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Ambiguity of Scale:Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain — an Anthropocene Novel?
No full textThomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain is obsessed with questions of scale. Whether in its incessant reflection on days, weeks, months, years, minutes, or depths of fathoms and meters of altitude, the novel is driven by questions of the measurability of time and space. At the same time, one would hardly want to speak of measurability with regard to The Magic Mountain, either in terms of time or space. What, then, is this obsession with scale? The Magic Mountain, Strowick will argue, generates literary scales beyond measurability that address what the novel calls the ‘dual nature’ [Zwienatur] of time and space. The talk will explore this ambiguity of scale and its consequences for the question of narrative and the form of the novel. About 100 years after the publication of Thomas Mann’s novel, questions of scale are often discussed in theories of the Anthropocene. In fact, ‘scale critique’ is one of the most promising ways to analyse the Anthropocene. Is The Magic Mountain a setting for ‘scale critique’, an Anthropocene novel avant la lettre? Elisabeth Strowick is a Professor of German in the Department of German at New York University. Before joining NYU, she was Professor of German and Humanities, Chair of the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures, and Co-Director of the Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought at Johns Hopkins University. Elisabeth Strowick has held numerous academic positions, including visiting professorships, at universities in the United States, Germany (FU Berlin, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin, University of Hamburg), and Switzerland (University of Zurich, University of Basel). She was awarded a Feodor Lynen Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Yale, Johns Hopkins, 2004-2006). Her areas of expertise are German literature, culture, and thought from the 19th century to the present, with special emphasis on literary theory, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, the poetics of knowledge, and ecocriticism. She is the author of Passagen der Wiederholung: Kierkegaard — Lacan — Freud (Metzler, 1999), Sprechende Körper — Poetik der Ansteckung (Fink, 2009), Gespenster des Realismus. Zur literarischen Wahrnehmung von Wirklichkeit (Fink, 2019) and has (co-)edited numerous volumes and special issues of peer-reviewed journals. Elisabeth Strowick is currently working on a book on ‘Literary Scale Critique: The Anthropocene as Deep War Time’.00:00 Introduction by Claudia Peppel07:29 Talk by Elisabeth Strowick1:09:48 Discussio
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Phantasmagorien des Untergangs bei Richard Wagner und Lars von Trier
No full textDer Artikel untersucht die Verhandlung von Untergangsmotiven und die daraus entwickelte "Ästhetik des Dunklen" bei Richard Wagner und Lars von Trier
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
"Humanisierung der Arbeit" im (post)modernen Kapitalismus? Bemerkungen zu den Aussichten einer "kritischen" Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
Full text linkSpekuliert wird über die Aussichten einer "kritischen" Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie, die sich in humanistischer, der Aufklärung verpflichteter Tradition einen normativen Arbeitsbegriff zu eigen macht und die darauf besteht, Arbeit nicht ohne Reflexion der konkreten Produktionsverhältnisse in bestimmten Gesellschaftsordnungen zu betrachten und zu gestalten. Skizzenartig wird das gegenwärtige Bild der Arbeit unter industriellen und informationsgesellschaftlichen Bedingungen nachgezeichnet. Der Beitrag der Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie an Humanisierungs- und Rationalisierungsprozessen wird analysiert. Auf die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer kritischen Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie im (post)modernen Kapitalismus wird eingegangen. Als heuristische Bestimmungsstücke werden für sie (1) die eher sozialwissenschaftliche Ausrichtung, (2) die Präferenz gegenstandsangemessener qualitativer Methoden, (3) ihre im Zweifelsfall gegebene Parteilichkeit für abhängig Beschäftigte, (4) ihr macht- und herrschaftskritischer Ansatz, (5) ihr Bemühen um eine entwickelte Gesellschafts- und Subjekttheorie, (6) die Technologie- und Technikanwendungsskepsis, (7) ein geschlechtsdifferenzierender Blick, (8) eine ideologiekritische Ausrichtung, (9) Misstrauen gegenüber (eigenen) Professionalisierungstendenzen sowie (10) ihr Theoriebezug ohne Praxisfeindlichkeit benannt
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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