Aneka Brunßen (Universität Bremen): Publications - PhilPeople

Universität Bremen
Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften

Other (Part-time)

CV

Bremen, HB, Germany

0000-0001-8875-2597

Areas of Interest

History of Western Philosophy

Metaphysics and Epistemology

The Basis of Meaning

Philosophy of Linguistics

Subjectivity and Consciousness

Intersubjectivity

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The Politicization of the German Ethical Consumer: A Qualitative Analysis of an Ethical Fashion Network and its Production of Ethical Consumer Subjectivity
Dissertation, Universität Bremen. 2020.

Consumer Ethics
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The Synthesis of Social Media Dialectics and the Rise of Alt-Right Memes

The conference paper follows Lacanian and Freudian discussions concerning (obsessional) neurosis to locate the development of alt-right meme culture expression in a dialectic of political affect. The internet meme response to the MAGA hat kid scandal of January 2019 is analyzed under the scope of recent transformations in media culture and illuminates the psychoanalytical foundation of political reactionism as a counterproductive mechanism of identity politics, namely, the desire for identity le…Read more
The conference paper follows Lacanian and Freudian discussions concerning (obsessional) neurosis to locate the development of alt-right meme culture expression in a dialectic of political affect. The internet meme response to the MAGA hat kid scandal of January 2019 is analyzed under the scope of recent transformations in media culture and illuminates the psychoanalytical foundation of political reactionism as a counterproductive mechanism of identity politics, namely, the desire for identity legitimization.