Books by Bettina Papenburg
Vitalitätseffekte: Erkenntnis und Affekt in der Medienkultur der Zellbiologie, 2023
Wie schaffen Bilder Wissen? Welche Rolle kommt der Ästhetik in der naturwissenschaftlichen Bildge... more Wie schaffen Bilder Wissen? Welche Rolle kommt der Ästhetik in der naturwissenschaftlichen Bildgebung zu? Was verändert sich an der Beweiskraft des Bildes durch die digitale Bilderzeugung? Bettina Papenburg befasst sich anhand von zellbiologischen Forschungs- und Lehrfilmen mit den bildgebenden Verfahren der computergestützten Mikroskopie. Aus einer medien- und filmwissenschaftlichen sowie kunst- und wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Perspektive untersucht sie, wie digitale Bilder in der naturwissenschaftlichen Forschung als Erkenntnismedien wirken. Dabei zeigt sich, dass sich die fachlich geschulte, auf Erkenntnisgewinn ausgerichtete Wahrnehmung und die affektive Beteiligung an den Filmen nicht konträr zueinander verhalten, sondern einander bereichern und erweitern.
Gender: Laughter, hg. v. Bettina Papenburg. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA., 2017
Gender: Laughter, part of the Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks series on gender, examines th... more Gender: Laughter, part of the Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks series on gender, examines the significance of laughter in gender and sexuality studies. The volume presents laughter as an affective force that reverberates in and between bodies, shatters social hierarchies, and enables and reveals relations between and among people. Multiple interconnections between gender and laughter generate a number of pressing questions: How does laughter arise? How does laughter create community? How and whom does laughter exclude? What practices of inclusion and exclusion are effected through laughter, and what does this reveal about society at large? How can laughter function as a strategy of resistance? What does laughter subvert? What is the role of bodies, sense perception, and affect in generating laughter? How does laughter challenge and transform corporeal boundaries? What does laughter make palpable? What feelings does laughter generate and transform? The twenty-five chapters in this volume explore these questions and related concerns in five thematic parts: Gender and Genre; The Carnivalesque and the Grotesque; Tonalities of Laughter; Performance and Artifice; and Materialities. An introduction, numerous engaging illustrations, a glossary of key terms, and a comprehensive index provide additional context and assistance to students, instructors, and general readers. The Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks series on gender presents an exceptional opportunity for many people, especially undergraduate students, to become more familiar with the usefulness and pleasure of "doing gender and sexuality studies." The introductory volume along with subsequent volumes on Animals, God, Laughter, Love, Matter, Nature, Space, Time, and War offer a conceptual approach that encourages a thoroughly cross-, trans-, and interdisciplinary exploration of so-called universal themes. A variety of sexually, racially, and gender-sensitive critical perspectives are employed to investigate foundational questions addressed by feminist scholars and scientists. Chapters in each volume are newly commissioned and hence based on fresh and topical research and debates from fields such as philosophy, anthropology, literature, art, music, social sciences, (old and new) media, history, science, religion, and others. Both individually and as a series, the handbooks constitute a resolutely interdisciplinary project in the sense given to the term by Roland Barthes: "In order to do interdisciplinary work, it is not enough to take a 'subject' (a theme) and to arrange two or three sciences around it. Interdisciplinary study consists in creating a new object, which belongs to no one."
"Art today is an increasingly multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing transgressive works that inte... more "Art today is an increasingly multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing transgressive works that intervene in war and ecological disasters, in inequalities and revolutionary changes in technology. Carnal Aesthetics is a fascinating, new examination of this aspect of contemporary visual culture. Employing recent theories of transgressive body imagery, trauma, affect and sensation, it provides a fresh look at the meeting point between the politics of representation and the politics
of perception through the prismatic lens of feminist theory.
Acclaimed scholars analyse a wide range of seminal case studies coming from different media: digital photography, painting, video, film and multimedia art. They explore here a number of transgressive movements that significantly reconfigure the relationship between the body and the image.
