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No full textA fascination with archives often entails a longing to return to sources, stories, and their beginnings. It is associated with a meticulous attention to detail, the uncovering of exciting connections, the collection of testimonies and reliable traces, accounts that corroborate a story, and contribute to the (re)construction of histories from below. However, at a time when the notion of the ‘archive’ threatens to become a dead metaphor or a cheap replacement for ‘canon’ or ‘corpus’, the symposium suggests to take a particularly contentious example — that of the Yugoslav Partisan ‘counter-archive’ — as a starting-point for its reconsideration of archival politics. The Yugoslav, socialist, and Partisan past was both demonized by the resurgent Balkan nationalist projects of the 1990s and commodified by Yugonostalgic memorialization, stylized as either heroic or droll. Against these versions of a ‘frozen’ past, a multiplicity of projects, cultural, artistic, or political, have sought to document and aggregate past fragments, diverse snapshots, artworks, political events — a diverse archive to be retrieved in order to unsettle current narratives and mobilize emancipatory changes. The term ‘Partisan counter-archive’ in particular builds on two recent publications, Gal Kirn’s Partisan Counter Archive and Davor Konjukušić’s Red Light, which tackle the return to the Yugoslav Partisan struggle and its after-life, going beyond both revisionism and nostalgia. Seeking to connect this particular example to wider revolutionary and decolonial histories, the symposium will also draw on some of the most advanced considerations of archival practices in radical modernist traditions and contemporary art. How can counter-archives connect the testimonies and legacies of past struggles with the victims of today’s oppression? What kind of power struggles are produced by counter-archives, and how do they manage to draw attention to what has been lost, overlooked, reduced, suppressed, or omitted from national archives and established historiography? These questions and similar lines of inquiry will be discussed by researchers, artists, and filmmakers who have been working on (or with) the notion of counter-archive/s, recombining and reinterpreting the legacy of the oppressed. Coming from various disciplines and dealing with different archival materials, participants of this symposium share a critical awareness that the work on and with archives is traversed by profound power struggles
Possibilities of Lyric:Reading Petrarch in Dialogue
No full textPresentation and discussion of the latest ICI Berlin Press publication by Manuele Gragnolati and Francesca Southerden, Possibilities of Lyric: Reading Petrarch in Dialogue (2020). The seminar Lirica&Teoria brings together a group of scholars based in different countries to discuss questions of lyric theory as well as new approaches to the lyric, with a particular focus on the Italian poetic tradition. On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, the seminar will also host events open to the public and related to Dante’s lyric poetry. Forthcoming on 28 May 2021, 17:00 CET, in Italian and German Judith Kasper (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Andrea Renker (Universität Konstanz) and Fabien Vitali (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) present and discuss with the audience their translation project: Le Rime di Dante in tedesc
Das iPhone als Medium einer queeren Ästhetik und fluiden Subjektivität:Charlotte Prodgers <i>BRIDGIT</i>
Get PDFBRIDGIT ist der Titel des iPhone-Videos, mit dem Charlotte Prodger 2018 den Turner Prize gewann. Der Beitrag zeigt, dass Prodger einerseits an bereits etablierte Ästhetiken des experimentellen queeren Kinos anknüpft, andererseits aber auch über diese hinausgeht. Die ästhetische Verschränkung von Körpern, Begehren, Wahrnehmung und Selbstwahrnehmung, Landschaft, Zeit und Queerness ist – auch im Medium des digitalen Filmes – skulptural und setzt darin eine virtuelle Kraft frei, die sich den neoliberalen Normalisierungsprozessen und der Nicht-Intelligibilität von queeren Begehrensformen in subtiler Weise widersetzt
Spinozist Moments in Deleuze:Materialism as Immanence
Get PDFDeleuze’s interpretation of Spinoza in the late 1960s was of seminal importance in the creation of a political Spinozism. Deleuze’s thought, it should be pointed out, is guided by a relation of strict fidelity to Spinoza — a figure that accompanied the inflections in Deleuze’s trajectory and in his treatment, alongside Félix Guattari, of numerous contemporary political issues. This work proposes to examine some of the theoretical effects resulting from Deleuze’s interpretation
Materialism, Matter, Matrix, and Mater:Contesting Notions in Feminist and Gender Studies
Get PDFThis chapter compares two strands of thought that experienced a difficult translation into the French context: new materialism (NM) and the gender debates within feminism. In this chapter, I analyse the different notions of material, materialism, or materiality at stake in various NM approaches. Following this, I show that socialist feminism, materialist feminism, and NM only share a rejection of postmodernism and anti-naturalism. I claim that the very different understandings of materialism within these feminisms must have contributed to this tepid reception of new materialism in France
The World after Fiction:J. M. Coetzee’s <i>The Childhood of Jesus</i>
Get PDFOpponents of World Literature fear that its advent marks the end of the ‘work of literature’. J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus (2013) presents a world in which the work of literature has indeed been forgotten. Migrants arrive in a new life ‘washed clean’ of the burden of the European tradition. Simón, who dimly recalls the old life, feels that something is missing in the new. He longs for something altogether ‘other’. Might Simón learn from the exceptional child David to perceive the ‘likeness’ in this world? Are we to read Coetzee’s novel like Simón or like David — and with what consequence for our understanding of the work of literature in a time of World Literature