BUBBLES, BITES & BOOKS: Ästhetik des Ungehorsams | 24.10.2024 | Wien

Reading with the doctoral philosopher Jan Juhani Steinmann and publisher Albert C. Eibl from their book Aesthetics of Disobedience.

Accompany us on a journey into the world of thought of the doctor of philosophy Jan Juhani Steinmann and the publisher and publicist Albert C. Eibl. The two friends and authors will read from their work Aesthetics of Disobedience, published by Wiesner Verlag in 2024.

Not only your spiritual well-being will be taken care of, too Your physical well-being is not neglected. The ticket price includes two glasses of bubbles from Kattus, water and small cocktail bites.

This event is organized and moderated by Chiara Meidinger (Miss Mindful Manners).

About the work

Aesthetics of disobedience. Interventions in the digital age.

Aesthetics of Disobedience sees itself as a philosophical-literary attempt at resistance against the all-consuming pull of the digital. It means cultivating an art of living in freedom and remaining alert to the wonderful in the world. Anyone who spends their lives in a cheerful and active way, dwelling in the beautiful and unbound, is taking the path of the “free-walker”: in defiance of the prison of the technocentric present and its guards, the AI, they keep their gaze constantly directed skywards: beyond Using the bars of numbers and algorithms, he creates spaces and oases of beauty that some other prisoners never see. As an “imaginationist” he has learned, in the midst of nihilistic post-postmodernism, to dare aesthetic disobedience from the center of his imagination: against all visual and thematic tutelage of technology, he dreams himself in the adventures of his mind, with his eye turned inwards, to the focal point of his Existence continues.

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In their new book, Albert C. Eibl and Jan Juhani Steinmann reveal ways to deal aesthetically with digital transformation. In a total of 12 chapters, which alternate stylistically between philosophy, essay, narrative and poetry, they alternately circle the possibilities of beauty, freedom and metaphysics in the digital era. Her aesthetics of disobedience is seen as an essayistic-literary contribution to the highly topical discourse about people's normative approach to digitalization and its epoch-making consequences.

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Albert C. Eibl

The editor Albert C. Eibl, born in Munich in 1990 and grew up in Italy, is a publisher, freelance journalist and Germanist. As the founder and director of the Viennese publishing house The Forgotten Book, he played a key role in the rediscovery of the Austrian-Jewish writers Marta Karlweis, Else Jerusalem and Maria Lazar. Most recently, at btb, he re-edited the long-unfairly forgotten Auschwitz memories Holidays at the Waldsee by the Hungarian-Jewish art collector and gallery owner Carl Laszlo. DVB most recently published Maria Lazar's last prose work Two Soldiers and the volume of poetry To my unknown reader under his editorship. His book Aesthetics of Disobedience, written together with Jan Juhani Steinmann, was published by Wieser Verlag in spring 2024. Interventions in the digital age.
www.dvb-verlag.at

Jan Juhani Steinmann

Jan Juhani Steinmann, born in Bern, Finnish on his mother's side, is a philosopher, poet and theologian. He studied philosophy, general and comparative literature, political science and theology in Zurich, Berlin, St. Andrews, Heidelberg, Rome and Cambridge. He has been an external lecturer in philosophy at the University of Vienna since 2019 and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich since 2023. Under the supervision of Prof. Konrad Paul Liessmann, he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vienna in 2021. He is currently researching poetic phenomenology in the context of the thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Heidegger at the Institut Catholique de Paris, at the Università di Roma LUMSA and at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He is also the founder of the Omnibus Omnia collective. In addition to academic publications in philosophy and theology, he also publishes poetry (Am Saum der Wort, Castrum 2021).
www.jjsteinmann.com