Alexander Kluge Jahrbuch

Author : Richard Langston
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781788735186

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Dark Matter by Richard Langston Pdf

Collaborators for more than four decades, lawyer, author, filmmaker, and multimedia artist Alexander Kluge and social philosopher Oskar Negt are an exceptional duo in the history of Critical Theory precisely because their respective disciplines think so differently. Dark Matter argues that what makes their contributions to the Frankfurt School so remarkable is how they think together in spite of these differences. Kluge and Negt's "gravitational thinking" balances not only the abstractions of theory with the concreteness of the aesthetic, but also their allegiances to Frankfurt School mentors with their fascination for other German, French, and Anglo-American thinkers distinctly outside the Frankfurt tradition. At the core of all their adventures in gravitational thinking is a profound sense that the catastrophic conditions of modern life are not humankind's unalterable fate. In opposition to modernity's disastrous state of affairs, Kluge and Negt regard the huge mass of dark matter throughout the universe as the lodestar for thinking together with others, for dark matter is that absolute guarantee that happier alternatives to our calamitous world are possible. As illustrated throughout Langston's study, dark matter's promise-its critical orientation out of catastrophic modernity-finds its expression, above all, in Kluge's multimedia aesthetic.

Author : Richard Langston,Gunther Martens,Vincent Pauval,Christian Schulte,Rainer Stollmann
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9783847104209

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Alexander Kluge-Jahrbuch by Richard Langston,Gunther Martens,Vincent Pauval,Christian Schulte,Rainer Stollmann Pdf

Flaschenpost war Adornos resignative Metapher aus dem Jahr 1940 fur die eingebusste Wirkungsmacht der Kritischen Theorie im Exil. Echos einer Flasche heisst fur Kluge die bescheidene Optik - etwas indirekt im Glassplitter sehen - womit er wirksame Perspektiven im globalisierten 21. Jahrhundert sucht. Der zweite Band des Kluge-Jahrbuchs widmet sich einerseits Kluges theoretischer Verwandlung am Beispiel seiner Theoriearbeit mit Oskar Negt und andererseits den multimedialen Sichtweisen, die nicht nur seine Haltung der Bescheidenheit zum Ausdruck bringen, sondern auch seine theoretischen Wurzeln offenlegen.

Author : Richard Langston,Leslie A. Adelson,N.D. Jones,Leonie Wilms
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783847010395

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The Poetic Power of Theory by Richard Langston,Leslie A. Adelson,N.D. Jones,Leonie Wilms Pdf

»Die poetische Kraft der Theorie« bezieht sich für Alexander Kluge weniger auf reine »Philosophie« oder die abgesonderte »Lust am Denken« als vielmehr auf die altgriechische Praxis der »Theoria«. Wie der antike Theoretiker namens Theoros, der als Gesandter aus fremden Ländern heimkehrte, um von anderen Völkern und Kulturen zu erzählen, strebt Kluges Interesse an der poetischen Kraft der Theorie nach der Anreicherung der menschlichen Wesenskräfte, die subjektive Erfahrung von Differenz in einer Krisenzeit auszudrücken, in der die Werkzeuge des Erzählens verarmt sind. Diese Ausgabe des Jahrbuchs erkundet Kluges Theorie dieses narrativen Potenzials im stürmischen Zeitalter der Digitalität, das von Algorithmen regiert, mit Informationen überflutet und von sozialen Unruhen zerrüttet ist. "The poetic power of theory" has for Alexander Kluge less to do with pure "philosophy" or the solitary "pleasures in thinking" than with the ancient Greek practice of "theoria". Like the ancient theoretician called theoros, who returned home from foreign lands to tell of other peoples and cultures, Kluge's interest in the poetic force of theory seeks to fortify humankind's essential powers for expressing the subjective experience of difference at a time of crisis when the necessary tools for narration have become impoverished. The sixth volume of the yearbook queries Kluge's theory of narrative's potential in the stormy age of digitality governed by algorithms, flooded with information, and disrupted by social conflict.

