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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 125–144.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Katharina Loew Focusing on the German discussion about film between 1907 and 1914, this article explores efforts to fathom film technology's ability to provide access to a spiritual dimension. Some commentators argued that film technology facilitated novel forms of creative expressivity...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 113–137.
Published: 01 February 2012
... romantic relationships, undermining the monopoly of the love letter. Lewis and Hurley suggest that popular music and its technologies of self-production and consumption have not made good on their promise of a shared language but are inscribed instead as “technologies of gender.” © 2012 by New German...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 53–72.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Martin Scherzinger In “Radio Physiognomics” Theodor W. Adorno outlines the social features of music's radio broadcast, a still relatively new technology for music transmission and listening in the 1930s. The present article deploys Adorno's “physiognomic” analytics to diagnose the kinds...
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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 (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 89–131.
Published: 01 August 2009
... photographic elements in dynamic relation to one another. While Moholy-Nagy was a prolific theorist who published frequently on the role of photography and related visual technologies in postwar society, few of Brandt's writings survive. Yet her montages address similar issues, particularly questions of how...
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Published: 01 February 2024
Figures 11–12. Egon Eiermann and Robert Hilger, housing in Buchen and Waldrün near Hettingen, 1946–49. Saai, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eiermann bequest EE#071_VP_D_A and Eiermann BSIII. More
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 125–152.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of anthropomorphism and abstraction that structures modern production. Müller also considers mythical thinking itself a force of production and a technology; it is, Müller wrote, “an aggregate, a machine, onto which other new machines can always be coupled.” Both myths of labor and myth as labor converge...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 21–31.
Published: 01 August 2016
... scientific and technological. In the process, controversies have emerged around the concept of the Anthropocene, whose emphasis on the planetary agency of the human species conflicts with Marxist analyses of socioeconomic inequality and with posthumanist approaches that question the exceptionality...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 59–89.
Published: 01 February 2016
..., as he promoted cinematic physiognomics as a way to overcome boundaries of race and nation. Furthermore, Balázs and Benjamin used physiognomic perception to reconfigure social hierarchies and the relationship of spectators to technology and the material world, thus converting potentially reactionary...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 35–45.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Tom Gunning Relating Sigmund Freud's essay “Mourning and Melancholia” and Walter Benjamin's work on the Trauerspiel as well as his discussion of cinema in “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility,” Gunning discusses the idea of testing as part of cinema's relation...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (2 (125)): 115–135.
Published: 01 August 2015
... by Christian Boltanski, Shimon Attie, Arwed Messmer, and Lars Ramberg interrogate the dynamics of urban memory, viewing acts of memory as technologies in themselves. These works undermine “touristic itineraries” predicated on conventional engagements with urban space and time, enabling an encounter...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 79–109.
Published: 01 February 2018
... for the psychological state of immediacy that he recognized as a mark of modernity. While Wölfflin believed that such technologies as photography and film exacerbated this condition, he ultimately resorted to them as he developed pedagogical techniques that remain central to the discipline of art history. Copyright ©...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 167–196.
Published: 01 February 2019
... in a prototypical technological milieu. The article compares Kracauer’s position to Jünger’s on the prospect of an impersonal, transcendent “Beyond,” examines how each thinker diagnoses the deficiencies of the historical present, and shows how Jünger and Kracauer make allied use of modernist writing as a practice...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 197–228.
Published: 01 February 2019
...) ideologies and “spiritualized” visions of an organic social order. UHU’ s sunbathers and expressive dancers embodied the dynamic tensions of the new technological society—tensions that would resolve, with drastic consequences, in the following decade. Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 125–155.
Published: 01 November 2019
... technological processes. It looks at architecture as an organizing element in relation to Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher’s nomadic typologies and the pneumatic architecture of the 1960s and 1970s, with special attention to the films Unser täglich Brot ( Our Daily Bread , 2005), Abendland ( Occident , 2011...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 11–39.
Published: 01 February 2022
... make a false assumption about intelligence or consciousness. This article argues that Blumenberg’s brush with digital systems is crucial in updating our own critique of AI as it proliferates in a new, dynamic form today. Drawing on and shifting the account of technology in the phenomenological...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 163–174.
Published: 01 November 2023
... “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility” was enthusiastically rediscovered in the 1960s, this was by no means the case. Video artists of the first generation had to fight for recognition, and Benjamin’s writings matched their goals. This essay gets to the basis of the connection...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 3–6.
Published: 01 August 2014
... reflect, and reflect on, a confronta- tion with cinema. But are there any moments or aspects in these texts that correspond to the present situation? Are there any thoughts that regain their actuality in the encounter with digital technology? To be sure, this was not simply an exercise...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 171–188.
Published: 01 August 2014
... the Marxist realist (reflection) and modernist formalist (self-reflexivity). This reflexivity engages media technologies—the mimetic “mirrors”—to constitute modern subjecthood through “seeing with an added eye” (MP, 69) and experiencing with the bodily reflexes. More important, Hansen does not limit...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 39–72.
Published: 01 November 2018
... The idea is repeated in material related to the second version and the French translation of Benjamin’s “Work of Art” essay from 1935–36 but expunged—along with the context of first and second technology through which it is explained—from the final version written in the late 1930s. 2 The significance...