...Friedrich Kittler; Geoffrey Winthrop-Young The essay presents a reading of three war-related texts: Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell , Heinrich von Kleist’s The Battle of Hermann , and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow . Written against the background of the Revolutionary Wars and the Prussian...

... as it is found in Friedrich Schiller. If an autonomous subject possesses something exaggeratedly, superfluously, or irrationally elaborate, and if that subject further experiences ownership as liberation from the forceful demands of goal-oriented rationality and utilitarian thinking, then that something...

... of Image Theory and Phenomenology at the Friedrich Schiller University, makes the case that luxury is what makes us human and that if we were to entirely abandon the world of the luxurious we would find ourselves cast into either a state of nature inhabited by beasts or a computational dystopia of hyper...

... interpretations. I am terribly proud of my exposure of Friedrich Schiller's Don Carlos . 3 I doubt that Schiller himself realized it, but he turned his own culturalization into literature and transferred it to Spain. Maybe it's my megalomania that others feel compelled to destroy, but I am convinced: that's...

... merely to confirm their own vision of reality. Within Continental philosophy, the German philosopher Lambert Wiesing’s “Toward a Phenomenology of Luxury” argues that the cultural politics of luxury must be allied with Friedrich Schiller’s famous case in On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794...

... words and names, Wagner appears to be operating alongside Friedrich Schiller and Ludwig van Beethoven. To guarantee its purity, to protect it from the inevitable contaminations and corruptions of practice, to have it change hearts and minds rather than ballots and wallets, the revolution must be moved...

..., the sunrise over [Friedrich] Schiller’s Rütli, the magical light of Tannhäuser’s Venus mountain, Sarastro’s sacred halls, Palestrina’s nocturnal study—they could now be staged with such realism that the Meiningers would have turned green with envy. 3 After all, when it comes to conjuring up illusions...

... ‘sexuality’; the camera transforms it into a reclining sculpture” ( Silverman and Farocki 1998 : 34). 6. See the discussion of Huckleberry Finn by Leo Marx (1964) . 7. Kittler is discussing Friedrich Schiller and Voltaire. Note the computer-like resonance of the term durchlaufen...

.... In this section, we make a political leap from Kantian reflections on the beautiful and the sublime to more contemporary political issues and ideas. This move is not as far-fetched as it might at first appear. Indeed, scholars from Friedrich Schiller (1982) to Hannah Arendt (1982) to Joseph Chytry (1989...

... as one would, for example, one’s bride or mother. This is the gist of the first half of “ De Nostalgia ,” which analyzes Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell as an instance in the creation of nostalgia. As the original medical term for homesickness, nostalgia initially referred to the yearning...

... . Miles Malcolm . 2015 . Limits to Culture . London : Pluto . Raymond Marcel . 1970 . Baudelaire to Surrealism . London : Methuen . Schiller Friedrich (1795) 1982 . On the Aesthetic Education of Man . Edited and translated by Wilkinson Elizabeth M. Willoughby L...

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... boosters and philosophers, is at its core a space created for the deployment and functioning of capital ( Schiller 2000 ; Hassan 2008 ). It is a society commodified to the highest degree. The “backbone” of the network society, the Internet, is developed and shaped by commercial interests, and its...