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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 141–178.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Jacob Haubenreich Abstract This article examines the persistence of the notion of the immaterial text in literary studies, now decades into the so-called material turn. Digitization of manuscripts increasingly confronts us with the facts of textual materiality and material authorship, yet many...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 113–133.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., the following essay illuminates not only how reading and writing embody these oppositions between form and formless but also how this tension culminates in Weiss’s poetic regeneration of a Marxism uncanny in nature despite what he perceived as dialectical materialism’s bureaucratic exhaustion in the Eastern...
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Published: 01 February 2024
Figure 13. László Moholy-Nagy, untitled photogram (ca. 1927). Reproduced and erroneously dated 1925 in von material zu architektur , 1929. More
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 87–102.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Gillian Pye This article looks at the interplay between material authenticity, waste, decay, loss, and forgetting in Wolfgang Hilbig's prose texts Die Kunde von den Bäumen ( The Lore of the Trees , 1992) and Alte Abdeckerei ( Old Knackers Yard , 1991). It argues that the thrown-away, the ruined...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 173–195.
Published: 01 February 2020
... opening, an attempt Petzold eventually abandoned. In the postwar world of Phoenix , it is too soon to perform the reconstructive work undertaken by Bauer—here reconstruction has to do, rather, with erasure and forgetting. For contemporary memory work, meanwhile, all that remains are the material traces...
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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 (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 59–89.
Published: 01 February 2016
... as with Balázs's fellow Marxist Walter Benjamin, this article outlines key aspects of both right-wing and left-wing physiognomics. While Balázs did share with reactionary physiognomists the problematic idealist tendency to view the body as materialized soul, his views on physiognomy evaded racial essentialism...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 153–176.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Kate Rigby Theodor Storm's novella Der Schimmelreiter is set in northwestern Germany, a region with a long history of dyke building and coastal flooding. Drawing on insights into material agency, complexity, and the entwinement of materiality and discourse that have emerged from science studies, I...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 83–101.
Published: 01 February 2009
...? Or is Simmel's tone better understood as reserve, a refusal to suggest a totalizing account of modernity? This essay aims to reevaluate and defend Simmel's aesthetic interpretation of modernity on the grounds of his latent materialism. Focusing on his discussion of Auguste Rodin's sculpture and the impressionist...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 39–71.
Published: 01 November 2009
... and modernism conditionally. In architecture, “modernization” resulted in the invention of new materials and construction or production methods (technology), and the design challenge of new building types like railroad stations, airports, and public housing. “Modernism” refers to the corresponding aesthetic...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 93–112.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of reading suggested in the novel also imply that these future readers may interrupt overly rigid historical narratives that may prevent emancipation in specific contexts. The novel remains relevant because of both its historical material and its sophisticated form, which explores aesthetic mediation...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 33–76.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Figure 13. László Moholy-Nagy, untitled photogram (ca. 1927). Reproduced and erroneously dated 1925 in von material zu architektur , 1929. ...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 73–94.
Published: 01 August 2010
... . There are material grounds for this difference in underground identity, but this essay focuses on the Wall that gave the city a metaphorics of space symbolizing the global divisions it embodied in a brutally physical manner and the tunnels that, in their very invisibility, were seen both to echo and to subvert...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 5–26.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of its own. In his late embrace of musique informelle , he admired a music that eschewed both reified categories and subjective domination of the apparent contingency of the material world, a music that expressed a nominalism that might better be called “magical” than “conventional.” © 2016 by New...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 33–53.
Published: 01 August 2016
... a materiality of writing inscribed in his travel journals. By interpreting nineteenth-century portraits of him, I show the link between the researcher and his journals, which also underlines his craft of turning handwriting into an iconic theme. Humboldt's works and journals imply a landscape of theory based...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 139–154.
Published: 01 November 2016
... ), and image ( Bild ) in Adorno's philosophical and musical texts from the early 1930s to the late 1960s and material from the Nachlass , the case is made that his conception of interpretation involves not only the decipherment of the riddle-character of art but also the construction of further “interpretive...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 127–151.
Published: 01 August 2016
... analyzes Jenny Erpenbeck's novel Heimsuchung ( Visitation , 2008) through Gernot Böhme's ecological nature aesthetics and the material ecocriticism of Jane Bennett and of Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann. Their respective “new humanist” and “posthumanist” theoretical frameworks offer insights...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 205–216.
Published: 01 February 2017
... vacui of the postmodern subject, and reads the excessive sharing of every moment as a flight from the self and toward the “homeland” of the network. With a nod to Paul Ricoeur's concept of narrative time, Siegfried Kracauer's description of photography as the mere recording of the material, and Zygmunt...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 103–137.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Kevin S. Amidon In his early writings Max Horkheimer explored the issues surrounding biological explanation in Kantian and neo-Kantian philosophy. After he became director of the Institut für Sozialforschung in 1930, he continued to explore the relationships between biology, materialism...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 7–33.
Published: 01 November 2008
... of an analogy between the divine and the human realms, the foundation of modern immanentist theology of the secular. Using a rich patristic material, Peterson showed that Schmitt's arguments would founder on the orthodox Christian dogma of the Trinity and that any political establishment on earth is rendered...