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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 49–66.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Isak Winkel Holm In the vocabulary of modern disaster research, Heinrich von Kleist's seminal short story “The Earthquake in Chile” (1806) is a tale of disaster vulnerability. The story is not just about a natural disaster destroying the innocent city of Santiago but also about the ensuing social...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 171–194.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Kathrin Maurer Yoko Tawada's recent writings about the disasters in Japan of 2011 engage with the translatability of catastrophes. How can one translate disasters in ways that prevent “othering” and “isolating” them? How can one interpret disasters as products of cultural translation and knowledge...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 155–173.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the wounded or broken character of musical modernism and the experience of creaturely suffering. The modernist artwork leaves behind any aesthetic of “heroism” and emerges, as if from a disaster, with bodily injuries that can never be healed. Wounded Modernism: Adorno on Wagner...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 153–176.
Published: 01 August 2016
... tale foreground the ineluctable force of viewpoint in any narrative performance of ecocatastrophe. As such, it exemplifies how narrative fiction can provide an imaginative space of reflection to investigate both the complex causality of hybrid natural-cultural disasters and different modalities...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 115–141.
Published: 01 August 2007
... Wolf Recounts the Fall through a reading of Christa Wolf’s narrative reckoning with the Chernobyl disaster, Störfall: Nachrichten eines Tages (Accident: A Day’s News), the tragic is a profoundly problematic mode from an ecocritical perspective.3 In my view, though, Meeker’s criticism...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 97–130.
Published: 01 February 2022
...-on continuities, such as the developmental stages of childhood, natural disasters, illnesses, loss of families and friends, oppressive situations that aggravate a feeling of powerlessness, or the disintegration of any taken-for-granted lifeworld formation. Reassurance makes bearing brushes with the absolutism...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 31–58.
Published: 01 February 2023
... action driven by solidarity and giving it a political direction that is global in scope. These points come from Adorno pushing against the Kantian inheritance, articulating concepts suitable to the changed social and political context resulting from the disasters of the twentieth century. Taken...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 73–95.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., the notion that art bears witness to the absolute unpresentability of matter is tantamount to the assumption that the experience of the sublime expresses not simply a crisis but indeed a disaster of representation. Every attempt to ground an aesthetic (let alone a politics) on representation would...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 85–113.
Published: 01 February 2011
..., Dresden’s creators lend the events the flair of a universal tragedy by modeling the drama on Hollywood disaster movies, to which it contains multiple, easily identified references. The script also takes great pains to present a balanced perspective, not denying Nazi responsibility and pointing...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 179–190.
Published: 01 February 2006
..., the mourning that as recognition of the deranged and the absurd surrounds whatever is have 184 Against Being in the Right to be uncovered in the song itself, in the shooting of the two animals. In the one shot is to be found the disaster as a whole—so goes the eccentric moral that is to stand up...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 177–197.
Published: 01 August 2016
... to transcend what is conceivable and calculable, no matter how powerfully its might is manifested. In light of the conventional discourse about natural disasters in the second half of the eighteenth century, which emphasized the exceptional status of the natural event and its power to disrupt...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 3–26.
Published: 01 February 2012
... and the unearthing of Austerlitz’s true biography, to talk of “origin” is not just to speak of a birthplace that has been lost, forgot- ten, and destroyed, or of the hidden histories that in principle connect the exile to that place. It is also to talk of a state of being outside the disasters of history...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 53–72.
Published: 01 February 2006
... that exceeds it in breadth, depth, and gravity. The fading trace and the dis­ tant echo of the disaster will be quickly extinguished and forgotten in the per- verse reaction-formation of happiness, unless expression borrows the gravity of suffering and lingers almost passively at the limits of its capacity...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 133–162.
Published: 01 August 2017
... of environmental disasters, famine and poverty, economic imbal- ances and the risks of large-scale technology” (LT, 72). Though commendably nonanthropocentric in prioritizing the environment, this diagnostic is somewhat vague and limited to the vociferous. Has the world society learned how to deal with its...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 1–20.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of environmental stewardship. Kate Rigby examines the potential role of narrative fiction in enhancing disaster preparedness in the present context of escalating environmental crisis with respect to Theodor Storm’s novella Der Schimmelreiter. The multiple narrative frames of this tragic tale foreground...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2018
... in 2008, was as wrong as everyone else in predicting his successor);8 even the anxious discourse of ecological disaster sounds like high-stakes betting, with the future of the planet itself on the line, somehow already fated to disaster and still desperately worth saving. Benjamin’s gambler...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 127–144.
Published: 01 February 2008
... that is supposed to kill Number 326—but the disaster only brings Sonja and her lover together again. In fact, Haghi is the very personifi cation of something that cannot be represented as such: the mediality of power. He is the center of all media operations in the fi lm and himself serves, I intend...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 125–155.
Published: 01 November 2019
...) and his TV documentary Temelín (2002), for instance, 60 is picked up in the Homo Sapiens sequences of desolate Fukushima after the disaster from 2011, when a tsunami set off a nuclear meltdown at the local power plant. The fall of the Soviet Union, the backdrop in Pripyat , corresponds...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 217–246.
Published: 01 August 2020
...—the development can be shown quite clearly—the Angelus Novus , the angel of the machine, who, though he no longer bears any emblem of caricature or commitment, flies far beyond both. The machine angel’s enigmatic eyes force the onlooker to try to decide whether he is announcing the culmination of disaster...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 1–8.
Published: 01 February 2008
... on such thickets of inconsistency. Instead of corroborating one plausible hypothe- sis, they tend to discredit one another, opening up an abyss of uncertainty and distrust. This is what, after the JFK assassination, DeLillo called a “natural disaster in the heartland of the real”: the overwhelming feeling...