Unlike other books on the complex relationship between politics and aesthetics, Carnal Aesthetics seeks to provide a novel approach to art and culture by challenging the primacy of vision and by injecting an intersectional perspective into the fields of visual studies, film and media studies, as well as trauma studies. It will be a significant contribution for scholars across these dynamic fields of exploration who deal with the socio-political nature of contemporary visual culture in their work."
Die Idee des »neuen Fleischs« durchkreuzt herkömmliche Grenzziehungen, welche die Domänen Natur u... more Die Idee des »neuen Fleischs« durchkreuzt herkömmliche Grenzziehungen, welche die Domänen Natur und Technik klar voneinander unterscheiden. Was sagen uns die gleichermaßen verstörenden wieverführerischen Körperbilder in den Filmen David Cronenbergs über die Bewertung vonKulturtechnologien?Bettina Papenburg fokussiert in diesem Buch auf den grotesken Körperund eröffnet darüber einen frischen Blick auf Cronenbergs geladeneVisualisierungen von Körpermetaphern. Im Mittelpunkt der close readingsausgewählter Sequenzen aus den Filmen »The Brood«, »Crimes of theFuture«, »Videodrome«, »eXistenZ« und »Crash« stehen Darstellungen vonFragmentierung, Heterogenität und Exzess, sowie von Unschärfen undÜbergängen innerhalb unseres Kategoriensystems.
Special Journal Issues by Bettina Papenburg
The Processes of Imaging / The Imaging of Processes, Oct 19, 2018
This introduction outlines the main topics of this Special Section on "The Processes of Imaging /... more This introduction outlines the main topics of this Special Section on "The Processes of Imaging / The Imaging of Processes" and situates them in their specific theoretical and historical contexts. Drawing on feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS), on feminist New Materialism, and on media studies based in the Arts and the Humanities, we frame the exploratory studies assembled in this collection of essays with respect to the dynamic entanglement of matter, technology, and meaning-making practices. We attend to the question how the construction of scientific images and imaging technologies is tethered to hierarchical social relations and discriminatory practices.
Feminist Science Technology Studies treffen Postcolonial Studies, Nov 6, 2023
Die Feminist Science and Technology Studies (Feminist STS) formulieren seit 50 Jahren wichtige An... more Die Feminist Science and Technology Studies (Feminist STS) formulieren seit 50 Jahren wichtige Ansätze zu den intersektionalen Einschreibungen und Auswirkungen der Natur-und Technikwissenschaften. Deren koloniale Wurzeln und andauernde koloniale Prägung stehen in der internationalen Debatte ebenso lange in der Kritik. Das Anliegen dieser Schwerpunktausgabe ist es, feministische STS-Forschende in deutschsprachigen Kontexten in der Auseinandersetzung mit und durch Inspiration aus post-und dekolonialer Kritik zu stärken.
Papers by Bettina Papenburg
Who's Afraid of Stardust? Positionen queerer Gegenwartskunst, 2023
Handbuch Animation Studies, 2022
Von den ersten chronofotografischen Sequenzaufnahmen, der frühen Zeitrafferkinematografie und den... more Von den ersten chronofotografischen Sequenzaufnahmen, der frühen Zeitrafferkinematografie und den Trickfilmeinschüben im populärwissenschaftlichen Unterhaltungsfilm der Zwischenkriegszeit bis zu gegenwärtigen Augmented-Reality-Anwendungen in der Chirurgie und der Computersimulation mikroskopischer und makroskopischer Phänomene kommt der Animation eine wichtige Rolle in der Herstellung, Veranschaulichung und Verbreitung naturwissenschaftlichen Wissens zu. Dieses Kapitel bietet einen strukturierten Einblick in die aktuelle film-, bild- und medienwissenschaftliche Forschung zu den verschiedenen Facetten der Animation im Wissenschaftsfilm.
