In her lecture "Thinking Outside the Box: on Critical Thinking in the Age of Technologically Reproduced Hate Speech" Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl conducts a philosophical approach to the theme of the exhibition, by pursuing the question of what makes emotions political or what politicization of emotions means. The Austrian scientist conducts her research in the frame of a phenomenological awareness and action theory about moral and political emotions, among others. As a philosopher, she investigates the usefulness to categorize emotions as private or public, political or apolitical, positive or negative. If politics is understood as the acting formation of public life and emotions are a strong motivational factor of human action, politics includes the cultivation of emotions. Emotions are complex as they exhibit a differentiated internal structure and are linked in a diverse manner to social norms, that is why responsible politics of emotions cannot confine itself to only deal with the "visible" part of (especially intolerable) emotional expressions. Moreover, it has to consider questions of the formation, habitualizing and immunization of emotions.

Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. phil. Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl (*1965 Salzburg, lives in Graz) is a professor at the institute of philosophy at the University of Graz. Since 2008, she is European editor of the Journal "Husserl Studies" and since 2009 she is the president of the Austrian Society of Phenomenology. Together with John J. Drummond, she recently released the anthology "Emotional Experiences: Ethical and Social Significance" (London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). In her research she investigates, next to epistemological and ethical questions, political emotions, such as indignation, forgiveness and gratitude – as well as hate speeches.