{"id":5229,"date":"2025-02-20T15:49:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T15:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/veranstaltung\/the-art-of-social-and-political-performance-actors-demagogues-self-promoters"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:14:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:14:28","slug":"the-art-of-social-and-political-performance-actors-demagogues-self-promoters","status":"publish","type":"kreisky_event","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/veranstaltung\/the-art-of-social-and-political-performance-actors-demagogues-self-promoters","title":{"rendered":"THE ART OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PERFORMANCE: ACTORS, DEMAGOGUES, SELF-PROMOTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Richard Sennett: THE ART OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PERFORMANCE\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ykI8SdvDy4A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Richard Sennett: THE ART OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PERFORMANCE \u2013 ACTORS, DEMAGOGUES, SELF-PROMOTERS\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" data-src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/4yTm1wjZFfQoRKljg5o75a?si=047b0d4348744334&amp;utm_source=oembed\" src=\"about:blank\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<h4>Robert Misik in conversation with Richard Sennett<\/h4>\n<h4>THE ART OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PERFORMANCE: ACTORS, DEMAGOGUES, SELF-PROMOTERS<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his new book, world-famous sociologist and author Richard Sennett dissects the performer - in the German edition called \u201eDer darstellende Mensch\u201c. Sennett, who was a musician and artist before his extraordinary academic career, focuses on theatre and the emancipatory potential of art. But isn't today's dominant social character is also the performing human in a broader sense, curating his or her life, whether in social media or in the roles that he or she has to play? And doesn't the show character of politics give rise to a certain type of politician? Sennett's latest study also provides an opportunity to talk about the big picture of half a century of research. It has been 53 years since Sennett's first legendary work, \u2018The Hidden Injuries of Class\u2019, which reads as relevant today as ever - followed by \u2018The Fall of the Public Man\u2019, \u2018The Corrosion of Character\u2019, \u2018On Craftsmanship\u2019 and many other works, that deal with the interactions between individuals, identity and society. Taken together, they describe the transformation of the subjects through socialisation, as well as the alienation in neoliberalism, but at the same time they always open windows onto the utopian, onto a non-reified, communal existence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard Sennett<\/strong> grew up in the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago, attended the Julliard School in New York and then studied social relations at Harvard. Over the last five decades, he has written about social life in cities, changes in labour and social theory. His books include The Hidden Injuries of Class , The Fall of Public Man , The Corrosion of Character , The Culture of the New Capitalism , The Craftsman and Building and Dwelling . Sennett has advised the United Nations on urban issues for the past thirty years and currently serves as member of the UN Committee on Urban Initiatives. He is Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at Harvard. Among other awards, he has received the Hegel Prize, the Spinoza Prize and the Centennial Medal from Harvard University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert Misik<\/strong>, Author and Journalist<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Misik in conversation with Richard Sennett THE ART OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PERFORMANCE: ACTORS, DEMAGOGUES, SELF-PROMOTERS &nbsp; In his new book, world-famous sociologist and author Richard Sennett dissects the performer \u2013 in the German edition called \u201eDer darstellende Mensch\u201c. 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