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    The assassination of time: (or the birth of zeta physics)

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    Rethinking epistemological questions as linked to the Enlightenment for the 21st century. An early attempt to infuse the Einsteinian relativity into a post-postmodern theory. The result: a peculiar re-assessment of time

    The Assassination of Time (or the birth of zeta-physics)

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    The Assassination of Time re-thinks the relation of singularity and dimension to the question of the Chronos/TIme. In so doing, it offers a different trajectory to the restaging of method and epistemology to metaphysics as a leap out of Hegelian dialectics and the Heideggarian dwelling via Nietzsche's madman prophetic verses and Einstein's infamous equation. The piece originally was delivered at the Digital Arts Week in Zurich as Invited speaker; it was then reworked and staged with musical composition by S. Kennedy in Berlin, New York, Wisconsin and LA and recorded as an album release (Feb 6, 2010

    Against Nature: Herzog’s Cinema

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    The collection – the first scholarly collection on Herzog’s work – aims to assemble papers on Herzog’s treatment of nature, landscape and ecology in both his filmic and literary oeuvre

    Matter that Bodies: Philosophy in the Age of a Complex Materialism

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    If there is one formula that has characterized most of poststructuralism|cultural studies it has been the formula \u27always already.\u27 Its Freudian logic [Nachträglichkeit] has been a favourite of writers as diverse as Lacan, Derrida, Baudrillard, Butler or Bhabha. Often unspoken, but therefore all the more powerful, has been the qualification \u27text|discourse|culture. Most branches of gender studies, especially those that operate at the interface between poststructuralism and cultural studies, have embraced this logic, which has caused many crucial insights into the logic of cultural productions and positionings. In the last years, however, a number of scholars, many coming from within gender studies themselves, have noted a certain blindness in and of this logic

    Narrating postmodern spaces in Thomas Pynchon’s novel(s)

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    Culture - Theory - Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies

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    Which theoretical and methodological approaches of contemporary cultural criticism resonate within the field of disability studies? What can cultural studies gain by incorporating disability more fully into its toolbox for critical analysis? Culture - Theory - Disability features contributions by leading international cultural disability studies scholars which are complemented with a diverse range of responses from across the humanities spectrum. This essential volume encourages the problematization of disability in connection with critical theories of literary and cultural representation, aesthetics, politics, science and technology, sociology, and philosophy
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