Author : Leslie Adelson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110525649

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Cosmic Miniatures and the Future Sense by Leslie Adelson Pdf

Alexander Kluge’s revolutionary storytelling for the 21st-century pivots on the production of anti-realist hope under conditions of real catastrophe. Rather than relying on possibility alone, his experimental miniatures engender counterfactual horizons of futurity that are made incrementally accessible to lived experience through narrative form. Innovative close readings and theoretical reflection alike illuminate the dimensional quality of future time in Kluge’s radical prose, where off-worldly orientation and unnatural narrative together yield new sensory perspectives on associative networks, futurity, scale, and perspective itself. This study also affords new perspectives on the importance of Kluge’s creative writing for critical studies of German thought (including Kant, Marx, Benjamin, and especially Adorno), Holocaust memory, contemporary globalization, literary miniatures, and narrative studies of futurity as form. Cosmic Miniatures contributes an experiential but non-empirical sense of hope to future studies, a scholarly field of pressing public interest in endangered times.

Author : Richard Langston,Irina Simova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3847116649

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Crisis and Astonishment by Richard Langston,Irina Simova Pdf

Author : Richard Langston
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781788735193

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Dark Matter by Richard Langston Pdf

Unravelling the thought of Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt Collaborators for more than four decades, lawyer, author, filmmaker, and multimedia artist Alexander Kluge and social philosopher Oskar Negt are an exceptional duo in the history of Critical Theory precisely because their respective disciplines think so differently. Dark Matter argues that what makes their contributions to the Frankfurt School so remarkable is how they think together in spite of these differences. Kluge and Negt's "gravitational thinking" balances not only the abstractions of theory with the concreteness of the aesthetic, but also their allegiances to Frankfurt School mentors with their fascination for other German, French, and Anglo-American thinkers distinctly outside the Frankfurt tradition. At the core of all their adventures in gravitational thinking is a profound sense that the catastrophic conditions of modern life are not humankind's unalterable fate. In opposition to modernity's disastrous state of affairs, Kluge and Negt regard the huge mass of dark matter throughout the universe as the lodestar for thinking together with others, for dark matter is that absolute guarantee that happier alternatives to our calamitous world are possible. As illustrated throughout Langston's study, dark matter's promise--its critical orientation out of catastrophic modernity--finds its expression, above all, in Kluge's multimedia aesthetic.

Author : Alexander Kluge
Publisher : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501739224

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Difference and Orientation by Alexander Kluge Pdf

Alexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteur television programming, he has also cowritten three acclaimed volumes of critical theory, published countless essays and numerous works of fiction, and continues to make films even as he expands his video production to the internet. Despite Kluge's five decades of work in philosophy, literature, television, and media politics, his reputation outside of the German-speaking world still largely rests on his films of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. With the aim of introducing Kluge's heterogeneous mind to an Anglophone readership, Difference and Orientation assembles thirty of his essays, speeches, glossaries, and interviews, revolving around the capacity for differentiation and the need for orientation toward ways out of catastrophic modernity. This landmark volume brings together some of Kluge's most fundamental statements on literature, film, pre- and post-cinematic media, and social theory, nearly all for the first time in English translation. Together, these works highlight Kluge's career-spanning commitment to unorthodox, essayistic thinking.

Author : Matej Santi,Elias Berner
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783839451458

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Music - Media - History by Matej Santi,Elias Berner Pdf

Music and sound shape the emotional content of audio-visual media and carry different meanings. This volume considers audio-visual material as a primary source for historiography. By analyzing how the same sounds are used in different media contexts at different times, the contributors intend to challenge the linear perspective of (music) history based on canonic authority. The book discusses AV-Documents (analysis in context), methodological questions (implications for research, education, and popularization of knowledge), archives of cultural memory (from the perspective of Cultural Studies) as well as digitalization and its consequences (organization of knowledge).

Author : Beverley Best,Werner Bonefeld,Chris O′Kane
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 2920 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526455628

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The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory by Beverley Best,Werner Bonefeld,Chris O′Kane Pdf

The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory expounds the development of critical theory from its founding thinkers to its contemporary formulations in an interdisciplinary setting. It maps the terrain of a critical social theory, expounding its distinctive character vis-a-vis alternative theoretical perspectives, exploring its theoretical foundations and developments, conceptualising its subject matters both past and present, and signalling its possible future in a time of great uncertainty. Taking a distinctively theoretical, interdisciplinary, international and contemporary perspective on the topic, this wide-ranging collection of chapters is arranged thematically over three volumes: Volume I: Key Texts and Contributions to a Critical Theory of Society Volume II: Themes Volume III: Contexts This Handbook is essential reading for scholars and students in the field, showcasing the scholarly rigor, intellectual acuteness and negative force of critical social theory, past and present.

