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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 153–176.
Published: 01 August 2016
... with
other things, and their agency is always “distributed,” as Peter Taylor puts it,
emerging “within the interpersonal, cultural and natural flows around it.”11
Affinity studies is one of several “new materialisms” informing current devel-
opments in ecocritical theory.12 What is “new...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 25–32.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Dan Diner In this article Diner briefly rethinks the impact of enlightenment as a historical current of thought and of modernity as its material equivalent. The text unfolds its argument against the backdrop of growing intellectual skepticism toward Western culture and its achievements, especially...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 147–175.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Ricardo Samaniego de la Fuente Abstract Rejecting a reading of Theodor W. Adorno as a critic of the culture industry who could not conceive of film’s critical potential, many commentators have argued that for Adorno, film can become autonomous and thus a medium for social critique. This article...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 43–61.
Published: 01 August 2021
... understanding of “spiritual experience [ geistige Erfahrung ]” as a more than merely theoretical matrix for what Adorno, in Negative Dialectics and the lecture courses, calls his materials studies. Rather than indicating largely esoteric or theosophical elements in Kandinsky’s influence on modernist aesthetic...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 15–48.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Ville Suuronen Drawing on a large array of less-known materials, this article offers a new comparison of Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt by focusing on their opposing understandings of National Socialism as a novel political ideology. While Schmitt’s Nazi writings theorize a new kind of racial...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 73–94.
Published: 01 August 2010
... subterranean
space, the reigning image of subterranean Berlin was metaphorical: the under-
world of decadent Weimar culture, a subversive image reinforced during the
1920s by the political identity das rote Berlin (red Berlin). There are material
grounds for this difference in underground identity...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 51–78.
Published: 01 August 2024
... material sites, cultural representations, and visual and verbal icons, which she treats as a majority discourse . 58 She connects the first fragments of knowledge about her family to a school trip to Auschwitz, even though she characteristically remembers nothing from the trip except the three silver...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 99–140.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Objectivity material culture The exponential growth of German cities after the foundation of the Reich in 1871 until the National Socialist takeover in 1933 made housing and dwelling compelling subjects of national interest. 1 The existential housing problem prompted a search for ultimate solutions...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 87–102.
Published: 01 August 2012
... Betts, “The Twilight of
the Idols: East German Memory and Material Culture,” Journal of Modern History 72, no. 3 (2000):
743; and Rossade, “Cultural Transformation in Eastern Germany after 1990,” German as a Foreign
Language, no. 2 (2005): 3. The motif of waste and rubbish and questions about...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 109–142.
Published: 01 February 2024
... an additional angle to the evolving scholarship on Jewish postwar material history and culture. 75 The interior photos included in Andreas Meyer’s memoir written in 1993 are a further example of the longue durée suggested by interior photography. 76 Born in 1921 in Rheda, a town in North Rhine...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 1–20.
Published: 01 August 2016
... cultural theory has also
seen the emergence of approaches commonly united under the label posthu-
manism. Contemporary posthumanism similarly contextualizes human beings
within their material, cultural, and ecological environs. However, it levels crit-
icism at the commonly held humanist view...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 11–24.
Published: 01 August 2012
..., 1994); Jeannine Fiedler, ed., Photography at the Bauhaus (Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 1990).
29. Rose-Carol Washton Long, “From Metaphysics to Material Culture: Painting and Photog-
raphy at the Bauhaus,” in James-Chakraborty, Bauhaus Culture, 43–62.
30. John V. Maciuika, Before the Bauhaus...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 169–203.
Published: 01 February 2017
... generation of artists who emerged to define the dissident and counter-
cultural visual cultural scenes of the 1970s, was an old man whose own artistic
training belonged to a very different prewar era. Further, Glöckner’s use of
modest found materials—appropriated from household packaging and other...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 103–137.
Published: 01 August 2008
... sums this idea up as follows: “The
theory of the correlation of cultural disorder with economic conditions—and
with the confl icts of interest that emerge from them—reveals nothing about the
degree of reality or the hierarchical relationship of material and intellectual
goods” (“Bemerkungen,” 6...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 23–41.
Published: 01 August 2021
... cultural criticism. Adorno follows Benjamin to this point but no farther. He sees transience as a discursive treatment of material objects that releases them from the ideological appearance of reconciliation and discloses them as they would appear without ideology. That is a cognitive gain, and one still...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 105–140.
Published: 01 February 2020
... Christopher D. and Wedepohl Claudia . West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 19 , no. 1 ( 2012 ): 106 – 24 . Warburg Aby M. Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America , edited and translated by Steinberg Michael P...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 139–167.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Justin Neville Kaushall Abstract This article argues that Immanuel Kant’s concept of disinterested contemplation is inadequate because it represses the historical suffering of nature, and thus the aesthetic object’s materiality. It also argues that Theodor W. Adorno’s concept of natural beauty...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 49–78.
Published: 01 February 2018
... more or less clear
feeling for his perceived historical situation. It was the situation of historical
materialism” (EF, 261). In other words, in his attention to the historical impact
of culture, economics, and technology on art production, Fuchs became a cut-
ting-edge art collector. Fuchs...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 115–135.
Published: 01 August 2015
...,” in Twilight Memo-
ries: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (London: Routledge, 1994), 255.
12. Baudrillard, “Marginal Objects,” 74.
118 Encountering Lateness
marily concerned with fetishizing authentic material artifacts as “figures of
lateness” that meet a demand for “definitive or fully...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 141–178.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Association seminar “Material Culture and Its Discontents.” I thank the organizers, Ilinca Iuraşcu and Catriona MacLeod, and the participants for their thoughtful engagement. I also thank the staffs of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach and the Literaturarchiv der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek...
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