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...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...,” 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...

..., 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...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...) 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...