Saskia Kersenboom is exploring the implications of Ferdinand de Saussure’s concept of "langage" for contemporary Anthropology. This investigation is carried out by a radically new methodology based on the use and representational possibilities that interactive Multimedia offers today. Her line of research runs from westem linguistic theories (de Saussure, Merleau Ponty, Foucault) to oral traditions. The latter she personally knows well by practice and performance of contemporary drama, music and dance (ranging from the academies, conservatories etc. to performing and directing/conducting).

The central theme for this seminar is her hypothesis: "Culture is a Performing Art". The three lectures should give an outline of this vision on an integral Anthropology, that unites the three types of cognition: 1. propositional knowledge, 2. practical knowledge and 3. knowledge of familiarity, and its possible multimedial representations.

Ein detaillierteres Programm und Literatur werden während der Semesterferien im Kopierraum des ESZ aufgelegt werden.