of such ideologies with surprising results: by insisting on having a choice and the related need for control and accountability, a potentially compulsive attitude towards life is manifested – for all intents and purposes with the result of spreading angst. Thus, Salecl considers what is usually not accomplished in the assumption of rational choices.
Selbst im Bild. Kulturelle Versprechungen
No full textInsa Härtel, Kathrin HeinzImages of the Self: Cultural Promises This issue explores the processes of negotiating subjectivity in the social sphere. It focuses on inscriptions of the (artistic) “self” in various spatial, media, and cultural settings. Contributors discuss the dominant discourses and concepts of this historical figure and its casting—as well as related “reverse sides” and ”disorders.” Of interest are both Versprechungen (promises) and Versprecher (slips of the tongue). The issue traces the strategies and effects of the self-inventing, self-classifying, self-accommodating, and self-recording subject, which has always been relational, reliant, and dependent, and whose “speech” is always addressed, shaped by culture and history, and porous.
