Description du projet
Explorer l’héritage des écrits pamphlétaires
Depuis le début des Lumières et tout au long de l’histoire, des pamphlets ont été imprimés et distribués dans l’espoir de façonner l’opinion publique avec des textes idéologiques. Le pamphlet a toujours été à l’avant-garde des grandes transformations philosophiques, sociales et politiques, ainsi que des processus de (dé)démocratisation et de (dé)colonisation. Par exemple, depuis la chute du mur de Berlin, il est réapparu comme une force de transformation et de polémique vitale dans les sociétés occidentales libérales, suscitant des discussions souvent polarisées sur des questions controversées. Le projet ArtsAutonomy, financé par l’UE, étudiera les événements liés aux pamphlets, y compris les «tranches» analytiques de l’évolution de l’opinion publique sur les énoncés des pamphlets, et ce à partir de transcriptions de délibérations publiques, de lettres ouvertes, de commentaires en ligne, de réactions d’utilisateurs et de consommateurs, et des réseaux sociaux.
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Concise, massively ideological texts have long been perceived as constitutive of the development and transformation of opinion and policy in the public sphere. At least since the early Enlightenment, the pamphlet has been at the forefront of major philosophical, social, and political transformations, including processes of democratization and dedemocratization, colonization and decolonization, the universalization of civil and civic rights, the enforcement of political or territorial autonomy, and the critique of labor exploitation. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, pamphleteering has reemerged as a vital transformative and polemical force in liberal Western societies, prompting often polarized discussions of contentious issues. By integrating philological, historical, and politological research perspectives, ArtsAutonomy will produce a first systematic, large-scale account of contemporary pamphleteering and shed new light on the perceived ongoing radicalization of political, cultural, and social ideals and discourses in contemporary Europe and the United States. We intend to achieve our epistemic goals by studying “pamphletary events”, i.e. events which unfold in the public sphere and which engage both a pamphletary text and interpretative competences widely distributed among the general reading public. ArtsAutonomy will produce several thematically organized case studies of pamphletary events, including analytic “slices” of evolving public opinion on pamphletary statements, as recorded in transcripts of public deliberations, open letters, online commentary, user and consumer feedback, and social media. Our multidisciplinary approach will provide a unique insight into the concrete current political agency of one of the oldest literary forms, as well as into the philological-interpretative competences upon which pamphletary events and their normalization are predicated.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitution d’accueil
80539 Muenchen
Allemagne