Buchvorstellung Frieder Bohaumilitzky

Book presentation Buchvorstellung Frieder Bohaumilitzky: Metapolitik der Dinge. Materielle Kultur und rechtes Denken.

Right-wing thinking has once again become hegemonic in society. Material culture plays a decisive role in this. It has gained enormous significance for political socialization. Academic discourses that attribute to objects a constitutive effect on the political subject and its cultural practices are meeting with a growing desire to bring about a transformation of society through design, architecture, theater, or art.

In his book, Frieder Bohaumilitzky examines the connection between right-wing thinking and things. He documents how the ambivalent idea of political subjectivation through things has come to be realized as a comprehensive dispositif—ranging from the abstract arguments of contemporary philosophers to concrete right-wing cultural practices of the present. In doing so, he demonstrates that essentialist patterns of thought and authoritarian yearnings were present in these discourses from an early stage, how this way of thinking was made productive, and how it was ultimately applied to civil society through right-wing metapolitics. He no longer locates right-wing thinking solely on the margins of society but shows how it emerged from its supposed center.

Frieder Bohaumilitzky is a designer, political scientist, and curator. He curates exhibitions, intervenes in institutions, and explores the relationship between material culture and political systems, with a focus on the political strategies of the far right. He earned his doctorate from the HFBK Hamburg; prior to that, he studied political science at the University of Hamburg, as well as design at the HFBK Hamburg and the Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design in Jerusalem.