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Earthquake in Haiti: Kleist and the Birth of Modern Disaster Discourse
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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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Translating Catastrophes: Yoko Tawada's Poetic Responses to the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake, the Tsunami, and Fukushima
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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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Of Mice and Men and Aquatic Flows: Distributed Agency in Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter
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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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Wounded Modernism: Adorno on Wagner
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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. © 2016 by New German Critique, Inc. 2016 Wounded Modernism...
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Tragedy, Modernity, and Terra Mater: Christa Wolf Recounts the Fall
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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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Hope in a Warming World: Rereading Adorno on Progress
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New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 131–160.
Published: 01 February 2025
... historical process. In the same year, he gave his lecture “Progress” in which he attempted a critical reading of the titular concept in light of those concerns. There he emphasized the need to reconceptualize emancipatory progress in terms of the possibility of “averting the most extreme, total disaster.” 5...
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Coming to Terms with the Future
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 61–69.
Published: 01 November 2023
... vulnerable countries and populations cope with climate disasters when and as they occur while leaving the structural causes and political dynamics for these disasters more or less intact. Given the stakes, commentators call this summit a “fiasco” of diplomacy. 11 Critical Theory, and Adorno especially...
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Working on the Myth of the Anthropocene: Blumenberg and the Need for Philosophical Anthropology
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 97–130.
Published: 01 February 2022
... that capitalism is the main driver of accelerating disasters. 9 The humanities understandably raise questions about Anthropos . According to Christophe Bonneuil, the biological category of species has been elevated to a “causal explanatory” power that oversimplifies and overdetermines the whole of human...
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Adorno’s Cosmopolitan Solidarity
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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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Truth and Enigma: Adorno and the Politics of Art
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 73–95.
Published: 01 November 2018
...,” whereas in Lyotard “the dissensus involved here is no longer called contradiction. Its name is now ‘disaster’ and the disaster is ‘original.’” 34 This alleged originality, in that it contains an element of necessity that the apocalyptic tone pervading some of Lyotard’s writings (especially The Inhuman...
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The Ruined Picture Postcard: Dresden's Visually Encoded History and the Television Drama Dresden
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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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Adorno's Rabbits; or, Against Being in the Right
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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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Water and Words: Narrating Sustainability
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 177–197.
Published: 01 August 2016
... 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
social order, this accent on the fundamental potential for precaution cannot be
stressed enough. Goethe himself elsewhere draws...
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Mapping Babel: Language and Exile in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz
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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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Minima Patientia : Reflections on the Subject of Suffering
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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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Reflections on the European Promise
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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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It’s All about the Benjamins: Considerations on the Gambler as a Political Type
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2018
... Silver, who offered to place a one-thousand-dollar wager
on the outcome of the predicted presidential victory of Barack Obama 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...
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Media of Conspiracy: Love and Surveillance in Fritz Lang and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
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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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Ephemeral Spaces and Pneumatic Architecture: The Films of Nikolaus Geyrhalter
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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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