Friday, 21 April 2017, 07–09 pm

Dandyism is a specific form of warding off the thought that I can be explained. What is necessary for success is to immediately recognize and interrupt regularities in one’s own behavior. The dandy is on an inward spiral, he subtracts meaning from everything he has become aware of: that is not you. Or (in a dispute with Günther Anders) “Promethean defiance,” wanting to remain a subject vis-á-vis objects that are better than me – “I don’t want to be made”; “… especially not by myself”; “I don’t want to play a role”; “I don’t want a mission”; “I have no fate.”
Oswald Wiener

Oswald Wiener born 1935 in Vienna, lives in Kapfenstein (Styria)
1953 – 1958 musician
1954 – 1959 experimental poetry (“Vienna Group”)
1959 – 1977 business: data processing and catering
1969 relocation to West Berlin
1973 – today studies of cognitive psychology
1986 relocation to Canada
1992 – 2004 professor of aesthetics at the Art Academy Düsseldorf
2013 relocation to Austria

Publications (selection): starker toback, (with Konrad Bayer), Dead Language Press, 1962; die verbesserung von mitteleuropa, Rowohlt,1969, 3rd edition Jung und Jung, 2014; Schriften zur Erkenntnistheorie, Springer, 1996; Eine elementare Einführung in die Theorie der Turing-Maschinen (with M. Bonik and R. Hoedicke), Springer-Verlag, 1998; Literarische Aufsätze, Löcker, 1998; Materialien zu meinem Buch Vorstellungen, Ed. by F. Lesak, TU Vienna, 2000; Anecdotes on “Struktur”. 30–45 Ausschnitt 07, Ed. by F. Lesak, TU Vienna, 2002; Selbstbeobachtung (with T. Raab, T. Eder, M. Schwarz et al.), Suhrkamp, 2015.

Records
Selten gehörte Musik with Günter Brus, Gerhard Rühm, Dieter Roth, and others
Wichtel und die Wuchteln with Ingrid Wiener, Jan St. Werner, Rosa Barba, Klaus Sander, and others

1997 Exhibition Venice Biennale (with F. Achleitner, H.C. Artmann, K. Bayer✝, G. Rühm)

1987 Großer österreichischer Staatspreis für Literatur; Großer Preis der Stadt Wien für Literatur; Dr. phil. h.c. (University of Klagenfurt).

This lecture takes place in the context of the current exhibition Michael Krebber The Living Wedge. In collaboration with Robert Walser-Zentrum.