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Mag*a Dr* Elisabeth Schäfer MAS
Department of Philosophy | University of Vienna | Universitätsstraße 7/III | A-1010 WIEN elisabeth.schaefer@univie.ac.at
Department of Philosophy | University of Vienna | Universitätsstraße 7/III | A-1010 WIEN elisabeth.schaefer@univie.ac.at
Main areas of activity
French philosophy, philosophy of the present, post-structural philosophy and deconstruction: Deconstruction, subject and discourse theory, power, biopolitics, affect, materiality, aesthetic theory, metaphysical criticism, ontology, phenomenology, deconstructive perspectives on the history of philosophy, gender issues, postcolonial philosophy (Derrida, Nancy, Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, Braidotti, Preciado, Merleau-Ponty, Barthes, de Man, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Beauvoir, Eribon, Spivak, Minh-ha, Lorde, Benjamin)
Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy science: questions of subject genesis, questions of sex, gender, power, invocation; epistemological perspectives on concepts of normativity, trauma, violence, psychoanalytic social and cultural theory, psychoanalysis as critical theory, ethics of psychoanalysis (Freud, Lacan, Laplanche, Kristeva, Butler, de Lauretis, Althusser, Adorno, Reich, Fanon, Žižek).
Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, and Trans* Studies: Body and Language, Intersectionality, Critique of Heteronormativity, Materiality, Feminist and Queer Philosophy, Standpoint Theory, Situated Knowledge, Deconstruction of Gender Binaries, Écriture féminine (Butler, Preciado, Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva, Braidotti, Haraway, Spivak).
Artistic research: writing as artistic research, philosophy and literature (Barthes, Blanchot, Cixous, Derrida, Ronell, Hamacher, Adnan, Adorno, Benjamin), climate change and the art, questions of the relation to the non-human and more-than-human-other (Haraway, Latour, Povinelli).
Artistic research: writing as artistic research, philosophy and literature (Barthes, Blanchot, Cixous, Derrida, Ronell, Hamacher, Adnan, Adorno, Benjamin), climate change and the art, questions of the relation to the non-human and more-than-human-other (Haraway, Latour, Povinelli).
Political philosophy: questions of democracy, community and assembly, concepts of authority, critique of ideology (Nancy, Arendt, Adorno, Foucault, Eribon, Butler, Mouffe)
Description of career and positions held to date
2020-2023 Post-Doc-Position FWF PEEK-Project "Performing Primal Communism. AAO – PPC. (Re-)writing of Reality through Discourse" (AR 568; Principle Investigator: Paul-Julien Robert) | Institut für bildende Kunst | IBK; Project-Team: Thomas Marschall, Elisabeth Schäfer, Ida Clay; Co-operationpartner: Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde | VKM.
2019 Post-Doc-Position FWF PEEK-Project „Topographien des Körpers: phänomenologische, genealogische und psychoanalytische Forschungen“ (P25977-G22; Principle Investigator: Assoz. Prof. Priv.-Doz. DDr. Barbara Ulrike Kadi) |Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at University Departments of the MedUni Vienna / Vienna General Hospital
2014-2017 Post-Doc-Position FWF PEEK-Project "Artist-Philosophers. Philosophy AS Arts-Based-Research" (AR 275-G21; Principle Investigator: Univ.-Doz. Dr. habil. Arno Böhler) | University of Applied Arts Vienna.
2006-2012 PhD Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria
2010-2012 Prae-Doc-Position FWF Translational Research-Project "Generating Bodies" (TRP 12-G21; Principle Investigator: Univ.-Doz. Dr. habil. Arno Böhler) | Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna.
2010-present Lecturer in Philosophy and Queer/Feminist Philosophy, Department of Philosophy University of Vienna, Department of Gender Studies University of Vienna and Department of Philosophy University of Klagenfurt, Winter- and Summerschools at the University of Potsdam, Germany; Cornelia-Goethe-Guest-Lecturer at the University of Frankfurt a. M. for Gender Studies Summer Term 2018.
Most important performances | presentations or exhibitions
1) Upcoming: WHICH ZONES. Tanzquartier Wien | 15.06./16.06.2023 19:30 [LINK]
Artistic director, concept, performance: Sabina Holzer | Concept, space: Jack Hauser | Text, performance: Elisabeth Schäfer | Choreographic support: Alix Eynaudi | Sound: Thomas Wagensommerer | Outside Eye: Brigitte Wilfing | Production: mollusca productions | A co-production of Tanzquartier Wien and cattravelsnotalone.
Artistic director, concept, performance: Sabina Holzer | Concept, space: Jack Hauser | Text, performance: Elisabeth Schäfer | Choreographic support: Alix Eynaudi | Sound: Thomas Wagensommerer | Outside Eye: Brigitte Wilfing | Production: mollusca productions | A co-production of Tanzquartier Wien and cattravelsnotalone.
