Talks and Events

Power, Resistance, Fascism: Re-Reading Foucault in the Present

June 26, 2025, Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies

The interdisciplinary workshop “Disalienation and Praxis – Experiments in Institutional Critique” addressed the question of how alienation in art, psychiatry, and institutions can be not only analysed but also overcome in practice. Four presentations discussed historical and theoretical approaches to “disalienation” – that is, the active processing and traversal of structures of alienation. 

Disalienation and Praxis: Experiments in institutional critique

June 12, 2025, Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies

The interdisciplinary workshop “Disalienation and Praxis – Experiments in Institutional Critique” addressed the question of how alienation in art, psychiatry, and institutions can be not only analysed but also overcome in practice. Four presentations discussed historical and theoretical approaches to “disalienation” – that is, the active processing and traversal of structures of alienation. 

Waystations of desire

Modernity finds itself in a dissociated state, that is, unable to attach its social energies and political desires to a political vision that resonates and coheres.In a moment of systems collapse, institutional critiques can only offer diagnostics of what has failed, how and why, and with what repercussions. What would it mean to move from an institutional critique of the recurrence of hierarchy and domination to an infrastructural critique of an anticolonial politics of the present?