The Serial Politics of Pop Aesthetics: Superhero Comics and Science Fiction Novels

A Pop
A01

Principal Investigators

Team Members

Dr. Alexa Lucke

Former Members

Anne Deckbar (Researcher)
Laura Désirée Haas (Researcher)

Subproject A01 takes up the heuristics of the CRG as it investigates changing scales of evalu-ation under conditions of quantitative attention measurement in very popular examples of ‘low culture’. Focusing on the superheroes Captain America (since 1941) and Perry Rhodan (since 1961) and accessing their reception in fan mail, fanzines, forums, blogs, and wikis, the project assesses the consequences of the shifting high/low axiology on the aesthetics of these serial characters and the legitimization of their political nature. These consequences, the project proposes, are symptomatic for the transformations of the popular around 1950 and 2000.

Populäre Affekte

Workshop

03. – 05. Dezember 2025
AH-A 210/11
(Herrengarten)

03.12.25

Konferenz

31. Januar – 01. Februar 2025
Clemens Sels Museum Neuss
Am Obertor
41460 Neuss

31.01.25

Comics of the Anthropocene: Graphic Narrative at the End of Nature

Vortrag

Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. José Alaniz (Washington, Seattle)
17. Juni 2024
16:00 – 18:00
AH-A 217/18 and webex

17.06.24

Vortrag

Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Carol Tilley (School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois)

September 15th 2023
16:00 – 18:00
AH-A 217/18 and Webex

15.09.23

Workshop

23. – 24. Februar 2023
Ort: AH-A 217/18

23.02.23

Workshop

15.–16. 09. 2022
15.09. | 12:15 Uhr – 19:00 Uhr
16.09. | 09:30 Uhr – 13:30 Uhr

Location: University of Siegen
Herrengarten AH A 217/18

15.09.22

Workshop

mit Prof. Dr. Thomas Weitin, Katharina Herget, Dr. des. Anastasia Glawion, Judith Brottrager, Zsofia Pilz (TU Darmstadt, LitLab), Martina Schories (Datenvisualisierung, SFB 1472), Luca Hammer (Scientific Programmer, SFB 1472) und dem TP A01 (SFB 1472): Anne Deckbar, Laura Haas, Prof. Dr. Daniel Stein, Prof. Dr. Niels Werber

19.– 20. Mai 2022

Raum: AH 217/18

19.05.22