2) INVITATION TO EXHIBITION "ON STAGE – KUNST ALS BÜHNE" | mumok 2023 as part of the group MATHILDA [LINK]
3) KOMPLIZENSCHAFT IN DER SICHTBARKEIT | ARTISTIC RESEARCH INSTALLATION [FWF PEEK AR 568] at Volkskunde Museum Wien | June/July 2021 [LINK]
4) ZUGRIFF AUF DIE KÖRPER | VIDEO PIECE WITH TEXT | ARTISTIC RESEARCH INSTALLATION [FWF PEEK AR 568] at Volkskunde Museum Wien | June/July 2021 [LINK]
5) WHICH DANCES. A CHOREOGRAPHIC ASSEMBLAGE. Volkskunde Museum Wien | Di, 25.5. bis Sa, 29.5.2021 | 10.00 bis 17.00 [LINK] Project & artistic direction: cattravelsnotalone - Sabina Holzer | dance and other textures: Sabina Holzer | Space, artistic support, video: Jack Hauser | textual & philosophical company: Elisabeth Schäfer | Choreographic support: Brigitte Wilfing
Sound: Thomas Wagensommerer | Dramaturgical advice: Herbert Justnik | Project management: Lena Nothdurfter | Technical support: Patrick Widhofner-Schmidt
Sound: Thomas Wagensommerer | Dramaturgical advice: Herbert Justnik | Project management: Lena Nothdurfter | Technical support: Patrick Widhofner-Schmidt
5) WHICH DANCES IN PROGRESS. Jot12 / Seelab Vienna | June, July 2020 [LINK] Project & artistic initiative: Sabina Holzer | video, space and concepts: Jack Hauser | texts and contexts: Elisabeth Schäfer | choreography: Brigitte Wilfing | sound: Thomas Wagensommerer
Most important peer review ARTICLES
1) Subject-in-process/on trial, together with Esther Hutfless, in: Maria Magaroni (Ed.): Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism. London: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023, pp. 321-329.
2) Dora with Medusa. Is hysterical writing a subversive revolution? Invited article for the Anthology Hysterical Methodologies in the Arts. Rising in Revolts, edited by Johanna Braun, Palgrave Macmillan 2021, pp. 339-357.
3) Dora mit Medusa. Gibt es ein hysterisches Schreiben als subversive Revolution?, in: texte. psychoanalyse. ästhetik. kulturkritik. Edited by Ulrike Kadi, August Ruhs, Karl Stockreiter, Gerhard Zenaty. Wien: Passagen Verlag 3/2019, pp. 91-110.
4) Writing as artistic research, in: Ruth Mateus-Berr, Richard Jochum (Eds.): Teaching Artistic Research. Conversations Across Cultures. Berlin: De Gruyter 2020, pp. 60-70.
5) Open Text – Open Performance: Hélène Cixous and Ariane Mnouchkine, together with Esther Hutfless and Gertrude Postl, in: Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, Alice Lagaay (Eds.): The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy. New York: Routledge 2020, pp. 330-334.
6) “The Lesson of the Cockroach. Towards an Ethics of Ugliness“ together with Esther Hutfless, in: Rodrigues, Sara/Przybylo, Ela (Ed.): Ethics of Ugliness. Basingtonstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2018, pp. 103-124.
7) „Hélène Cixous’ Life Writings – Writing a Life. Oder: Das Auto-/Biographische ist nicht privat“, in: Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie Band 3 2017, Pathos / Passibilität, ed. by Jörg Sternagel, Michael Mayer, pp. 81–98.
Most important editorships
1) Upcoming: Paul-Julien Robert, Ida Clay, Zarah Gutsch u. Elisabeth Schäfer (Eds.): Gewalt der Bilder. Bilder der Gewalt. Bielefeld: transcript (Herbst 2023).
2) Upcoming: Sabina Holzer, Elisabeth Schäfer (Eds.): which dances – which writes. Aluminium Assemblagen. Sonderzahl Verlag: Wien 2023 (Juni 2023).
3) Publication of the first German Translation of Hélène Cixous’ Essay Gespräch mit dem Esel. Blind Schreiben. together with Esther Hutfless: Hélène Cixous: Gespräch mit dem Esel. Blind Schreiben. Sonderzahl Verlag: Wien 2022.
4) Publication of the first German Translation of Hélène Cixous’ Essay The Laugh of Medusa together with Esther Hutfless and Gertrude Postl: Hélène Cixous. Das Lachen der Medusa zusammen mit aktuellen Beiträgen. Passagen Press: Wien 2013.
5) Editorship (together with Arno Böhler and Eva-Maria Aigner) of the First Bilingual Issue of PERFORMANCE PHILOSOPHY JOURNAL. Title of the Issue: “The Concept of Immanence in Performance Philosophy”, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21476/PP.2017.33137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21476/PP.2017.33137