Im Schatten des Schweigens

The secret is a place of manifold relationships. Not only do people meet in this place, but their entanglements in fields of power, desire and knowledge are also revealed. Lotte Warnsholdt focuses on the social and historical effects of secrecy and addresses the ambivalent effects of emancipation and marginalisation. To this end, she draws on theorists such as Koselleck, Kittler, Horkheimer and Hartman. With a focus on the cultural techniques of silence and silencing, the range of a semantics of secrecy opens up - and the relationship between modern theoretical history and the vulnerability of modern subjects.