Gender: Laughter, hg. v. Bettina Papenburg. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA., 2017
Gender: Laughter, part of the Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks series on gender, examines th... more Gender: Laughter, part of the Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks series on gender, examines the significance of laughter in gender and sexuality studies. The volume presents laughter as an affective force that reverberates in and between bodies, shatters social hierarchies, and enables and reveals relations between and among people. Multiple interconnections between gender and laughter generate a number of pressing questions: How does laughter arise? How does laughter create community? How and whom does laughter exclude? What practices of inclusion and exclusion are effected through laughter, and what does this reveal about society at large? How can laughter function as a strategy of resistance? What does laughter subvert? What is the role of bodies, sense perception, and affect in generating laughter? How does laughter challenge and transform corporeal boundaries? What does laughter make palpable? What feelings does laughter generate and transform? The twenty-five chapters in this volume explore these questions and related concerns in five thematic parts: Gender and Genre; The Carnivalesque and the Grotesque; Tonalities of Laughter; Performance and Artifice; and Materialities. An introduction, numerous engaging illustrations, a glossary of key terms, and a comprehensive index provide additional context and assistance to students, instructors, and general readers. The Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks series on gender presents an exceptional opportunity for many people, especially undergraduate students, to become more familiar with the usefulness and pleasure of "doing gender and sexuality studies." The introductory volume along with subsequent volumes on Animals, God, Laughter, Love, Matter, Nature, Space, Time, and War offer a conceptual approach that encourages a thoroughly cross-, trans-, and interdisciplinary exploration of so-called universal themes. A variety of sexually, racially, and gender-sensitive critical perspectives are employed to investigate foundational questions addressed by feminist scholars and scientists. Chapters in each volume are newly commissioned and hence based on fresh and topical research and debates from fields such as philosophy, anthropology, literature, art, music, social sciences, (old and new) media, history, science, religion, and others. Both individually and as a series, the handbooks constitute a resolutely interdisciplinary project in the sense given to the term by Roland Barthes: "In order to do interdisciplinary work, it is not enough to take a 'subject' (a theme) and to arrange two or three sciences around it. Interdisciplinary study consists in creating a new object, which belongs to no one."
Doing Gender in Medien-, Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften. Eine Einführung, hg. v. Rosemarie Buikema und Kathrin Thiele. Münster: LIT-Verlag, 2017
Frauen wurde für Jahrhunderte die Fähigkeit zu kritischem Denken abgesprochen. Diese verbreitete ... more Frauen wurde für Jahrhunderte die Fähigkeit zu kritischem Denken abgesprochen. Diese verbreitete Aberkennung der Geisteskraft war die Grundlage für den Aus-schluss von Frauen aus Universitäten und Kunstakademien in ganz Europa. Frauen wurden über das Reproduktionsvermögen ihrer Körper definiert und waren eng assoziiert mit den Leidenschaften, den Gefühlen und den Affekten (Lloyd 1985). Weshalb sich vor diesem geschichtlichen Hintergrund aus feministischer Perspektive heute mit dem Affekt befassen? Wie kann körperlich verankertes, in der Erfahrung gründendes Wissen einen Beitrag zur Wissenschaft leisten und wie verändert dieses Wissen die Wissenschaft? Welchen Stellenwert hat die Beschrei-bung von Wahrnehmungen und Sinneseindrücken im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs? Die Beschäftigung mit dem Konnex von Affekt, Gender und Wissen ist aus epistemologischen Gründen dringend geboten. Die kritische und kreative Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen Erfahrung ermöglicht eine andere Form des Wissens: Passioniertes, leiblich rückgebundenes, erfahrungsbasiertes und verantwortungs-bewusstes Wissen erweitert einen rein rationalen Zugang zum Wissen und zur Wissensproduktion und ermöglicht eine Neubestimmung der eigenen Verortung in der Gesellschaft und in der Welt. Affekt -- eine spürbare Intensität, die Atmosphäre in einem Raum -- wird un-terhalb der Wahrnehmungsschwelle übertragen und schlägt sich als körperliche Anspannung und Entspannung nieder. Affekte sind unwillkürlich, nicht bewusst, ansteckend und bis zu einem gewissen Grade automatisch. Daher steht der Affekt in einem Spannungsverhältnis zur Konzeption des rationalen Subjekts, der klar abgegrenzten Einheit des in sich selbst abgeschlossenen Individuums, das seit Jahrhunderten als einzig fähiger Akteur des kritischen Denkens begriffen wurde. Im Gegensatz dazu rufen die Arbeitsweisen des Affekts Verbundenheit, In-teraktion und Interdependenz auf.
Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary edited by M.Bunz, B.M. Kaiser and K. Thiele, 2017
Affect - a palpable intensity the atmosphere in a room - is transmitted below the threshold of co... more Affect - a palpable intensity the atmosphere in a room - is transmitted below the threshold of conscious perception, manifesting as bodily tension and relaxation. Affect is involuntary, non-conscious, contagious, and to a certain deree automatic. Thus affect is at odds with the conception of the rational subject, a clearly bounded entity, the self-contained individual that is markedly differentiated from others, which for centuries has been assumed to be the sole agent capable of critical thinking. Rather, the very workings of affect hint at connectedness, at interaction, at inter-dependency....
Semiotic Rotations: Modes of Meaning in Cultural Worlds, 2007
Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 35.2 (Spring, 2013)
Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics, edited by Bettina Papenburg and Marta Zarzycka, IB Tauris, London, Jan 2013
Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics, edited by Bettina Papenburg and Marta Zarzycka, IB Tauris, London, 2013
The grotesque image is 'opposed to all that is finished and polished, to all pomposity, a collect... more The grotesque image is 'opposed to all that is finished and polished, to all pomposity, a collectively enacted bodily mode that resists against every ready-made solution in the sphere of thought and world outlook'. 1
Global Bodies. Mediale Repräsentationen des Körpers, hg. von Ivo Ritzer und Marcus Stiglegger, Bertz & Fischer, Berlin, 2012
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Books by Bettina Papenburg
of perception through the prismatic lens of feminist theory.
Acclaimed scholars analyse a wide range of seminal case studies coming from different media: digital photography, painting, video, film and multimedia art. They explore here a number of transgressive movements that significantly reconfigure the relationship between the body and the image.
Unlike other books on the complex relationship between politics and aesthetics, Carnal Aesthetics seeks to provide a novel approach to art and culture by challenging the primacy of vision and by injecting an intersectional perspective into the fields of visual studies, film and media studies, as well as trauma studies. It will be a significant contribution for scholars across these dynamic fields of exploration who deal with the socio-political nature of contemporary visual culture in their work."
Special Journal Issues by Bettina Papenburg
Papers by Bettina Papenburg
of perception through the prismatic lens of feminist theory.
Acclaimed scholars analyse a wide range of seminal case studies coming from different media: digital photography, painting, video, film and multimedia art. They explore here a number of transgressive movements that significantly reconfigure the relationship between the body and the image.
Unlike other books on the complex relationship between politics and aesthetics, Carnal Aesthetics seeks to provide a novel approach to art and culture by challenging the primacy of vision and by injecting an intersectional perspective into the fields of visual studies, film and media studies, as well as trauma studies. It will be a significant contribution for scholars across these dynamic fields of exploration who deal with the socio-political nature of contemporary visual culture in their work."
Dieses Symposium möchte untersuchen, wie feministische, queere und trans* Musiker*innen, Filmemacher*innen, Fotograf*innen und Performer*innen zur Popkultur beitragen. Welche Affekte lösen ihre Arbeiten aus, wie und zu welchem Zweck berühren sie ihr Publikum? Wie setzen queere Popstars ihre Berühmtheit, Mode und Performance ein, um mehrdeutige Botschaften über neue Formen von Gender, race, class und Begehren in Umlauf zu bringen und um die Grenzziehungen dessen, was als menschlich erachtet wird, erneut zu verhandeln? Welche alternativen, emanzipatorischen Formen Differenz zu leben und sich kreativ auf Differenzerfahrungen zu beziehen, ermöglichen ihre Arbeiten?