Aud. X7 (Building 70)
Danneskjold-Samsøes Allé 53
1435 København K
Representation and Orientation: Gestures of Capitalist Realism by Peer Illner (Cultural theorist, PhD, University of Copenhagen)
The lecture will historicise the desire called cognitive mapping and elaborate its different techniques.
How do you represent an abstraction? The cultural critic Fredric Jameson asked this question in 2011 at the height of the global financial crisis when markets went haywire and economists were struggling to explain what was happening. For Jameson, this moment presented a key challenge for art. He called for an aesthetic of cognitive mapping, able to visualise the tangled threads of a global and crisis-ridden capitalism. Six years after Jameson’s call, the project of cognitive mapping remains an urgent problem for contemporary art production.
