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Klangfiguren: Sonic Effects in Art and Science since the 18th Century
No full textSpecial issue of The Germanic Review, eds. Anders Engberg-Pedersen and Oliver Simon
The Humanities in the World
No full textTre nye essays af de internationalt anerkendte humanister Onora O'Neill, Stefan Collini og Rens Bod viser en anden side af humaniora, som dels er uadskillelig fra andre videnskaber, dels viser sig at have været selve forudsætningen for en del af vor tids mest avancerede teknologi. Opfordringen er klar fra bogens danske redaktør, professor Anders Engberg-Pedersen: "We need a better account of what the humanities are.
The Humanities in the World
No full textTre nye essays af de internationalt anerkendte humanister Onora O'Neill, Stefan Collini og Rens Bod viser en anden side af humaniora, som dels er uadskillelig fra andre videnskaber, dels viser sig at have været selve forudsætningen for en del af vor tids mest avancerede teknologi. Opfordringen er klar fra bogens danske redaktør, professor Anders Engberg-Pedersen: "We need a better account of what the humanities are.
War and French Theory
No full textWar features prominently in the broader formation of thought commonly referred to as French Theory. Particularly in the late 1970s and 1980s war attracted the attention of a number of the leading thinkers in France. In 1976 Michel Foucault offered his lecture course at the Collège de France, Il faut défendre la société; in the same year Raymond Aron published his large tome Penser la guerre: Clausewitz; in 1980 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari developed their theory of nomadology and the war machine in Milles plateaux; and in 1987 Guy Debord and Alice Becker-Ho published their wargame Le Jeu de la guerre, originally invented in 1965. This chapter examines the key role that war comes to play in French Theory from the 1970s onward. It traces the flux of historical concepts from early-nineteenth-century Prussian military thought into high theory in France and their transformation from military concepts into metaphors and figures of thought. It thereby offers an overview of the of the productive impact of war on French Theory, but also critically stakes out the limits of the militarization of thinking.<br/
War and Trauma
No full textFew concepts have become as closely associated with war literature as trauma. War literature revolves around the isolated voices of soldiers and their deeply unsettled afterlives – it takes as its subject matter the individual experience and consequences of war. This chapter argues, however, that the mass may be more than incidental in our understanding of how war literature embodies trauma. An overwhelming experience, trauma is deeply entangled with mass warfare, industrialisation, and the homogenous, empty time of global capitalism. The question of mass or scale is central to how we have come to conceptualise trauma more generally, whether in relation to genocide, pandemics, ecological limits to growth, or the political consequences of global finance or even mass trauma itself. Understood as a structural condition of anxiety, trauma is now even encroaching upon the future as a pre-traumatic foreboding of militarism and the threat of global catastrophe. Examining these links between war and the mass, this chapter suggests a reconceptualization of trauma that associates its characteristic temporal dislocations with questions of scale, uniformity, and incomprehension
Georg Brandes and the History of Emotions
No full textThe “current” constitutes the central concept in Georg Brandes’ grand oeuvre Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature. The concept denotes the major ideas and ideologies that dominated the successive periods Brandes examined, but it also designates a more elusive phenomenon – the whole emotional spectrum of feelings, moods, and sensibilities that suffused the individuals and societies that Brandes’ sought to describe and understand. Turning to literary works rather than political treatises, pamphlets, or other non-fictional documents, Brandes conceived of literature as an archive of both the ideas and the emotions of a given historical period. Indeed, Brandes’ famed “comparative literary perspective” was the prerequisite for discerning and writing a history of emotions. This chapter delves into Main Currents and outlines Brandes’ concept of emotions as he developed it across the six volumes. The chapter thereby seeks to recuperate a surprisingly innovative approach that serves as an important forerunner of Raymond William’s influential notion, in the 20th century, of ‘structures of feeling’ as well as a relevant background for the resurgence of interest in emotions, feelings, and affects in 21st century literary and cultural theory
Inquest and close-up:Jeanne d’Arc, Carl Th. Dreyer and the Apparatus of Justice 1431/1928
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