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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.
Christian Kracht‘s Aesthetics
The contributions to this volume are devoted to Christian Kracht's aesthetics under two main aspects: On the one hand, with regard to sometimes irritatingly twisted actualizations of that self-reference and reservation which, since Kant, is to be evaluated as a central mode of the aesthetic; on the other hand, with regard to interferences with areas that are usually perceived as extra-aesthetic, but which can be evaluated as ferments of contemporary aesthetics: Stagings in the field of the literary establishment, the aesthetic under media and market conditions, and in the focus of canonization and criticism. Kracht's Frankfurt Poetics Lectures, which were intensively commented on by the media, form the background to this discussion.
Transdisciplinary Research in Language Education
Situated on the cutting edge of theory and classroom practice, this volume highlights transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary research in language education and other disciplines and epistemological spaces. The authors provide insights from language education and its potential to connect with a broad range of disciplinary traditions that include medicine, literature, fine arts, mathematics, and more. This forward-looking text addresses contemporary themes of social justice, intercultural citizenship, and antiracism throughout. Chapters provide educational research examples that can be applied in innovative ways to extend beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. Language applications inclu...
Expressionist Film
Beginning with a fundamentally new interpretation of 'Dr. Caligari', and with fresh views of other expressionist classics, this book offers new perspectives on important alternative styles and genres that emerged in films by such eminent directors as Lubitsch, Fritz Lang and E.A. Dupont.
Welfare for Markets
A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state’s policy-in-waiting. The idea of a government paying its citizens to keep them out of poverty—now known as basic income—is hardly new. Often dated as far back as ancient Rome, basic income’s modern conception truly emerged in the late nineteenth century. Yet as one of today’s most controversial proposals, it draws supporters from across the political spectrum. In this eye-opening work, Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas trace basic income from its rise in American and British policy debates following periods of economic tumult to its modern relationship with technopopulist figures in Silicon Valley. They chronicle how the idea first arose in the United States and Europe as a market-friendly alternative to the postwar welfare state and how interest in the policy has grown in the wake of the 2008 credit crisis and COVID-19 crash. An incisive, comprehensive history, Welfare for Markets tells the story of how a fringe idea conceived in economics seminars went global, revealing the most significant shift in political culture since the end of the Cold War.
Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
This biography of Lise Meitner (1878-1968), the Austrian Jewish female physicist at the heart of the discovery of nuclear fission, also looks at major developments in physics during her life. Meitner was a colleague and friend of many giants of 20th century physics: Max Planck, her Berlin mentor, Einstein, von Laue, Marie Curie, Chadwick, Pauli and Bohr. She was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Vienna, a pioneer in the research of radioactive processes and, together with her nephew Otto Robert Frisch, an interpreter of the process of nuclear fission in 1938. Yet at the end of World War II, her colleague of thirty years, radiochemist Otto Hahn alone was awarded ...
Wie postdigital schreiben?
Die Digitalisierung hat eine Weiterentwicklung literarischer Schreibweisen und Verfahren angeregt und zu ihrer Beschreibung neue poetologische Begriffe hervorgebracht. Einige der scheinbar neuen Verfahren, wie etwa der Einsatz von Listen und Gesten der Überaffirmation, finden sich jedoch schon in früheren literarischen Programmen, zum Beispiel in der Pop-Literatur. Die Beiträge des Bandes fragen nach formalen Kontinuitäten, Brüchen und anderen Formen der Bezugnahme auf historische Vorläufer in der jüngsten Gegenwartsliteratur. Um herauszufinden, ob ein postdigitales Zeitalter auch ästhetisch konturiert werden kann, beleuchten sie Innovationen und Bezüge der neuesten Literatur zu literarischen Traditionen, etwa zur Romantik, Avantgarde oder Postmoderne.
Kontrafaktik der Gegenwart
Nicht-realistisches Erzählen ist hochpopulär, wurde aber häufig des politischen Eskapismus verdächtigt. Diese Studie bietet einen fiktionstheoretischen Zugang zum Erzählverfahren der Kontrafaktik und zeigt dessen Nähe zum politischen Schreiben auf. Analysen kontrafaktischer Werke von Christian Kracht, Kathrin Röggla, Juli Zeh und Leif Randt demonstrieren die Vielfalt und Relevanz politischer Realitätsvariationen in der Gegenwartsliteratur.
Parodistische Konstellationen von Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust
Soll die Erinnerungskultur zu Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust mehr als das politische Abtragen von vergangener Schuld sein, muss sie gegenwartsrelevant und anschlussfähig für das medienkulturelle Gedächtnis der aktuellen Generationen sein. Die hier untersuchten Gegenstände aus Literatur, Film, Kunst und Comic (Christian Kracht: Faserland, Thomas Meinecke: Hellblau, Alexander Kluge/Gerhard Richter: Dezember, Quentin Tarantino: Inglourious Basterds, Jean-Luc Godard: Histoire(s) du cinéma, Zbigniew Libera: Lego. Concentration Camp, Walter Moers: Adolf. Äch bin wieder da!!, Der Bonker) bilden eine Poetik parodistischer Konstellationen aus, die die historische Katastrophe des Holocaust als radikale Alterität anerkennt und diese mittels popkultureller und postmoderner Verfahren in ihrer Unverfügbarkeit sichtbar und zugänglich macht. Die auf diskursive Öffnung zielenden parodistischen Konstellationen widerlegen damit die scheinbare Unvereinbarkeit von Popkultur/Postmoderne und Erinnerungskultur.
