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Ruth Sonderegger

Philosophy and Aesthetic Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her main fields of research are the history of aesthetics (in the context of colonial capitalism), practice theories, cultural and resistance studies. Homepage at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Her publications include Art and the Critique of Ideology After 1989 (co-edited with E. Birkenstock, M. J. Hinderer Cruz, and J. Kastner, 2013); Pierre Bourdieu und Jacques Rancière. Ästhetisches Regime oder ästhetische Disposition? (co-edited with J. Kastner, 2014); Vom Leben der Kritik. Kritische Praktiken – und die Notwendigkeit ihrer geopolitischen Situierung, 2019Polyphone Ästhetik (co-authored with Christoph Brunner, Sofia Bempeza, Katharina Hausladen, and Ines Kleesattel, 2019). From 2023 to 2025 she was part of the research project “Perception, Jurisdiction, and Valorization in Colonial Modernity – On the Nexus of Accumulation, Race, and Aesthetics”: https://accumulation-race-aesthetics.org/

She is part of the transversal.at collective since 2012.