On Culture's Spheres of Political Action in the Neoliberal Welfare State

Programme
10.45 Arrival and coffee
11.00 Welcome & PIs Presentation of the general research project
11.20–12.20 Individual presentations, departing from the Report by the Swedish Agency for Cultural Policy Analysis, Så fri är konsten (2020) / This Is How Free Art Is:
11.20 Gustav Strandberg (Philosophy, Södertörn University) The Heteronomy of the Creative Industries
11.40 Kim West (Critic, Stockholm; author of The Exhibitionary Complex) Administration and the Project of Autonomy
12.00 Josefine Wikström (Dance, Stockholm University of the Arts) From Autonomy to Social Form
12.20 Discussion
13.15–14.15 Lunch
14.15–17.00 Seminar on Philosophy and the Criticism of Cultural Policy
14.15 Main texts
Theodor W. Adorno, ‘Culture and Administration' (1960) Swedish Agency for Cultural Policy Analysis, Så fri är konsten (2020)/ This Is How Free Art Is – English summary, pp. 18–28
15.45 Break
16.00 Supplementary Texts
Tony Bennett, Differing Diversities: Transversal Study on the Theme of Cultural Policy and Cultural Diversity (2001), Part 1, pp. 7–69
Peter Osborne, 'Whoever Speaks of Culture Speaks of Administration as Well': Disputing Pragmatism in Cultural Studies', Cultural Studies, Vol. 20, no. 1 (2006)
17.00 Close