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Stefan Höhne
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Stefan.hoehne@metropolitanstudies.de
Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS)
TU Berlin
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, TEL 3-0
10587 Berlin
Dissertation
"The Passenger - Practices and administrative techniques in urban infrastructures of transit"
My dissertation project examines how the perception and symbolic order of urban infrastructures is constituted via practices of the subject and administrative techniques. The main focus of the analysis lies on the relations between the objectified regulations of this process and the subjective dimensions of the passengers’ experience.
Since the beginning of the 20th century one can witness a vital increase of fordistic infrastructures of transit as well as its immense acceleration. In course of this, places of transit – functioning as gateways and borders to urban transit spaces – gain massive distribution. The use of public structures of mobility is increasing exponentially and is becoming an everyday practice of urban life.
As user of these infrastructures, the passenger is increasingly constituted trough administrative techniques and urban spatial codes. Also, these systems of transit present a setting for behavioural expectations and cognitive effects that form and standardize the passengers’ habitus.
These interferences will be illuminated via an analysis of the economics of perception of the subject in transit as well as their structuration trough administrative techniques and urban spatial orders. My empirical focus lies on inner urban transit in New York during the second half of the 20th century.
The first part of the project intents to give a theoretical analysis to specify the figure of the passenger in the light of cultural theories. The second part will consist of a historical analysis of data regarding the behavior of the passengers and spatial regulations from the archive of the New York Museum of Transit. The evaluation of archived materials regarding the historical dynamics of transit systems of New York is intended as counter weight to the theoretical approach towards the subjective dimension of these phenomena.
The hermeneutic view on the passenger in the mirror of administrative systems will point out the interdependency between structural mechanisms of regulation and social practices. This is especially promising with regard to how sanctions and standardisations interfere with techniques of appropriation and the emancipation of the passenger.
By combining these two approaches, my research will help to understand the figuration of the passenger as a vital aspect of urban life.
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2008
DFG Fellow (German Research Foundation) at the Transatlantic Graduate Research Program Berlin - New York,Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
September 2008 – January 2009
Visiting Scholar at the Department for History, Columbia University, New York City
October 1999 – March 2007
M.A. in Cultural Studies, Philosophy and Sociology in Berlin, Leipzig, Damascus and Copenhagen.
Research interests: Urban Theory, Cultural Theory, Philosophy of Space, Artifact Theory, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Perception, Design History
Publications, Lectures etc.
Academic Conferences (selection)
July 2009
Presenter: The Inventory of the Passenger - Artifacts and Body Techniques in Urban Infrastructures of Transit
Conference: Cultural Histories of Sociability, Spaces and Mobility, University of York Department of History Cultural History Conference 2009.
July 2009
Presenter: The Perception of the Passenger - Transitory practices and perceptions in works by Hopper, Cornell and Gondry.
Conference: Mobility and Creativity: Narrative, Representation & Performance, Department of English, University of Surrey, UK.
June 2009
Concept and Realization of the Workshop »Artifact Theories« (with Heike Delitz, Bamberg University).
June 2009
Presenter: Nightmares and Lucid Dreams of New York City.
Conference: Cities and the State of Exception/State of Emergency- Ausnahmezustand and the Urban Condition. Fifth Annual Conference of the Transatlantic Graduate Program, Berlin - New York at the Center for Metropolitan Studies Berlin.
Mai 2009
Presenter: »In the Hades of Names« - The production and Consumtion of Space in transit maps
Conference: Verortet, Entgrenzt, Verräumlicht. Konzeptionelle und empirische Beobachtungen zu Ort und Raum. Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig in Kooperation mit dem Leipziger Kreis. Forum für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Leipzig.
March 2009
Presenter: »This gentleman did not travel - he described a circumference « - The Genesis of the modern passenger in Jules Vernes »Around the World in Eighty Days«.
Conference: The magic of narratives. Project »Realistic anthropology«, Dresden University
November 2008
Presenter: Tokens, Suckers and the New York Token War
Conference: Infrastructures in the 1920s and 1930s Humboldt University Berlin
September 2008
Presenter: Efficiency in Movement
Conference: In Search for the Post-Fordist City, Fordham University, New York City
Publications (selection)
2009
Subway
in: Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, Hg: Ray Hutchison, Sage London (mit Bill Bang Boyer, NYU).
2008
Aviopolis - urban places of transit.
in: "VOR-STÄDTE - Leben außerhalb des Zentrums / FAUX-BOURGS - Vivre en marge du centre", ed. Wolfgang Hörner / Bastian, Puplished by Martin Meidenbauer.
2007
Jonathan Meese, Superflex ,Sarah Morris
Texts in the collection catalogue of the Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig
2005
intervalle_01 - aspects in modern life
Editor and Producer of the audio book with texts by various professors of humanities. Published by Voland & Quist, Leipzig.
2003
The Invention of Europe
Documentary for the Boell Foundation and the Foundation of Weimar Classics
Employment and Projects
Employment and Projects (selection)
Since February 2008
Design and Realization of the Exhibition: In Pursuit of Knowledge, Grolier Club, New York (opening September 2009).Since 2007
Realization of the Documentary „7 hectare Land" (with Martin Behnke, Berlin) Award by SommerFilm, Leipzig.
August 2007 - January 2009
Assistant in the contemporary art galleries Jocelyn Wolff (Paris) and k o w gallery (Berlin)
Since September 2006
Organization of the monthly academic Talkshow ThomasiusCLUB in the Club Horns Erben, Leipzig.
April 2005 - February 2006
Realization and curatorial assistance for the exhibition Shrinking Cities - Interventions in the Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig (GfZK).
Teaching Experience (selection)
Since 2006
Lectures on cultural philosophy in the University Leipzig, Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig (GfZK) and the Weimar Summer Courses
2000 - 2007
Teaching of courses on intercultural exchange, art and sustainability, urban development and philosophy for various institutions (pro international e.V., Sprache und Bildung etc.)