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Dietmar Dath
In seinem Notizbuch fängt der Schriftsteller und Journalist Dietmar Dath zehn persönliche Momente über die Kunst und das Leben ein. Es geht um Beziehungen zwischen Menschen, ihren Umgang miteinander, um Kommunikation, Freundschaft, Liebe, Kunst und Kritik. Zu den Protagonisten gehören ein Mauswiesel, Daths Tochter, der Vater und die Freundin Mareike. Am Ende verdichtet sich der anfänglich vom im Kühlschrank lebenden Mauswiesel niedergelegte Gedanke zur Erkenntnis: »Das Nichtfertigwerden blüht in der Kunst als eine Form des Gelingens, es bedingt keine Fehlschläge. Das liegt daran, dass die Kunst dazu da ist, Zwecke zu erfinden, nicht dazu, sie zu erreichen. Man feiert und bespricht die Eröffnung einer Ausstellung, über die Schließung schweigt man sich aus.« Der Autor und Übersetzer Dietmar Dath (*1970) ist Redakteur bei der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung; er lebt in Frankfurt/Main, Freiburg und Leipzig. Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch
The Abolition of Species
After mankind's near-extermination, a kingdom of animals harnessing biotechnology wages a multi-planetary war against a new form of artificial intelligence.
New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction
New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction demonstrates the variety and scope of German science fiction (SF) production in literature, television, and cinema. The volume argues that speculative fictions and explorations of the fantastic provide a critical lens for studying the possibilities and limitations of paradigm shifts in society. Lars Schmeink and Ingo Cornils bring together essays that study the renaissance of German SF in the twenty-first century. The volume makes clear that German SF is both global and local—the genre is in balance between internationally dominant forms and adapting them to Germany’s reality as it relates to migration, the environment, and human rights. The essays explore a range of media (literature, cinema, television) and relevant political, philosophical, and cultural discourses.
Dirac
Die Sowjetunion ist weg, Punk ist Retrochic, die RAF Kunstgeschichte, Vernunft eine Sache von Anlageberatern, nur die alten Fragen bleiben die gleichen: Wie funktioniert Leben? Wie sollen wir leben? Und wer entscheidet darüber: Wissenschaft, Religion, Kunst, Politik? David Daleks Freunde - eine Künstlerin, ein Computerprogrammierer, ein Psychiater, eine Kranke, eine Biochemikerin und eine Hausfrau - haben die typischen Probleme von Mittdreißigern, deren Eltern eine verbindliche Antwort schuldig geblieben sind. David, Schriftsteller und Journalist im Brotberuf, hat vor allem ein Problem: Wie beschreibt man ein Leben? Genauer: Wie schreibt man einen Roman über einen, der um die Vorläufigk...
The Orchid Cage
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LOST in Media
The television series LOST initiated a wide-ranging academic debate which centered on its narrative and temporal complexity, while also addressing the massive expansion into other media and consequently crossing established genre categories. This expansion poses the essential question about the status of the original medium (television) within recent multiple media configurations. Can LOST be regarded as a symptom of television in the process of media change? What is the relation between LOST's temporality and that of television in general? And how can LOST be understood as a phenomenon of mediatized worlds? The contributions in this book examine these questions. The book's editors are members of the project "TV Series as Reflection and Projection of Change," which is part of the DFG Priority Program 1505: "Mediatized Worlds". (Series: Medien'welten. Braunschweiger Schriften zur Medienkultur - Vol. 19)
Confronting Capital and Empire
Confronting Capital and Empire inquires into the relationship between philosophy, politics and capitalism by rethinking Kyoto School philosophy in relation to history. The Kyoto School was an influential group of Japanese philosophers loosely related to Kyoto Imperial University’s philosophy department, including such diverse thinkers as Nishida Kitarō, Tanabe Hajime, Nakai Masakazu and Tosaka Jun. Confronting Capital and Empire presents a new perspective on the Kyoto School by bringing the school into dialogue with Marx and the underlying questions of Marxist theory. The volume brings together essays that analyse Kyoto School thinkers through a Marxian and/or critical theoretical perspective, asking: in what ways did Kyoto School thinkers engage with their historical moment? What were the political possibilities immanent in their thought? And how does Kyoto School philosophy speak to the pressing historical and political questions of our own moment?
Interrogations of Evolutionism in German Literature 1859-2011
Darwin’s idea has been called the best idea anyone ever had. In Interrogations of Evolutionism in German Literature 1859-2011 Nicholas Saul offers the first representative account of German literary responses to Darwinian evolutionism from Raabe and Jensen via Ernst Jünger and Botho Strauß to Dietmar Dath. Often identified with National Socialist ideology and hence notably absent from the public sphere after 1945, Darwinian thought is in fact shown to be distorted though the lens of Social Darwinism and bionationalist organicism. As Nicholas Saul shows, literature has been the main agent in public discourse for challenging such illiberal presentations, and there is a common thread of salvific individualism which leads to the new legitimacy of Darwinian discourse today.
Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa
Explores the relation between histories of violence and their contemporary commemoration.
The Case of Christian Kracht
The bestselling, contemporary Swiss author Christian Kracht is as widely celebrated as he is a source of controversy. This introduction to his work suggests locating his writings in discourses that range beyond the labels that have been traditionally assigned to them, namely “postmodernism,” camp,” and “Popliteratur.” Instead, this volume considers Kracht’s work through the lenses of “authorship,” “irony,” and “globalism.” This volume argues that there is no fixed or uniform author represented in Kracht’s corpus, explores the ironic strategies involved in Kracht’s various authorial representations, and engages the cultural exchange inherent in Kracht’s work.
