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Turning to the Self: Self-Regard and Disorderly Being as Strategies of Survival
Get PDFIn A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly stellt Kaiama L. Glover fünf weibliche Charaktere der englisch- und französischsprachigen karibischen Literatur in den Mittelpunkt und definiert die Art und Weise, wie diese Frauen sich selbst betrachten als eine Praxis der Freiheit und als ihre Formulierung einer Ethik des ungezügelten Wesens, die es ihnen ermöglicht zu überleben. Glovers Studie ist eine einfühlsame Betrachtung von weiblicher Subjektivität in einer (post)kolonialen Welt, die ideologische Perspektiven und akademische Diskurse aufrüttelt und untergräbt.A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being by Kaiama L. Glover places five female characters of anglophone and francophone Caribbean literature center stage and defines the specific ways in which these women regard themselves as a practice of freedom and as their forming of an ethics of disorderly being that is necessary for survival. It is a thoughtful consideration of female subjectivity in a (post)colonial world and meaningfully subverts and unsettles ideological perspectives and academic discourses
The Rethinking the Politics of In_Visibility post #Metoo?
No full textThis essay offers reflection upon recent transformations in thinking about and under- standing the in_visibility of gendered, embodied selves which is a more digital and a more diverse version of the ‘in/visibility’ of my 2015 text, The Politics of In/Visibil- ity: Being There. Both iterations include the interrelationship between visibility and invisibility. In this essay, using Laura Mulvey’s conceptualization of the gaze, look- ing and being looked at, and Judith Butler’s analysis of the impact of trans politics, I address changes which have arisen since I first worked on in/visibility through two recent developments: The first is #Metoo as a highly effective social media platform, where politics conducted online has had actual, material, embodied effects on peo- ple’s lives; the second includes the impact of trans politics in challenging everyday assumptions about gender and especially the binary logic and embodied properties of sex, citing the example of sport, where bodies matter. Sport has always been di- vided into men’s and women’s competitions, at least since women have been al- lowed to participate at all. Recent changes, subverting traditional patriarchy and the binary logic of sex have been contentious, but also offer exciting new ways of ex- ploring in_visibility in relation to bodies, representational systems and subverting inegalitarian, traditional systems, both actual and virtual, which act oppressively and restrictively
Yesterday’s Tomorrow and its Politics
No full textVergangene Zukünfte stellen ein geschichtswissenschaftliches Forschungsfeld dar, dem in den letzten Jahren vermehrte Aufmerksamkeit zuteilgeworden ist. Nun liegt mit Elke Seefrieds Sammelband Politische Zukünfte im 20. Jahrhundert ein umfangreicher Überblick zum Zusammenhang von Zukunftsdenken und Politik vor. Dabei werden nicht nur bekannte Ergebnisse und neue Erkenntnisse vorgestellt, sondern vor allem auch Leerstellen offengelegt, die neugierig machen auf ein dynamisches Forschungsfeld.Futures past have been growing in popularity as a topic for historical research in recent years. The volume Politische Zukünfte im 20. Jahrhundert edited by Elke Seefried now presents an extensive overview of the interplay between futures and politics. This anthology not only compiles established findings and new insights but also points to desiderata that spark curiosity for a dynamic field of research
Terror Machines: Social Bots in Struggles for Hegemony in Digital Publics
Get PDFThis essay will elaborate upon the ambivalences of unreliable communication on social networks, using the case study of social bots. Social bots simulate human users in social networks. If they do not give any indication that they are machines, they can be classified as fake accounts. Social bots can be considered opinion robots as they are used strategically to influence discussions on social networks. What users see on their screens today when they consume news portals, social networks and online platforms corresponds to precarious in_visibility. Bots are the expression of a new kind of visibility politics as they flood the online communication spaces with their highly visible content, interests, and preferences, simulating public opinions and popular trends, while making their technical origin and identity invisible.What is the significance of social bots in the development of digital society when the boundaries between the human and the technical dissolve? A computer-based intelligence and media literacy is required that is not only able to eliminate bots, but also develops the reflective ability to consider machine-based communication and artificial intelligence as a factor of the digital society
Invisible Superstructure of the Visible: Contested Notions of Authorized Order, or How to Render the Kankurang In_Visible
