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Black Hawk Down - "Global Player" im freien Flug? - Von der Konstruktion filmischer Helden in Zeiten neuer Kriege
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Black Hawk Down – “Global Player” in Free Flight? On the Construction of Filmic Heroes in Times of New Wars
This article argues that in popular war films, the representation of American soldiers as “global players” functions as an important and new element in the formation of sovereignty. Ridley Scott’s 2001 blockbuster film Black Hawk Down is taken as an example to examine the modes of representation by which the “body in crisis” can be healed. While the topic of the film – the 1993 UN/US intervention in Somalia and the failure of that mission – promotes a persisting politicization of the condition of masculinity, this article is interested in how the film (re)creates the body of the soldier in the special forces as a representation of powerful and sovereign masculinity. This is done first of all through the way in which the relationship between “America” and “the world” is represented. The analysis shows that there are three important strategies in the construction of meanings, messages, and connotations, which can be seen as strategies of global national healing: the panoptic view, the image of “the woman”, and the sacrifices of militarism. Black Hawk Down, the article argues, articulates and is articulated by a newly emerging global order that operates through diffuse, complex and deterritorialized categories, as well as through traditional national images. The variety of power formations that exceed the scope of the transnational state illustrate the ways in which new and old modes of representation are constructed.
 
Einspruch: eine sprachliche Intervention. Zur Edition "Do you mind" von Astrid Nippoldt
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Objection: A Linguistic Intervention. On Astrid Nippolt’s Edition Do you mind
This paper discusses the work of German artist Astrid Nippoldt and focuses on Do you mind (2006), an edition she developed specially for FKW. Do you mind originated in a temporary action undertaken by the artist in Riga in 2005, when she affixed a set of questions to the base of the Statue of Roland and thereby staged an imaginary dialogue in public space. For the purposes of the edition, these questions were separated from their urban context and transposed onto sheets of paper. The resulting arrangement places center stage the communicative process emerging from the interaction between questions and answers. The paper explores the manifold shifts in meaning arising from the artist’s interventions in language
"One face with tow sexes"? - Versuch, die Erkenntnisse aus einem psychophysikalischen Experiment zu deuten
Get PDFOne Face with Two Sexes?: Attempting to Analyze the Insights of a Psychophysical ExperimentThis article analyzes some very specific processes of knowledge and evidence production in the field of human psychophysics concerning the question of whether gender is a category of human visual perception, specifically of face recognition. Methodologically speaking, the article conducts a discursive analysis on a micro-political level and addresses the question of how the experiment itself and the form of knowledge behind it, together with the media devices employed, produce some kind of truth or evidence about gender as it is represented in the form of text, diagrams, and pictures. This kind of scientific “truth” was published in, Vision, one of the field’s preeminent scientific journals, in 2005. The media technique used in the experiment is a morphing procedure based on complicated statistical-mathematical calculations and elaborated algorithms. In terms of effect on the level of image production, the medium primarily erased all differences between two categories of sex, which were extracted from “reality” and then digitalized, but also an a priori presumption on the part of the experimenters. The following article shows how the morphing procedure destabilizes this presumption on an epistemological level; how the process of presenting the images to the subjects in a static, photographic manner seeks to regulate this destabilization; and how, finally, the presumption is – as experimental solution – at the risk of being unverifiable, but for this very reason has to be rationalized and reestablished in order to keep sexual difference intelligible in the form of two categories of sex
Der irrende Ritter – Künstler-, Kampf- und Kriegerromantik zum Ersten Weltkrieg
Get PDFKathrin Hoffmann-Curtius The Knight Errant. Romanticizing the Artist, Battle, and the Warrior in the World War One Era The article focuses on German paintings from the turn of the twentieth century to theWeimar Republic. Most notably before the First World War, painters, writers, and philosophers were attracted to the image of the lone, virtuous knight, representing unconquerable masculine power while excluding femininity and sexual life. With regard to the history of interpreting Albrecht Dürer’s famous engraving “Ritter, Tod und Teufel”, the article explores how Hans Thoma, Max Slevogt, Lovis Corinth, Oskar Kokoschka, and Paul Klee perform and deconstruct the knight’s heroic masculinity before and after the war
Sichtbarmachungen? Über harmonikale Strukturen als Universalmuster
Get PDFVisualizations? On Harmonic Structures as Universal PatternsThis article analyzes the role of “harmonics” in western art historical discourse. Hövelmeyer takes the work of the psychiatrist Leo Bader as an example of the role of images, the discourse on the artist, and the interrelationship of artistic and scientific authority. We see how the historical and contemporary position of the male scientist is embedded in aesthetic premises, to which little reflection has been given
