Pop Aesthetics (A02)

• Subject Area: German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 438577023

Pop aesthetics – from the Independent Group to many contemporary cultural studies and essayistic elaborations – offer new descriptions and evaluations of phenomena that have traditionally been called ‘popular’ and ‘mass cultural’. The aim of the subproject is to reconstruct these predominantly still unexplored pop aesthetics, to present them in context, to critically analyze and systematize their principles, theses, modes of argumentation as well as their forms of narration and presentation.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1472: Transformations of the Popular
• Applicant Institution: Universität Siegen
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Thomas Hecken