Author : Tara Forrest
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789089642721

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Alexander Kluge by Tara Forrest Pdf

"Alexander Kluge is best known as a founding member of the New German Cinema. His work, however, spans a diverse range of fields and, over the last fifty years, he has been active as a filmmaker, writer and television producer." This work features scholarly essays, plus articles, stories, and interviews involving Kluge. -- from back cover.

Author : Frauke Berndt,Lutz Koepnick
Publisher : Felix Meiner Verlag
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783787334261

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Ambiguity in Contemporary Art and Theory by Frauke Berndt,Lutz Koepnick Pdf

It has become commonplace to associate art and aesthetic experience with the category of ambiguity. Indeed, when we talk about art, we cannot do without the dynamic force of ambiguity just as the aesthetic itself cannot do without it. The great efforts to disambiguate aesthetic practices and their associated theories and contexts would eliminate art's unique ability to reshape our knowledge of the world, our sensory encounters with it, and our moral or political positions in it. The essays collected in this volume present different perspectives on this central category and develop interdisciplinary connections. Contributors include Frauke Berndt, Joy H. Calico, Stephan Kammer, Lutz Koepnick, Verena Krieger, Richard Langston, Rachel Mader, Lily Tonger-Erk, Gabriel Trop, and Thomas Wortmann.

Author : Matthew D. Miller
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810137349

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The German Epic in the Cold War by Matthew D. Miller Pdf

Matthew Miller’s The German Epic in the Cold War explores the literary evolution of the modern epic in postwar German literature. Examining works by Peter Weiss, Uwe Johnson, and Alexander Kluge, it illustrates imaginative artistic responses in German fiction to the physical and ideological division of post–World War II Germany. Miller analyzes three ambitious German-language epics from the second half of the twentieth century: Weiss’s Die Ästhetik des Widerstands (The Aesthetics of Resistance), Johnson’s Jahrestage (Anniversaries), and Kluge’s Chronik der Gefühle (Chronicle of Feelings). In them, he traces the epic’s unlikely reemergence after the catastrophes of World War II and the Shoah and its continuity across the historical watershed of 1989–91, defined by German unification and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Building on Franco Moretti’s codification of the literary form of the modern epic, Miller demonstrates the epic’s ability to understand the past; to come to terms with ethical, social, and political challenges in the second half of the twentieth century in German-speaking Europe and beyond; and to debate and envision possible futures.

Author : Kirkland A. Fulk
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789204759

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Sounds German by Kirkland A. Fulk Pdf

For decades, Germany has been shaped and reshaped by the sounds of popular music—whether viewed as uniquely German or an ideological invader from abroad. This collected volume brings together leading figures in the field of German Studies, popular music studies, and cultural studies at large to survey the sociopolitical impact of music on conceptions of the German state and national identity, gender and sexuality, and transnational cultural production and consumption, expanding on the ways in which sounds, technologies, media practices, and exchanges of popular music provide a unique glimpse into the cultural dynamics of postwar Germany.

Author : Florian Fuchs
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781942130758

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Civic Storytelling by Florian Fuchs Pdf

A deep history of storytelling as a civic agency, recalibrating literature’s political role for the twenty-first century Why did short narrative forms like the novella, fable, and fairy tale suddenly emerge around 1800 as genres symptomatic of literature’s role in life and society? In order to explain their rapid ascent to such importance, Florian Fuchs identifies an essential role of literature, a role traditionally performed within classical civic discourse of storytelling, by looking at new or updated forms of this civic practice in modernity. Fuchs's focus in this groundbreaking book is on the fate of topical speech, on what is exchanged between participants in argument or conversation as opposed to rhetorical speech, which emanates from and ensures political authority. He shows how after the decline of the Ars topica in the eighteenth century, various forms of literary speech took up the role of topical speech that Aristotle had originally identified. Thus, his book outlines a genealogy of various literary short forms—from fable, fairy tale, and novella to twenty-first century video storytelling—that attempted on both "high" and "low" levels of culture to exercise again the social function of topical speech. Some of the specific texts analyzed include the novellas of Theodor Storm and the novella-like lettre de cachet, proverbial fictions of Gustave Flaubert and Gottfried Keller, the fairy tale as rediscovered by Vladimir Propp and Walter Benjamin, the epiphanies of James Joyce, and the video narratives of Hito Steyerl.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCBK:C116577171

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Monatshefte by Anonim Pdf