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Post-Debt: A Student Loan Retrospective
Get PDFThe email came five days before my 54th birthday. It informed me that my student loan debt had been forgiven. With that, I lost the last tie to the social identity that I valued most: my identity as a student. By the time the debt was forgiven, it was almost $265k. I hadn’t imagined a future without it.
This is an autotheoretical exploration of what it meant to me to take on student loan debt in my quest to become a student/intellectual and emancipate myself from the limitations of my background. When I borrowed to excess, I renounced any vision of a future beyond the prolonged present of that identity as a student. However, rather than experience landing a tenure-track job or even tenure itself as a continuation of my identity as a student, I have instead struggled to foster the conditions that make such a quest possible for students who have come after me.
Loan forgiveness means that my identity as a student is at a definite end, so now I participate in the reproduction of the exploitative mythologies of higher education by choice. At a time when academic journals report that faculty members, particularly faculty of color, are choosing to leave institutions of higher education, I am unexpectedly free to examine my relationship to this profession and reconsider my future in it
Envisioning Vengeance: Rebellious Indigeneity, Gender and Genre in Jayro Bustamante\u27s La Llorona
Get PDFThis essay analyzes the 2019 Guatemalan film La Llorona, directed by Jayro Bustamante, in order to question the representational and affective function of monstrosity in genre cinema, asking, in particular, how it recruits Indigenous epistemology to reorient bodies away from colonial logic. As opposed to classic north American horror films, which often link non-Western spiritual practices to the unleashing of evil forces, La Llorona revises the genre by locating that evil in the character representing the genocidal authoritarian state, the vanquishing of which requires the use of an Indigenous spiritual practice that involves bodily possession. I argue that the film shifts the objectifying gaze from the Indigenous as Other to the white patriarchal state as the true source of monstrosity. In this way, the film stages a cathartic reckoning with a historical trauma as it also interpellates a white and Indigenous female coalition. In addition, by utilizing classic horror genre techniques and rewriting them for a local context, the film encourages an embodied response in the viewer that engages with the uncanny resonances of a national trauma
Of Pirates and Institutions
No full textIn The Punishment of Pirates betrachtet Matthew Norton das ebenso faszinierende wie heikle Phänomen der Piraten, um herauszufinden, wie Institutionen die soziale Welt formen. Das Buch fungiert sowohl als historische Erzählung über den spezifischen Zeitraum des langen 17. Jahrhunderts als auch als soziologische Analyse der diskursiven und interpretativen Grundlage von Rechtssystemen im Allgemeinen und bietet somit eine Fülle historischer und soziologischer Einblicke. Darüber hinaus bereitet die zugänglich und dennoch sehr präzise Sprache viel Vergnügen bei der Lektüre.The Punishment of Pirates by Matthew Norton takes the equal parts fascinating and slippery phenomenon of pirates as a means through which to glean how institutions shape the social world. Operating on both the level of historical narrative of the specific period of the long seventeenth century, and the level of sociological analysis of the discursive and interpretive underpinnings of legal systems in general, the book offers a wealth of historical and sociological insight. In addition, it is written in language both accessible and precise, making it a pleasure to read
Sweet Emotions: Why Feelings Matter at Heritage Sites
No full textEmotionen sind wichtig. Das gilt für vieles in unserem Leben, aber ebenso für den Zugang, das Verständnis und die Nutzung von kulturellem Erbe. In Emotional Heritage gibt Laurajane Smith aufschlussreiche Einblicke in diese Annahme und konkretisiert den allmählichen, aber oft unvollständigen Wandel im Kulturerbefeld, sich stärker auf Personen und Emotionen auszurichten. Durch die Analyse eines umfangreichen empirischen Datenmaterials, das über drei Kontinente und mehrere Jahre hinweg zusammengetragen wurde, unterstreicht die renommierte Critical Heritage-Forscherin wie wichtig es ist, die emotionale Dimension von Kulturerbe sowohl im musealen als auch im akademischen Bereich ernsthaft und umfassend zu berücksichtigen.Emotions matter. This is true for much in our lives, but it is just as vital for accessing, understanding, and using heritage. In Emotional Heritage, Laurajane Smith presents revealing insights into this assumption and gives further substance to a gradual, yet often inchoate, people- and affect-oriented shift in the heritage field. Analyzing an extensive set of empirical data compiled over three continents and several years, the renowned critical heritage scholar emphasizes the importance of addressing the emotional dimension of heritage genuinely and comprehensively in all heritage agendas
