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Auf der anderen Seite. Bilder der Gewalt, Differenz und Solidarität im zeitgenössischen Film zu islamisch geprägten Kulturen und islamischem Fundamentalismus
Get PDFOn the Other Side. Images of violence, Difference, and Solidarity in Contemporary Films on Islamic Cultures and Islamic fundamentalismIn recent years, films and works on video have helped to deconstruct the popular western clichéd view of Islamic cultures. Different but also similar examples of this are the philosophical film Auf der anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven) (2007) by the German-Turkish director Fatih Akin, and the autobiographical animated cartoon Persepolis (2007) by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud. The essay analyses what role solidarity plays in the two films, how traditional western gender stereotypes about Islamic cultures are deconstructed, how and gender-specific violence in Islamic fundamentalism is criticized
Und wenn sie "eine feste Form angenommen haben" - Die Tranz Portraits Del LaGrace Volcanos
Get PDFAnd when they “have firmly taken shape” - Del LaGrace Volcano’s Tranz PortraitsDel LaGrace Volcano’s photographic series Tranz Portraits seems to prove the evident masculinities of transsexual/transgendered men. But if they do, can they still be read as queer, or rather, do they reproduce ideas of a heteronormative binary gender system? This article explores the critical impact of Volcano’s portraits. Current debates in queer theory critique the ways in which visual articulations of queerness are imposed on the representation of queer bodies and call for representations of queerness that exceed the body. The text argues that images of the sexed body – and of the male body especially – are nevertheless still extremely naturalized. It is therefore necessary to analyze the technologies and practices through which male bodies are produced. A reading of the Tranz Portraits, when informed by feminist art criticisms, shows how the photographs explore visual norms of sexed and gendered bodies and expose their rootedness in the cultural conventions of representation and modes of looking. By doing so, they contradict ideologies of essentialist masculinity and also shift the meaning of the term Trans, since they represent their protagonists not in the dominant pathologized way (as “trapped in the wrong body”), but rather as positioned precariously, troubled by the surrounding world and its contradictions
Freundschaft im Netz
Get PDFAstrid Konrad, Aneta Mandysová, Alexandra Pichler, Denise Zöhrer: Friendship on the InternetNothing seems to be easier than making friends on the Internet, especially by using Community Servers or Blogs. One click of your mouse makes it possible to form a friendship possible, even with somebody you have never met before and probably will never meet in person. On community servers, very loose networks of friends are formed this way. Friendship on the Internet is common and is part of the everyday lives of millions of people. This article presents some important and promising approaches to the topic and compares Internet friendships to face-to-face-contacts. What in fact is a virtual friendship? How does it work and what makes it so attractive
Sapoho. Lektüren im 18. Jahrhundert
No full textSappho. Reading in the Eighteenth CenturyThe article proposes a new understanding of Angelica Kauffman’s painting of Sappho, which is often misunderstood as a representation of Sappho's grief for the young sailor Phaon. Instead the author develops a “queer” reading against the background of eighteenth-century debates on female friendship, authorship, Sappho, and Sapphism
