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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 35–55.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Sven Kramer Harun Farocki's silent film Respite (2007) presents footage from the Nazi camp at Westerbork that was commissioned by the camp's commander and filmed by its inmates. Using varying aesthetic strategies, including the insertion of on-screen commentary and the reuse of images while...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 25–56.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Dorothea Walzer; Mari Jarris Abstract Alexander Kluge’s oeuvre features aesthetic commentary as a process of problematization and investigation. With exemplary case studies of Kluge’s films, his literary collections of short stories, his television interviews, and his theory volumes composed...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 129–161.
Published: 01 February 2015
... Goldstücker's readings of Kafka and his understanding of his own life through his readings of Kafka. Goldstücker gradually came to frame his own past in terms borrowed from Kafka's Trial while interpreting Kafka's writings as a commentary on totalitarianism. A close reading of his memoir, written in exile...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 155–179.
Published: 01 February 2018
... feminist commentaries on their analysis—is Homer’s paragon of feminine sensuality: Helen of Argos and Troy. This article rereads the treacherous beauty through Horkheimer and Adorno’s critical perspective, arguing that despite Helen’s exclusion from the text of Dialectic of Enlightenment , she is central...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 171–195.
Published: 01 August 2019
... conception of history and simplistic binaries of good versus evil. Their works stage perpetrator documents in their entirety, without commentary. In this way they participate in the turn away from the “hermeneutics of suspicion” toward an affirmative critical practice. Without an interpretive “safety net...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 215–226.
Published: 01 February 2016
... as images of memory, happiness, and philosophical need while retaining the ungraspable remainder that, the commentary argues, is a necessary and desirable aspect of every translation. The essay “Amorbach” exemplifies the kind of thinking that Adorno, in the last paragraph of Negative Dialectics , refers...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 57–69.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky In his book The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans , Giorgio Agamben states that the famous hunchbacked dwarf from Walter Benjamin's first thesis on the philosophy of history was none other than Paul. Unlike Agamben, Benjamin was a reader...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 133–160.
Published: 01 November 2009
... busts, the plight of North Africans trying to reach Europe—without offering a coherent commentary on them? To make matters worse, Richter—for a supposed radical—has made quite a profit from his art while systematically avoiding a clear stance on what purportedly matters most to him. Focusing on three...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 59–82.
Published: 01 February 2023
... as its significance for Benjamin’s emerging political thought of the early 1920s. Through a commentary on both texts, the article seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the sources and meaning of the “continuity as catastrophe” thesis, sketching out how Benjamin’s singular vantage point could...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 133–160.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and a critical dialogue with commentaries on both the mountain film and discussions of Maddin’s oeuvre. Putting to use transnational perspectives, this analysis of a Canadian director’s appropriation of a hallmark German genre problematizes previous constructions of national identity and national cinema as well...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 5–21.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., what’s the point of it, what does it say?” ( AA , 18). It is only then that reflection begins, initially in the forms of commentary and critique (see AA , 18), in which the subjective experience of the artwork is rendered objective for the first time. However, in Adorno’s lectures from 1958–59, as well...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 35–56.
Published: 01 November 2008
... Agamben, Il tempo che resta: Un commento alla “Lettera ai Romani” (Turin: Bor-
inghieri, 2000). The following quotations are taken from The Time That Remains: A Commentary
on the Letter to the Romans, trans. Patricia Dailey (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005);
hereafter cited as TTR...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 119–135.
Published: 01 February 2006
... it in order to say that which it cannot say,
whereas art only is able to say what it says by not saying it” (AT, 113). Adorno
here puts his finger on the predicament at the core of the relation between spec
ulative commentary and aesthetic production. On the one hand, art—at least
the high modernist...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 65–84.
Published: 01 February 2011
... Jewish points of view; Joseph
Vilsmaier’s slapstick parody of the Nazis; and Wessel’s contention that Hit-
ler’s war on Europe finally caught up with German populations in the East.
This message, incidentally, resonates with the DVD commentary on Dresden:
that the German trauma of bombardment...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 179–210.
Published: 01 February 2023
... simply sought a deeper path to God than—rather than an alternative one to—the path of the Talmudic Jew, who found in the law and its commentaries the clear voice of divinity. 39 And unlike Scholem, Heschel valued the intellectual innovations of modern Hasidism, seeing the latter as a continuation...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 59–71.
Published: 01 November 2020
... on the internet, where it will appear as a spoken commentary sans images (except for trailers), often in the form of spontaneous reports from festival locations. Critics will lead a patchwork existence, supplementing their income by working as curators, staffing festivals, teaching, and collaborating on projects...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 17–34.
Published: 01 November 2011
... her title “Gender: A Useful Category of
Historical Analysis,” American Historical Review 91, no. 5 (1986): 1053–75.
1. I know of no serious commentary on aura apart from discussions of Benjamin. Recent work
with reference to Benjamin is abundant, however. Eight of the thirty essays in Hans...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 181–205.
Published: 01 November 2019
... with other cinematic essays, however, is the subtlety with which he negotiates images and sounds. His essay films, in their quiet, contemplative moments, sometimes demonstrate how images engage in a complex process of revealing and concealing, of exposing and obscuring, where the commentary repeatedly enters...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 43–61.
Published: 01 August 2021
... it not so much directly connotes but also more indirectly intimates and pulls into its orbit from a distance shades into further-ranging expressions that we can read as equally important or relevant translations, transpositions, and commentaries on the original terminology. These expressions, names...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 115–135.
Published: 01 August 2015
... in his commentary on commemoration in postunification Berlin:
“The aesthetic and empathetic evocation of [such a] situation is best combined
with the controlling instance of historical documentation, lest the aesthetic
means merely call forth from the beholder a response that plays on the emo...
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