Current students
Mr Sebastian Wedler, BA (Zurich)
Member of the Department of Music
Biography
Sebastian Wedler is originally from Germany, and did his undergraduate degree at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where he studied Musicology, Law, and Psychology.
He was recently awarded the prize 'Link 2 Future' by the Institute of Psychoanalysis Zurich (PSZ) for one of his essays in the field of music aesthetics.
In his Master's dissertation under the supervision of Max Paddison he distills aspects of a theory of musical form from Theodor W. Adorno's writings.
Publications
Articles
- ‘Der „Anti-Ödipus" als Impetus für eine dekonstruktivistische Musikästhetik. Versuch eines Beitrags zu einer Kritischen Theorie der Musik aus (post)strukturell psychoanalytischer Perspektive' in Heinz, H. (ed.) Festschrift für Rudolf Heinz (title TBA) (Essen: Die Blaue Eule, 2012)
- ‘Differenzmonitum „Adialektik" - zur Verunmöglichung von Identität. Eine vergleichende Studie zu „Wiederholung", „Differenz" und „Psychotik" bei Adorno, Deleuze und Lacan' in Hutfless, E., Widholm, R. (eds.) Identifizierungen (Verhältnisse, vol. I) (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2011) pp. 101-118
Book Reviews
- (with Peter Schneider) Review of Symbolische Ordnungen umschreiben. Autorität, Autorschaft und Handlungsmacht by Insa Härtel (Bielefeld: transcript, 2009) in Psyche 66:2 (2012)
- (with Peter Schneider) Review of Lacan. Eine Einführung in die strukturale Psychoanalyse by August Ruhs (Vienna: Löcker, 2010) in Psyche (submitted and accepted)
Research Interests
- European music history from the 18th century to the present (with a primary focus on the First and the Second Viennese Schools, and the New Complexity)
- Music analysis (set theory in particular)
- Critical theory (Adorno)
- Concept of musical time
- Sonata theory
- Carl Dahlhaus
- French post-structuralism (Derrida, Lacan, Deleuze)