..., and expressive movement and gesture shape human subjectivities within a newly mediatized social realm. The article explores Balázs’s consequent plea for a film politics of popular embodiment and asks what a survey of Balázs’s writings as both critic and theorist tell us about the political valences of his film...

... Hansen Ludwig Klages expressive movement In Convolute W of the unfinished Arcades Project , Walter Benjamin refers to the “idea of revolution as an innervation [ Innervation ] of the technical organs of the collective” as one of the “articles of my politics.” 1 The idea is repeated in material...

.... Benjamin's fragment Capitalism as Religion , written in 1921, takes up certain discourses and transforms them by his own writing. Its inconsistencies (or “ungrammaticalities”) and semantic displacements institute a textual movement, which turns out to be allegorical. It thus both constructs and deconstructs...

... logically acceptable but foundational to ever-changing reality. Dialectics, as Adorno wrote elsewhere, is to be under- stood not “as a particular philosophical standpoint, but as the sustained attempt to follow the movement of the object under discussion and to help it fi nd expression.”27 Movement...

...Randall Halle Unleashed by the markets that led to the Great Recession, processes of gentrification rapidly transform major German cities. The experiences of urban transformation have found critical expression in documentary and feature film. This article reviews the cultural history...

... the concept in accordance with contemporary experimen- tal methods. He was interested in judgments about inner qualities based on exterior features. Most pertinent is his book Studies in Expressive Movement (1933). Brian Kane  99 his use of the term or its...

... dances delivered at the Warburg Library in March 1928, albeit with seeming ambivalence: “Although time’s chopper may sporadically cause damage by its intrusion, still kulturwissenschaftliche scholarship must delight in the fact that socially expressive movements are being salvaged in images...

... of his home, dealing only with himself and his discipline. Instead, he expressed a lively and living interest in the world of his time and in all its dimensions: a constant, almost restless movement of searching for what is new. In 1806 he composed a small autobiographical tract in French...

... image, tradition consists of the multitude of individual expressions of the Torah produced by those who dedicated themselves to the movement of its reception and transmission. In our attempt to concretize Benjamin’s image of how individuals are embedded in tradition (or rather, how the dynamics...

...- sive movement” (TotF, 81). The second tendency leads to what Gertrud Koch has identified as the anthropomorphic extension of the face to things and an embrace of the aesthetics of expressiveness.10 Landscapes, objects, décor—all can become faces that return the spectator’s gaze because...

... and Ferruccio Busoni (among others) after World War I is exem- plary in this regard; it triggered a music-aesthetic debate between representa- tives of tradition and the avant-garde that led to the precarious conflation of artistic and political movements. Provoked by Busoni’s Entwurf einer neuen...

... catastrophes of the early twentieth century as pathological expressions of the modern project of acceleration. Both adopt the Kantian term radical evil while engaging with these catastrophes; however, the intention is not to address the substantial body of philosophical work on how we might respond...

... of innovation or daring in nude performance.” In avant-garde “expressive” dance, similarly, nudity had a diminished presence by 1930, though “ Nacktkultur in general continued to grow in popularity” ( “Nudity and Modernity,” 94 ). The movement away from spectacular nudity thus appears to have predated...

...” (the rupture ensues from without, beyond the movement proper of the music) (GS, 13:153). That a fanfare is at issue is crucial for Adorno. Fanfares are by their very nature announcements of presence; when they are distant, they are displaced outside their normal expressive range. The music promises...

... in the avant-garde’s l’art pour l’art and the corresponding disregard for how art might speak to lived experi- ence. Yet it is only by developing a rationality capable of giving expression to the experience of art that the public will have access to that experience. This double movement—toward both...

... . “The Role of the Student Movement in Germany.” In Autonomy and Solidarity: Interviews with Jürgen Habermas , edited by Dews Peter , 229 – 36 . London : Verso . ———. 1996 . “Appendix 1: Popular Sovereignty as Procedure (1988).” In Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory...

... socialized into the worker’s movement, he became active in Social Democratic circles but eventually aligned himself with National Socialist ideas and beliefs. He built a literary career by expressing opinions and beliefs from the perspective of the “little people” and became a new type of working-class...

... to be improved into a useful organ of the community.”61 For Nietzsche, radical politics are in their very essence an expression of ressentiment. His analysis, which groups together anarchism, socialism, and various democratic movements under the same general category, focuses again on the problem...

... and months before being snuffed out, they had already lost the ability to observe, to remember, compare and express themselves. We speak in their stead, by proxy.4 These terrible words express a piercing sense of survivor’s guilt: a shame at having survived, and with that shame the sense...

... As paradoxical as the expression sounds, Rodin seeks the impression of the supermomentary [Übermomentanen]; he seeks the timeless impression. —Georg Simmel, “Rodin” In his memorial tribute to Georg Simmel, Georg Lukács...