The Return of Resentment? Stereotypes in the Media, Cultural Philosophy and Literature

The conference project at the Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf aims to take a closer look at the connections and interrelationships between stereotyping and resentment, analysing both as figures of thought and in their visual and literary modelling. This raises questions about the media, political, historical and discursive conditions of the emergence, dissemination, transformation and impact of individually and collectively effective, even unconsciously reinforcing patterns of interpretation. Cultural philosophy, literature, film, (digital) media reporting and the exchange of information on social media are part of the medial, narrative, interpretative constitution of cultural and political stereotypes. On the one hand, their serial repetition leads to solidification and historical authentication, but on the other hand it also enables liquefaction, change or even revocation. Their standardising, sometimes seemingly rigid and yet variable and malleable characteristics, which often result in acts of discrimination, (self-)stigmatisation and social inequality, will be examined using case studies from the fields of media, literature and cultural philosophy.