Get PDFThis _Article investigates debates on visualizations of the Kankurang and offers a new conceptualization of the interrelation of processes of heritagization and in_visibility. “Kankurang” refers both to an initiatory rite of the Mandinka ethnic group associated with the circumcision of young males as well as the spirit at its center. In the rite, the Kankurang chases away unwanted viewers, and traditionally was intended to remain invisible to outsiders. However, the figure has been dragged into the political spotlight in both Senegal and Gambia, as new institutions have intentionally incorporated the rite into their political interests by making Mandinka heritage visible, while at the same time concealing unwanted information. In 2008, the Kankurang initiatory rite was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Since then, a documentation center was established in Janjanbureh, Gambia, and in 2018, the Gambian Kankurang was also targeted by the YEP (Youth Empowerment Project), funded by the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF). By revitalizing the Kankurang Festival, the financiers wish to prevent ‘irregular immigration’ to the EU. In this paper, I reveal the different developments and stances on authorized order on this heritage’s in_visibility through visual discourse analysis of the invisible superstructure; drawing on phenomenology and Marxist relational space theory, I criticize and theorize the implicated power-imbalances in these developments. In conclusion, I will elaborate two types of invisible superstructure which disclose the conflicting political aims and ethical implications of visualizing the Kankurang
Hijacking the Patriarchy: Pussy Riot’s and LASTESIS’ Networked Performances
Get PDFHow do feminist activists take over our feeds? And can we really escape the shadows of networked visibility? In a series of five case studies, this text and video-based _Perspective applies the method of visual research to analyze and cross-pollinate visual formulas and platform strategies of Pussy Riot’s and LASTESIS’ networked performances. What started as a social media revolution in 2012 has now spread into the realm of cryptocurrencies and Web3 advances. Formerly situated feminist protests become more and more decentralized and ubiquitory—and so do their audiences. Nonetheless, catering to the demands of networked imagery also entails perpetuating its hegemonic, exploitative, and violent nature, which is ultimately at the hands of the viewer’s and researcher’s interaction
The Dream of Total Cinema arises from a Literary Idea
Get PDFKarin Janker analysiert in ihrer medientheoretischen Promotionsschrift die duale Beeinflussung von Literatur und dem frühen Kino des 20. Jahrhunderts, mit der naiven Vorstellung eines Mediums, das sich ununterscheidbar von der Realität machen möchte. Hierfür zieht sie sechs zeitgleiche Romane heran, die als Präfigurativ die Entwicklung des Kinos beeinflussten. Aktuellen Rückbezug erhält sie durch die Konnexion zu virtuellen Realitäten, zu denen sie Potentiale und Risiken sichtbar macht.In her doctoral thesis on media theory, Karin Janker analyzes the dual influence of literature and the early cinema of the 20th century with the naive notion of a medium that wants to make itself indistinguishable from reality. For this purpose, she draws on six contemporaneous novels that influenced the development of cinema as prefiguratives. The connection to virtual realities, fowhose potentials and risks she makes visible, provides a current reference
A Non-Conventional Encyclopedia on the Anthropocene: Dissecting a Concept from Philosophy to Poetry
Get PDFConnectedness: An Incomplete Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, herausgegeben von Marianne Krogh, stellt durch eine originelle Auswahl von fast einhundert Schlüsselwörtern eine fesselnde Reise durch die vielen Facetten des Konzepts des Anthropozän dar. Durch die Stimmen von relevanten zeitgenössischen Persönlichkeiten, herausragenden Wissenschaftler_innen, Künstler_innen und Architekt_innen, verfolgt diese unkonventionelle Enzyklopädie einen pluralistischen Standpunkt – sowohl im Aufbau als auch Inhalt – was sie als nützliches Werkzeug zur Navigation durch die Komplexitäten aktueller ökologischer Krisen etabliert.Connectedness: An Incomplete Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, edited by Marianne Krogh, offers an engaging journey through the many facets of the concept of the Anthropocene by presenting an original selection of almost a hundred keywords regarding it. Through the voices of relevant contemporary personalities, including A-list scholars, artists and architects, this non-conventional encyclopedia pursues a pluralistic standpoint – both in its organization and its contents – which establishes it as a useful tool for navigating the complexities of current ecological crises
Against Parasitic Capital: Ending the Coronavirus Pandemic and Climate Wartime Mobilization
Get PDFIn Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in The Twenty-First Century vertritt Andreas Malm die These, dass der Klimawandel mit zoonotischen Ausbrüchen in einem sich selbst aufrechterhaltenden System verflochten ist, das wahrscheinlich neue Pandemien auslösen wird und bezeichnet unsere gegenwärtige Situation als ‚chronischen Notfall‘. In diesem Sinne verteidigt der Autor, dass staatlich geführte Sofortmaßnahmen gegen den Mechanismus des ‚parasitären Kapitals‘ auf globaler Ebene und synchron ergriffen werden müssen, wobei auf die ökologischen Lehren des ‚Kriegskommunismus‘ zurückgegriffen wird.In Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in The Twenty-First Century, Andreas Malm carries the thesis that climate change interlaces with zoonotic spillovers in a self-perpetuating system that is likely to deliver new pandemics, constituting our current situation as a \u27chronic emergency.\u27 In this sense, the author defends the idea that state-led emergency measures must be taken against the mechanism of \u27parasitic capital\u27 on a global scale and in a synchronic manner, drawing from the ecological lessons of \u27war communism.\u2