Anna-Christine Pilz
Anna-Christine Pilz
Doctoral project
Configurations of posthuman corporeality in the field of tension between utopia and dystopia (working title)
Abstract
The dissertation examines current discourses on posthuman corporeality in contemporary literary utopias/dystopias and explores the extent to which the posthuman harbours risks and opportunities along the lines of the tension inherent in this genre. A connection is postulated between the critical medium of dystopia and the futurologies of trans- and posthumanism in terms of the history of ideas and formal aesthetics, which can be explored 'along the lines of the body'. Posthuman corporeality is not only essentially characterised by digital technology, but also connects different fields of knowledge in politics, economics and ethics under the aspect of biopower.
Short biography
since 10/2020
Scholarship holder in the MWK doctoral programme 'Shaping the Future. Transformation of the Present through Scenarios of Digitalisation' at the University of Oldenburg
03/2017 - 02/2019
Master's programme in German Studies at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz
since 03/2017
Freelance work in proofreading and editing
02/2012 - 02/2017
Bachelor's degree programme in German Studies at the University of Graz
Publications/Lectures
01/2019
The burden of silence. The history of a paradox and an exemplary analysis of its realisation in Austrian literature. Available online at unipub.uni-graz.at/download/pdf/3106307.
04/2015
System test: 'Handkeonline', lecture at the Literaturhaus Graz on the occasion of the end of project on the Peter Handke research platform
10/2013
Lecture/workshop: Breathing and speaking techniques for the stage I + II, BÜHNE Authentic/iMPULS Aussee