Guest Lecture by
Dr. Katharina Motyl (Mannheim)

Tuesday, January 21, 2:15 pm
ELP 3, Room 1.29 (No registration necessary)

This talk draws on the rhetorical and visual analysis of written posts and multimodal memes published in anti-feminist online forums such as reddit to argue that digital anti-feminism constitutes a space in which some users collectively radicalize to embrace alt-right ideologies at large (or are purposefully enticed to radicalize by alt-right activists, for instance, by redpilling).

After briefly characterizing the groups constituting the manosphere, Dr. Motyl shares three observations regarding the interconnections between digital media ecologies, anti-feminism, and the alt-right: First, the anonymity and the networked harassment that web 2.0 afford have greatly radicalized anti-feminist and anti-gender discourses. Second, anti-feminism and anti-genderism function as the ideological glue that binds the various groups constituting the alt-right together. Third, since the late aughts, anti-feminism and anti-gender politics have moved from the margins of the internet to the center of Western societies and polities – this ‘migration’ has moved the boundaries of what is sayable in parliaments and other ‘offline’ spaces of political discourse. The talk’s third part considers the rhetorical strategies, aesthetics, and affective appeals that select anti-feminist social-media posts deploy to conjure masculine and heterosexual domination and to entice individual, socially isolated users to experience empowerment by joining a (virtual, yet real) collective. The antifeminist vanguard of the alt-right, in short, succeeds in convincing users that their feelings of marginalization constitute subversive knowledge regarding the true power dynamics in Western societies, which not only oppress men, but which also privilege ethnic and racial minorities over white people, who will soon be ‘replaced’ unless they start resisting.

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List of exchange places.

For questions regarding the Erasmus+ program in general, please attend the online consultation offered by the International Office or contact the Departmental Exchange Coordinator, Mr. Li (yunong.liuni-greifswaldde).

Interested applicants should send the following application documents in one PDF file named after “LASTNAME_ERASMUS_2526” to Mr. Li (yunong.liuni-greifswaldde).

Application deadline: End of day on 05.01.2025

Application documents:

• Finished application form
• Letter of motivation in English, transcripts of Records at the University of Greifswald
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• Curriculum vitae
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Brooklyn ist down, Brooklyn ist in – auf jeden Fall aber ist es immer eine Geschichte wert. Jahrzehntelang im Schatten von Manhattan hat sich Brooklyn vor allem seit der Jahrtausendwende zu so etwas wie dem ironisch schlagenden Herzen der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur entwickelt, mit Autor:innen wie Paul Auster, Jennifer Egan, Colson Whitehead, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss und Jhumpa Lahiri.

Der Bogen des literarischen Brooklyns, dem man in diesem Buch folgen kann, fängt aber bereits bei Walt Whitmans Rhapsodien auf die Brooklyn Ferry und Hart Cranes modernistischer Feier der Brooklyn Bridge an, und zieht sich über den Beginn des "Brooklyn Cool" bei Truman Capote und dem February House bis zur Gegenwart bei Jonatham Lethem und Paula Fox.

Verlagsseite:
https://www.etk-muenchen.de/search/Details.aspx?subject=literatur&sort=5&ISBN=9783967079593

Interview zu dem Buch im Deutschlandfunk mit Prof. Dr. Domsch:
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/lesart-die-ganze-sendung-dlf-kultur-4e304978-100.html

Kontakt:
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Domsch​​​​​​​