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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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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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Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
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