... exchange? Tawada's texts frame disasters as islands, as closed areas, which obstruct communication. As a result of translation and the islands' historical and geopolitical interconnections, Tawada's “disaster islands” remain, however, only partly isolated. They are constantly disturbed by outsiders...

... victimization, on the other. To that end, the essay elaborates on the building's place within the context of both German multiculturalism during the Cold War era and the United States' geopolitical choices after September 11. Apology and Triumph: Memory Transference, Erasure, and a Rereading of the Berlin...

.... German history is dense with suggestive answers to the evergreen questions of what a state should be and what kind of world it should exist in. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by New German Critique, Inc. 2023 German history political economy geopolitics geoeconomics global...

... of the transcendental life force in the human species as a whole. Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 Martin Heidegger Oskar Goldberg modern gnosticism vitalism geopolitics This article brings together two thinkers, one of whom, Martin Heidegger, will be known to all the readers...

... colonialism, fascism, and literary mod- ernism, and vice versa, to show how those discourses can help us read the impact of profound cultural and geopolitical transformation on the imagina- tion of a great writer. Primitivism is an index of cultural dislocation that artic- ulates, consciously...

... soil. Unlike Bidegain, whose emphasis is on the story, the characters, and a peripatetic geopolitical drama, Grisebach’s attention resides elsewhere. Bidegain transforms the “metaphor of The Searchers ” into an international rescue mission, while Grisebach appropriates a set of visual icons...

... uncovered in the following pages were only part of the broader matrix that made up the postwar world. They merged with the experiences of exile, war, and new geopolitical realities. This volume, however, suggests that the Cold War order cannot truly be understood without identify- ing the persistence...

... of organization. Simultaneously, the ontological dis- locations amplifi ed by the technologies of war (cold or hot) were being man- aged in cybernetic games of environmental and geopolitical risk like Fullerʼs World Game. These two projects eventually came together in the architectural “post- modernism...

...,” this journal can be instrumental in further challenging essentialist understandings of German identity. This task is more urgent than ever today as Germany embarks on yet another project of self-reinvention, following new geopolitical shifts and transformations in Europe. 1. Geyer, “Where Germans...

... integration, the global flow of people, ideas, and goods, as well as shifting geopolitical constellations, have transformed what German means; and critique , the guiding principle of the European Enlightenment, is forced to redefine itself in the dusk of Eurocentrism. With such momentous shifts, the field...

... problem” was limned as the collateral damage of an unfortunate series of geopolitical meltdowns in Africa and the Middle East—none of which were considered to implicate Germany, either historically or presently. In 2017 the local government of Berlin launched a campaign that showcased refugees...

..., is without question perceived as an attacker from outside and as nothing else. The difference between Star Trek and Raumpatrouille in terms of han- dling borders in space reflects historical and geopolitical desires and anxieties that had developed over a long time. Whereas the drive to the unknown...

... victory in World War II provided a semblance of stability and secu- rity, for the majority of those living in the metropoles at least, by mapping the opposition onto geopolitical borders: the East and the West and their respec- tive spheres of influence. Today, through the new technologies...

... false belief in its possession of universal truth. Habermas, who echoes Max Weber in describing himself as “religiously tone-deaf,” undertakes a philosophical reflection on religion’s relation to political theory, from reproductive technologies to immigration and geopolitics. A rising Muslim...

... the hid- den connections behind all events, these newer forms of conspiratorial repre- sentation instead attempt to explain not just a few anomalies in the offi cial version but a whole geopolitical backstory. In connecting the dots of pol- icy, procedure, and world affairs that are often obscured...

... of Europe from 1945 to 1948. But the power of conservative elites and Cold War geopolitics nipped that chance at socialism in the bud. He elaborated on this idea of Germany’s “missed chance at socialism” in his studies of the constitutional development of the Federal Republic. The occupation powers, he...

... with another in 1989–90 may have enormous geopolitical and historical significance, but the micropolitics of the moment of uncertainty, of popular resistance preceding even “Wir sind das Volk” (We are the people) and its reterritorialization into the logic of unification would have been the event...

... and immediately reviewed by Friedrich Meinecke in one of Kafkaʼs favorite monthlies, Die neue Rundschau), the Swedish geographer Rudolf Kjellén, a prominent champion of modern geopolitics, argues that the crucial character- istic of Nietzscheʼs overman is not high-spirited individualism but submis- sive...

... of the geopolitical location—and this by virtue of a battered, make- shift sign, barely visible at the edge of the frame, telling us that we are enter- ing the American sector. In Wilder’s 1947 Berlin there are no borders; there is no divided city. For instance, where the Brandenburg Gate soon became an icon...

... of history that have resigned themselves to mere mimesis and a tireless affirmation of self-identity. Today, a half century later, such ideologies amount to perpetuating, in mind and checkbook, geopolitical empire building, the mindless diversions of our con­ sciousness industry, daily worldwide...