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Santa Teresa
Even prior to her widely observed 500th anniversary, Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) was already considered one of the most important authors of occidental mysticism. This volume gathers together contributions from a multitude of disciplines to explore the writings and reception of the Spanish author and saint. Previously disregarded lines of tradition are explored for a new understanding of her oeuvre, which is examined here with special regard to the potential to affect its readers. Teresa proves to not only be an accomplished, but also a very literary writer. Santa Teresa proves to be a figure of cultural memory, and the diffusion of her thinking is traced up to the present, whereby a recurrent focus is put on the phenomenon of ecstasy. Part of the widespread resonance of her work is the image of the iconic saint whose emergence as an international phenomenon is presented here for the first time. The volume is closed by an interview with Marina Abramovi answering four questions about Teresa.
Pazze di Lui - Mad for Him: Hagiographic Stereotypes, Mental Disturbances and Anthropological Implications of Female Saintliness in Italy and Abroad from the 13th to the 20th Century
The aim of this book is to investigate the delicate relationship between female sanctity and madness, in a time-frame extending from medieval until contemporary times. Constellated by visions, ecstatic raptures, morbid rituals, stigmata and obsessions, the complex phenomenology of female mysticism appears in fact to be articulated and polymorphous, traversed by 'representations' that it seems possible to link to the wide spectrum of mental disorders, as well to the hagiographic stereotypes and anthropological implications. Male and female scholars from different disciplines (from history to philology, from anthropology to art history, from theology to literary criticism, from psychiatry to psychoanalysis) try to outline a thematic and problematic itinerary, intended to examine, step by step, potential pathological aspects and contexts of reference for the purpose of attempting to reconstruct the complex evolutionary trajectory of female mystical language.
Medienphantastik
Die rasante Verbreitung phantastischer Literatur ab dem 19. Jahrhundert ereignet sich zeitgleich mit der Durchsättigung der abendländischen Gesellschaft mit neuen technischen Medien. Die in der Folge explosionsartige Beschleunigung gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation sowie die Proliferation neuer Technologien führen zu einer inkommensurablen Fülle von irreduziblen Weltbildern. Wird phantastische Literatur häufi g als Instrument zur Inszenierung widersprüchlicher epistemologischer oder ontologischer Konzepte beschrieben, so fokussiert die vorliegende Arbeit ihr Potenzial, die weltherstellende und weltzerspielende Kraft neuer Medien erfahrbar zu machen. Die Medienphantastik, die bei Jorge Luis Borges und Julio Cortázar Konturen gewinnt, dient in letzter Konsequenz dazu, die Vielfalt von Weltbildern, die das angehende 20. Jahrhundert prägt, als mediale Konstruktionen auszuweisen und unterschiedlichste Zugriffe auf Welt in ihrer intermedialen Überschneidung zu erkunden.
Aliens & Anorexia
It's 1996, and Chris Kraus is in Berlin, seeking a distributor for her film Gravity & Grace, described alternately as 'an experimental 16mm film about hope, despair, religious feeling and conviction' and 'an amateur intellectual's home video expanded to bulimic lengths' ... It's 1942 in Marseille, and Simone Weil is waiting for the US entry visa that will save her from the Holocaust, while writing work described alternately as a 'radical philosophy of sadness' and 'immoral, trite, irrelevant and paradoxical' ... It's the late 90s, the millennium is approaching, and Chris Kraus is in Los Angeles, not eating, waiting for her s/m partner to reply to her emails ... It's 1943, and Simone Weil is in London, completing her project of transcendence by dying of starvation ... Filled with Chris Kraus' trademark wit and frankness, unfolding to reveal the lives of ecstatic visionaries and failed artists, Aliens & Anorexia is an audacious novel about failure, empathy and sadness.
Klima
Die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftlerin Eva Horn nimmt das Klima in ihrer Imaginations- und Wissensgeschichte aus einer sinnlichen, kulturellen und historischen Perspektive in den Blick. Was ist Klima? Wenn wir heutzutage über das Klima sprechen, tun wir dies vor allem aus einer naturwissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Wir können Klima messen und berechnen, aber nicht unmittelbar erfahren. Bevor Klima als »durchschnittliches Wetter« definiert wurde, war das jedoch einmal ganz anders. Eva Horn knüpft an ein scheinbar ad acta gelegtes Wissen über das Klima an und zeigt, welche enge Verbindung zwischen Kulturen und ihrem Klima einmal bestanden hat. Von Theorien über den Einfluss von Luft und Temperatur auf Körper und Seele über das Bild des »Luftmeers« bis zu den Phantasien »kontrollierter« Klimata: Unter Rückgriff auf Medizingeschichte, Philosophie, Kunst und Literatur entwirft Eva Horn eine große Imaginationsgeschichte des Klimas, die die Debatte um die Klimakrise neu begründen und unser atmosphärisches Sensorium schulen kann.
Hatred of Capitalism
Jean Baudrillard meets Cookie Mueller in this gathering of French theory and new American fiction. Compiled in 2001 to commemorate the passing of an era, Hatred of Capitalism brings together highlights of Semiotext(e)'s most beloved and prescient works. Semiotext(e)'s three-decade history mirrors the history of American thought. Founded by French theorist and critic Sylvere Lotringer as a scholarly journal in 1974, Semiotext(e) quickly took on the mission of melding French theory with the American art world and punk underground. Its Foreign Agents, Native Agents, Active Agents and Double Agents imprints have brought together thinkers and writers as diverse as Gilles Deleuze, Assata Shakur, Bob Flanagan, Paul Virillio, Kate Millet, Jean Baudrillard, Michelle Tea, William S. Burroughs, Eileen Myles, Ulrike Meinhof, and Fanny Howe. In Hatred of Capitalism, editors Kraus and Lotringer bring these people together in the same volume for the first time.
Santa Teresa
Even prior to her widely observed 500th anniversary, Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) was already considered one of the most important authors of occidental mysticism. This volume gathers together contributions from a multitude of disciplines to explore the writings and reception of the Spanish author and saint. Previously disregarded lines of tradition are explored for a new understanding of her oeuvre, which is examined here with special regard to the potential to affect its readers. Teresa proves to not only be an accomplished, but also a very literary writer. Santa Teresa proves to be a figure of cultural memory, and the diffusion of her thinking is traced up to the present, whereby a recurrent focus is put on the phenomenon of ecstasy. Part of the widespread resonance of her work is the image of the iconic saint whose emergence as an international phenomenon is presented here for the first time. The volume is closed by an interview with Marina Abramovi answering four questions about Teresa.
First and Last Notebooks
Introducing the Selected Works of Simone Weil
