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Narrative gestörter Wissenskommunikation
No full textOpen Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.Technische Universität Dresden (1019
'Star Trek' und die Religion(en)
No full textDie Welt von Star Trek bietet den Lesern und Zuschauern nicht nur spannend gestaltete Geschichten im Weltraum, sondern erfüllt darüber hinaus eine Vielzahl an Funktionen: Sie fördert die Fantasie, die Imaginations-, Empathie-und Symbolisierungsfähigkeit. Star Trek beschäftigt sich sowohl mit wissenschaftlich-technischen Entwicklungen in der fiktiven Zukunft der Menschheit als auch mit sozialen und moralischen Aspekten. Insbesondere die Frage, ob es der Menschheit gelingen wird, Gewissens- und Wertekonflikte zwischen konkurrierenden Ordnungsvorstellungen zu überwinden, nimmt bei Star Trek eine zentrale Stellung ein. In diesem Beitrag wird die im hohen Maße nützliche Teilstrategie der Ideologiekritik unter dem Deckmantel der Religionskritik und des fantastisch Anderen dargestellt und ihre Bedeutung als erweiterter Zugangsweg zu humanistischen Innenwelten herausgearbeitet werden.The world of Star Trek not only offers readers and viewers excitingly designed stories in space, but also fulfils a variety of functions: It promotes fantasy, imagination, empathy and symbolization skills. Star Trek deals with scientific-technical developments in the fictional future of mankind as well as with social and moral aspects. In particular, the question of whether humanity will succeed in overcoming conflicts of conscience and values between competing ideas of order occupies a central position in Star Trek. In this paper, the highly useful sub-strategy of ideology critique under the guise of religion critique and the fantastical other will be presented and its significance as an extended access route to humanistic inner worlds will be elaborated
Alina Starkov’s Living Sainthood in Leigh Bardugo’s 'Shadow and Bone' Trilogy
No full textThis paper investigates the dissimilar attitudes which Alina, the protagonist of Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone trilogy (2012-14), exhibits towards her roles of the Chosen One and alleged saint. By examining the processes of creation and perpetuation as well as the consequences of the two roles, this paper shows that, despite their considerable overlap, there are crucial differences which render the status of saint incompatible with Alina’s self-concept, in particular her desire for autonomy. Her relationship with her antagonist, too, contributes to this, as it renders Alina unable to subscribe to the clear-cut concept of good and evil underlying the terminology of sainthood.Dieser Beitrag untersucht die unterschiedlichen Haltungen, die Alina, die Protagonistin von Leigh Bardugos Shadow and Bone-Trilogie (2012-14), gegenüber ihren Rollen als Auserwählte und vermeintliche Heilige einnimmt. Durch die Untersuchung der Prozesse der Erschaffung und Aufrechterhaltung sowie der Folgen der beiden Rollen zeigt dieser Beitrag, dass es trotz erheblicher Überschneidungen entscheidende Unterschiede gibt, die den Status der Heiligen mit Alinas Selbstkonzept, insbesondere ihrem Wunsch nach Autonomie, unvereinbar machen. Auch die Beziehung zu ihrem Antagonisten trägt dazu bei, da Alina nicht in der Lage ist, sich dem vordefinierten Konzept von Gut und Böse anzuschließen, das der Terminologie der Heiligkeit zugrunde liegt
(De)Stabilizing Factors of Transatlantic Relations According to German and US Foreign Policy Experts between 2011 and 2017
No full textThis article compares the trends and theoretical positions found in the recent academic literature on the status and trajectory of transatlantic relations with the beliefs of 96 German and US foreign policy experts. The qualitative data are derived from open-ended in-depth interviews about the political, economic, and cultural factors that influence transatlantic cooperation and friction. Conducted in Berlin in 2011 and in Washington, D.C., in 2017, the interviews correspond with optimist and pessimist perceptions found in the academic literature and align roughly with realist, respectively, liberal/institutionalist and constructivist theoretical positions in International Relations theory and left/right political leanings. The study concludes with suggestions about the prospects for transatlantic relations, and the methodological benefits of comparing beliefs of foreign policy actors with theoretical paradigms and trends in the academic literature.Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.Universität Erfurt (3150
A Celebration of Contemporary African American Poets: 'We are the Image of Pride Worth Imitating'; Interview with Cyrus Cassells
No full textMudrooroo (1938 – 2019)
No full textNearly thirty years ago, the work of Mudrooroo, a writer who had been celebrated previously as Australia’s foremost Black novelist, poet and critic, was publicly cancelled amid a scandal regarding his Indigenous credentials. Today, his vast literary estate, deposited mainly in the National Library of Australia and the State Library of Western Australia, is available to researchers but remains unexplored, his important contribution to Australian literature largely forgotten. The study of the estate adds important new insights into Mudrooroo’s life and work; it reveals the existence of a corpus of dramatic works, hitherto largely unknown, as well as extensive writings while in exile after 2001, including a partially completed six-volume autobiography. The private papers confirm a stream of misogyny in his private life that scholars had already detected in his fiction, adding biographical details to the history of his five marriages. The most impressive section of the estate is the comprehensive collection of diaries that allow a nearly daily view of Mudrooroo’s Tibetan exile, ending with reflections on his long battle against terminal cancer only a few days before his death