Report on Eduard Arriaga’s Master Class “Afro-Latinx Digital Storytelling: A Twine Journey to Narrative Decolonization” and Keynote Lecture “Afro-Brazilian Community Data Networks: Technological Hybridity, Data Decolonization and Human Reaffirmation” : Events in the Framework of the Weaving Knowledge Event Series at the GCSC, Justus Liebig University Giessen, May 9, 2023, Germany
No full textMasculine, Customized: Rebecca Endler’s Dimensions of Patriarchal Design
No full textIn welchen Ausdrucksweisen zeigt sich patriarchale Sprache? Welchen Einfluss hat geschlechtsspezifische Gestaltung für die Navigation im öffentlichen Raum? Warum begünstigen Wikipedia-Beiträge, Algorithmen und Sprachaktivierungssysteme tradierte stereotype Sichtweisen? Das Erstlingswerk Das Patriarchat der Dinge: Warum die Welt Frauen nicht passt der freien Journalistin Rebecca Endler nimmt sich diesen Fragen an und entschlüsselt in neun Kapiteln die materiellen und immateriellen Entscheidungen des patriarchalen Designs der westlichen Welt.In which expressions does patriarchal language appear? What is the impact of gender-specific design for navigation in public space? Why do Wikipedia articles, algorithms, and speech activation systems encourage traditional stereotypical perspectives? When does the design of living and working environments act in a discriminatory manner? The freelance journalist Rebecca Endler focusses on these questions in her debut book Das Patriarchat der Dinge: Warum die Welt Frauen nicht passt. In nine chapters, she examines material and immaterial patriarchal design in the Western world
Presences We Live By: Rethinking the Eternal Return and Time Lapses between Now and Then from Vico to Arendt
Get PDFThis paper sketches a tour de force of philosophical as well as poetic concepts of time from G. Vico (ricorsi), F. Nietzsche (Wiederkunft), V. Woolf (Orlando), W. Benjamin (Ur/Sprung), E. Auerbach (figura) and Hannah Arendt (“in-between”). It maps the returns and lapses of time from cycles to spirals, theoretical models, and visualizations which are brought forth to solve the problem of how not to fall back into earlier already overcome stages of development, and to realize the network of strings between now and then in order to make a difference in the future. I will underline the statement that we have no access to the archives of history as long as we are not traveling back to the future. For history is not enclosed in the past, it is reassembled by future tasks: from Vico’s chronological monsters as illegitimate descendants to Zarathustra’s pregnancies as preparation for the return of the unbearable, from the queer feeling of time vibrations in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to Benjamin’s jumping sessions from origin to origin, from Auerbach’s vertical lift to Arendt’s “in-between.
Metamorphosis of a Transregional Traffic Junction: Lviv\u27s Railway Stations in context of Eastern European Urban Development
No full textEine fundierte Quellenarbeit mit wenigen Abstrichen: Nadja Weck legt mit ihrer Dissertation Eisenbahn und Stadtentwicklung in Zentraleuropa am Beispiel der Stadt Lemberg (Lwów, L‘viv) einen wichtigen Beitrag zur osteuropäischen Infrastrukturgeschichte vor. A scientific work with high source reference: Nadja Weck’s dissertation Eisenbahn und Stadtentwicklung in Zentraleuropa am Beispiel der Stadt Lemberg (Lwów, L‘viv) is an important contribution to Eastern European infrastructural history
Slowing Down in a Sped-Up World: How Slow Narrative Can Foster Embodied Experiences of Climate Change and Prompt Ethical Responses
No full textMarco Caracciolos Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities nimmt slow narrative — langsames Erzählen — als narrative Form und affektive Erfahrung im Kontext des Klimawandels in den Blick. Caracciolo beleuchtet anhand anschaulicher Lektüren, wie langsames Erzählen eine Erfahrung von entanglement zwischen menschlichen und nicht-menschlichen Akteuren hervorrufen kann. Sein Werk leistet damit einen wichtigen Beitrag zu Analyse von Erzählformen und ihren affektiven Effekten im Kontext der kognitiven Narratologie, der Phänomenologie und der Environmental Humanities.Marco Caracciolo’s Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities focuses on the form and potential of slow narrative for an affective and embodied experience of climate change. With a variety of vivid close-readings, Caracciolo illuminates the narrative strategies that produce deceleration and convincingly shows how these are conducive to an experience of entanglements between the human and nonhuman world. His study proves to be an important contribution to (cognitive) narratology, phenomenological conceptions of narrative, and the environmental humanities as a whole