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Geteilte Langsamkeit und mögliches Begehren:Queere Zeit(ver)läufe in den Filmen von Kelly Reichardt
Get PDFIn den Filmen Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy und Certain Women werden die zentralen Themen der US-amerikanischen Regisseurin Kelly Reichardt um Armut und Prekarität als Beschäftigung mit Zeitlichkeit deutlich. Der Artikel interessiert sich weiterführend dafür, wie diese Fragen in ihren Filmen auch als queer gelesen werden können. Hierfür werden verschiedene Bewegungen untersucht, die chrononormativen Zuschreibungen entgegenstehen und potentielle Öffnungen und Gefüge zeitigen. Es handelt sich um filmische Unterbrechungen und kleine Brüche, die eine Unklarheit, Abweichung oder Übertretung und die Neuformulierung von Zeit(ver)läufen und Räumen erlauben. Damit offenbart sich ein filmisches Denken, das sich im Bild selbst, in der Kameraführung oder durch Verbindungen in der Montage äußert
Writing Letters to Extraterrestrials
No full textTo be extra-terrestrial, or extra-earth, might imply excess or spillover from the earthly, being expelled from Terra, or the desire to leave the Earth altogether. It might invoke fears or excitement of greeting an alien other to Earth, or perhaps instead reveal fantasies of being able to leave a damaged Earth behind and become oneself extra-terrestrial. Alongside these fantasies that imagining the ET might harbor, it also reckons with loss and grief; the theme inherently interrogates the possibility of extinction, climate change, toxic ecologies, and the Anthropocene. It reconsiders questions of identity and belonging, what it might mean to be more-than terra or to have certain qualities considered as ’alien‘ in terms of nation or citizenship, as well as ’extra’ or un-usable, not-valued (by whom or by what?), or in the recent popular sense, ‘extra’ as excess, the dramatic over-the-top. Many of these provocations of the extra-terrestrial will draw on feminist and queer legacies of science fiction in philosophy, the sciences, literature, film, TV, and the arts. Each artist and theorist in the event imagines speculative practices towards radically different and just futures free of capitalist, racist, fascist, ableist, carceral, homophobic, transphobic, and other forms of connected structural oppressions. WRITING LETTERS TO EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS is a three-day series of hybrid online and in-person events at the ICI Berlin and the Technische Universität Berlin that focuses attention on the promises, dangers, and ambiguities of communicating with extraterrestrials and being ourselves ’extraterrestrial‘. The interrogation of the epistolary mode and other traditionally non-academic modes of writing in the name of expression, or coming to know the world outside-of-oneself (if such a distinction can be drawn), hopes to gain access into experiences of otherness and ways of navigating radical difference both real and imagined. Invited participants include performance, film, visual and sound artists, writers, theorists, activists, and scientists to be in conversation in a multi-disciplinary and multi-format event.Speaker Bios (pdf
Emergence that Matters and Emergent Irrelevance:On the Political Use of Fundamental Physics
Get PDFWith reference to the mobilization of physics in new feminist materialisms, this chapter argues that the fundamental ontology of matter suggested by physics is of no political relevance. Instead, its position is that devising effective strategies to deactivate the normative power of fundamental ontologies remains politically relevant despite long-standing critiques of essentialism. The chapter proposes that physics can be helpful both for understanding its own irrelevance and for inspiring strategies of deactivation
World Literature and the Problem of Postcolonialism:Aesthetics and Dissent
Get PDFThis essay identifies in the materialist strand of world literature theory, especially Pascale Casanova and the Warwick Research Collective, a reliance upon a priori structures (the world-system) and prioritisation of the literary registration of inequality. By contrast, I contend, world-literary critics who wish to maintain the dissident spirit of postcolonialism ought to demonstrate a shared equality. By reference to the philosophies of Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay sets out the case for an alternative to world-systems critique: one that maintains literature’s potential for creating new forms of resistance, dissent, and, crucially, equality
Being Taught Something World-Sized:‘The Detainee’s Tale as told to Ali Smith’ and the Work of World Literature
Get PDFThis paper reads ‘The Detainee’s Tale as told to Ali Smith’ (2016) as an exemplary demonstration of the work of world literature. Smith’s story articulates an ethics of reading that is grounded in the recipient’s openness to the singular, unpredictable, and unverifiable text of the other. More specifically, Smith’s account enables the very event that it painstakingly stages: the encounter with alterity and newness, which is both the theme of the narrative and the effect of the text on the reader. At the same time, however, the text urges to move from an ethics of literature understood as the responsible reception of the other by an individual reader to a more explicitly convivial and political ethics of commitment beyond the scene of reading
