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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 201–227.
Published: 01 August 2017
... to combat revolutionaries. This article demonstrates the shared contours of crisis across music and politics, specifically placing Salome in an imperial context and showing the role of German biopolitics in the repression of modernist music. Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow oversaw a shift from positive...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 1–6.
Published: 01 November 2008
... theology as a form of biopolitical critique, like Giorgio Agamben, or who see it as a key to the 4. Gray, Black Mass, 128–34. 5. Carl Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, trans. Ellen Kennedy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001), 8n4. 6. Ibid., 36. 7. “Die spezifi sch...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 35–56.
Published: 01 November 2008
...: the (biopolitical) implications of the emergence of the modern notion of Beruf , and the relevance and possibility of a “secularized” or “postsecular” messianism. New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Beruf: Luther, Weber, Agamben Christiane Frey...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 97–120.
Published: 01 November 2008
... of the three—the discourse swerved, taking on the theopolitical as the “true” messianic calling. By historicizing political theology within the German Jewish response in Palestine, the article problematizes some key concepts of current biopolitical critique. New German Critique, Inc. 2008 The Jerusalem...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 103–123.
Published: 01 February 2021
..., choosing instead the generic name “Negro.” It is as if his instincts had warned him against a biopolitical practice, or rather, as if life in America had put him on guard. Important in this regard are the similarities between the situation of African Americans and Jews in Kafka’s day. As Holitscher’s book...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 133–162.
Published: 01 August 2017
.... But she may think that biopolitical operations construct Europeanness in ways that complicate the relation between pessi- mistic diagnosis and optimist ideality, and perpetuate European pseudocon- sensuses rather than create settings of a truly enabling dialogue that would voice countermemories...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 1–32.
Published: 01 August 2018
... of biopolitics. Against Agamben, who focuses on law and sovereignty, Benn reminds us that the modern notion of bare life is bound up with the rise of the life sciences; and against Foucault, who brackets questions of value and inequality, Benn’s text shows that the biopolitical regulation of populations rests...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 83–119.
Published: 01 November 2006
... of society, the common enemy, to its interior: the agenda of biopolitics. As the pro- paganda discourse of “general mobilization” did not halt at the gates of an already highly specialized insurance press, Kafka and his colleagues were instructed that “the same basic idea is crucial for building up...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 139–167.
Published: 01 February 2012
... outside the law, then at the center of the crisis of law, at the foundational point where a new law, or a new mixture of racial biopolitics and law, is asserted (exemplified in the slogan “Ausländer raus This law-founding gesture gives political meaning to the neo-Nazis’ violence (as do...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 1–5.
Published: 01 November 2006
... surprisingly novel perspectives. Benno Wagner reads Franz Kafka as the “fi rst reader” of Fried- rich Nietzsche in relation to the biopolitics of risk and insurance, danger and uninsurability. Stefanie Harris explores Rainer Maria Rilkeʼs obsession with the visual in The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 181–209.
Published: 01 February 2021
... of Biopolitics , 116 . 47. Brown, Undoing the Demos , 34 . 48. Many have contested this view of fascism as an “aberration” from liberalism and the Enlightenment, perhaps most famously Horkheimer and Adorno in Dialectic of Enlightenment . Others have argued that, historically, “fascism...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 149–181.
Published: 01 February 2009
... and Participation,” International Journal of Epidemiology 30 (2001): 38. 14. Thomas Mueller and Thomas Beddies, “‘The Destruction of Life Unworthy of Living’ in National Socialist Germany,” International Journal of Mental Health 35, no. 3 (2006): 97. 15. Edward Ross Dickinson, “Biopolitics, Fascism...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 119–140.
Published: 01 February 2016
... witnesses European literature’s founding biopolitical scene, marked by Zeus’s tyrannical power inscription over the titan’s docile body. Yet this marking is reversely appropriated in the incision of the writing of torture in art. Strikingly, of the scene’s four characters, two remain silent, Bia...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 25–56.
Published: 01 February 2020
..., but the personal assets located within us, properties such as ‘the capacity for learning, discipline, the capacity for abstraction, punctuality’” (34, 35). On the biopolitical exploitation of human capital, see Foucault, Birth of Biopolitics , 221 . 21. Stanitzek, “Hypertext (Kluge).” 22...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 167–187.
Published: 01 November 2017
... in Honor of Georg G. Iggers , edited by Edward Wang Q. Fillafer Franz L. , 322 – 45 . Oxford : Berghahn . Foucault Michel . 2008 . The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979 , edited by Senellart Michel . Basingstoke : Palgrave/Macmillan...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 99–128.
Published: 01 February 2015
..., 2005), where the messianic and aporetical category of students potentially disrupts the transformation of “the juridical-political system into a [biopolitical] death machine” (145). 114  Justice for Josef K. this “complicated and patient strategy” politics is hard to say. It is linked...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 37–58.
Published: 01 February 2016
... through another primitivist transformation. The interpenetration of physiology and art that characterizes Benn’s primitivism from the outset is projected onto the colo- nialist equation of race and culture.5 What I term Benn’s unique “biopoetics” merges with the broader biopolitics of colonial...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 31–52.
Published: 01 February 2006
...: “For millennia man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for political existence. Modern man is an animal whose politics call his existence as a living being into question.”12 Foucault is here insinuating his conception of modernity as biopolitics...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 61–81.
Published: 01 February 2009
... of totalitarianism in another lan- guage, another logic, a logic incompatible with that of Nazism. Rather than succumb to the language and logic of numbers, a logic that, in regard to the biopolitics of totalitarian extermination, entails a distinct moment of complic- ity, Arendt’s way out...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 121–152.
Published: 01 February 2014
... a process intimately linked to the state’s biopolitical technologies and its novel deterritorial spatial configurations, the ultimate blow came in the costumes of absolutist sovereignty, that is, as old-fashioned power over life—though an almost unrecognizable, interpretatively decreased life—itself...