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“After the Massacre of Illusions”: Specters of the German Democratic Republic in the Work of Volker Braun
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 103–118.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Karen Leeder The German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded on the specter of communism; it now haunts contemporary capitalism as unrealized aspiration, trauma, or travesty. This article focuses on the representation of the after-life of the GDR in the work of Volker Braun. It examines...
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Sound Biopolitics: Modernist Music and Degeneration in the Wilhelmine Empire
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 201–227.
Published: 01 August 2017
... to negative biopolitics, which sought to improve national health by removing unhealthy opposition. Both the structures of imperialism and the specter of degeneration should be credited with a pre-Nazi merger of sovereignty and biopolitics, which affected aesthetics no less than eugenics. Modernist music...
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The two filmmakers, Julian Radlmaier (left) and Max Linz, as Frédéric Morea...
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in Class Relations: Diagnoses of the Present in the Films of Julian Radlmaier and Max Linz
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 1. The two filmmakers, Julian Radlmaier (left) and Max Linz, as Frédéric Moreau and Deslauriers in A Specter Is Haunting Europe (2013), directed by Julian Radlmaier.
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Queer Spectrality and the Hope of Heterolingual Address
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 25–35.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of hallucination, I read this scene as a haunting. According to Avery Gordon, haunting is a frightening experience that registers harms or losses sustained by social violence in both the past and present. Specters such as Ciwan appear when the violence they represent is no longer containable. 18 As Emine’s...
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Radical Democracy without Risks? Habermas on Constitutional Patriotism and Civil Disobedience
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 105–132.
Published: 01 August 2017
... in Habermas' Between Facts and Norms.” In Habermas: A Critical Reader , edited by Dews Peter , 153 – 77 . Oxford : Blackwell . ———. 2015 . “Recent Theories of Civil Disobedience: An Anti-legal Turn?” Journal of Political Philosophy 23 , no. 2 : 427 – 49 . Specter Matthew G...
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Totality Reconsidered: Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness a Century On
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (2 (149)): 71–99.
Published: 01 August 2023
... Forms (2015). 55 On this map, Derrida’s and Latour’s positions are particularly relevant to the recovery of totality as a critical concept, due to the prominence of their views within the contemporary academy. Derrida’s Specters of Marx (1993) calls on “a [certain] spirit of Marxism...
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The Call to Political Geography
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 185–192.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Or Rosenboim, Matthew Specter, Udi Greenberg, and Daniel Bessner have shown, much geopolitical thinking traveled with émigrés across the Atlantic to serve as the founding framework of international relations and US foreign policy from Henry Morgenthau to Henry Kissinger. 11 The close association...
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Class Relations: Diagnoses of the Present in the Films of Julian Radlmaier and Max Linz
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 53–78.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Figure 1. The two filmmakers, Julian Radlmaier (left) and Max Linz, as Frédéric Moreau and Deslauriers in A Specter Is Haunting Europe (2013), directed by Julian Radlmaier. ...
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German New Lefts: Postwar Socialists between Past and Future
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 117–149.
Published: 01 August 2019
... haunted the 1960s as a specter of both attraction and aversion. 3 Generational conflict was the most visible sign of the cycle of new lefts that structured the history of Western European socialism in the twentieth century. The German case exemplifies trends in British, French, and other European...
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Habermas the Freelance Journalist: The Relationship between Theory and Practice in Habermas’s Early Career
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 167–200.
Published: 01 August 2024
... help explain his attraction to the Frankfurt School in general, as well as to Theodor Adorno specifically. 3. Specter, “Habermas in German, European, North Atlantic, and Global Perspective.” 4. For more on Habermas’s contributions to these debates, see Verovšek, “Integration after...
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Occult Conspiracies: Spirits and Secret Societies in Schiller's Ghost Seer
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 65–81.
Published: 01 February 2008
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single yet hybrid textual body: in representing specters and revenants, the
narrative drew on the popular genre of gothic fi ction (Schauerroman) estab-
lished by Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto (1764). At the same time, the text
transferred the language of phantoms and ghosts to its description...
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Natural History and Aesthetic Truth in Aesthetic Theory
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 23–41.
Published: 01 August 2021
... for a missing subject, death that stands for life, creaturely life that stands for its own overcoming, and the specter of a meaningless history that stands for its own negation. This rather lightly secularized sense of natural history as a response to a crisis of meaning also points to the crucial moment...
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Searching for a Storyteller, Remediating the Archive: Philip Scheffner’s Halfmoon Files
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 103–124.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., is that missing space “between sound and image” that Scheffner seems to avidly seek but simultaneously resist—what Gordon refers to as the space of the ghost story. 44 I propose that this space is invoked through remediation. This is where specters come to life. When The Halfmoon Files cites the silent texts...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 1–29.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., the widespread motif of various kinds of revenants (specters, doppel-
gängers, zombies, vampires, and the undead) in recent work from the Berlin
Republic speaks to a society looking over its shoulder and chronically haunted
by its multilayered pasts.51 As Jacques Derrida points out, after all, the specter...
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Erich Auerbach’s Figural Interpretation and the Uncanny Jew
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New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 1–29.
Published: 01 February 2025
... Unheimliche,” 262 . 33. Freud, “‘Uncanny,’” 249 ; Freud, “Das Unheimliche,” 263 . 34. Windsor, “Freud on the Uncanny.” 35. Derrida, Specters of Marx , 1 . 36. Benjamin, Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels , 202 . In 1928 Auerbach and Benjamin met at the Berlin...
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The Last War: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 63–82.
Published: 01 November 2006
... repetition of such mixtures within a globalized mono-
culture a perverse capacity to name these—in Ho Chi Minh City and practically
anywhere else—as rooted, “local,” by virtue of their compensatory appeals to
cultural continuity. At the same time, the very specter of intensifi ed geopolitical...
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Joachim Bruhn’s Left-Wing Critique of Anti-Zionism and the Capitalist State in the 1990s: An Intellectual History of the Antideutsche
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 125–157.
Published: 01 November 2024
... political potentials of ISF Antideutsche critique may have been only a specter that dissipated by the 2000s, but as with the initial specter of communism registered by Marx and Engels in the mid-nineteenth century, it is precisely as paths not taken that such past contenders must be remembered. Otherwise...
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Adorno and the Role of Sublimation in Artistic Creativity and Cultural Redemption
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 63–84.
Published: 01 August 2021
...: Photography in a Global Age , edited by Hurm Gerd , Reitz Anke , and Zamir Shamoon , 57 – 70 . London : Routledge , 2018 . Jay Martin . “ Modernism and the Specter of Psychologism .” In Cultural Semantics: Keywords of Our Time , 165 – 80 . Amherst : University...
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The Radicalism of the Banality of Evil: Ideology and Political Conformity in Arendt
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 197–220.
Published: 01 August 2019
... ; LaFay, Hannah Arendt and the Specter of Totalitarianism , chaps. 3–4; and King, Arendt and America , 297–318 . See also Haddock, Roberts, and Sutch, Evil in Contemporary Political Theory , in which most of the essays engage in one form or another with Arendt’s concept of the banality of evil...
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The Spirit of Technology: Early German Thinking about Film
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 125–144.
Published: 01 August 2014
... from the constraints of everyday life, film represents a powerful liberat-
ing force.
Like Maxim Gorky in his famous 1896 “Kingdom of Shadows” review,67
Tannenbaum describes cinema as a realm of incorporeal and soulless specters:
“Because they lack any sort of spiritual depth...
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