Welcome to Carl's Culture Club, a podcast by students of the University of Oldenburg! We explore the questions: What is happening here and what is culture? With us you get culture on your ears, even beyond established cultural institutions. We look for culture in everyday life, because culture is everywhere! Whether cinema, Botanical Garden or bowling club!

Botanical Garden

Bowling club

Cinema

From lucid dreaming and sleep in public and virtual worlds to clubs and private bedrooms, the project explores different aspects of sleep. The common focus is on the intermediate spaces of sleep and the associated practices that can be recognised between the pairs of opposites .

In the project, the students negotiate sleep and the objects or routines located in the context as cultural phenomena, implicitly questioning the interpretative sovereignty surrounding the topic of sleep, which until now has tended to be assigned to psychology, neuroscience or, at most, social science.

Along the lines of the central question "How are feelings regulated in the public sphere?", the students are not focussing on feelings as natural components of human existence, but rather as the active actions of each individual. In combination with the concept of the public sphere(s), a thematic field opens up in which feelings are negotiated, standardised or even sanctioned as practices.

Focussing on the five feelings of hate, shame, queer joy, female anger and jealousy , the students in the project use various methods to research different public spheres in order to ultimately develop an idea of the significance of feelings and their regulation in everyday life.