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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 119–140.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Isabel Capeloa Gil Literary communication faces challenges when addressing torture, an unmediated and untranslatable event that antagonizes representation. Given the radical difference between the act of reading torture and the experience thereof, the representation of the event is never mastered...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 137–165.
Published: 01 August 2013
...James A. Van Dyke This article examines the exiled German artist George Grosz's Interregnum , a print portfolio published in New York in 1936, in particular Grosz's depiction of the interrogation and torture of political prisoners such as Erich Mühsam in the concentration camps established after...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 205–216.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Roberto Simanowski Self-presentation on social network sites is often discussed either positively for its promotion of transparency and sharing or negatively for its encouragement of narcissism and self-branding. The present article takes into account the “torture of now-time,” that is, the horror...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 1–20.
Published: 01 August 2020
... in Belgium, was captured in 1943, tortured, and—being Jewish—sent to Auschwitz, where he was forced to work in extremely harsh conditions. He miraculously survived, and his 1966 book of essays Jenseits von Schuld und Sühne ( Beyond Guilt and Atonement ) became a landmark document for thinking about...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 155–178.
Published: 01 February 2023
... of violence and the constitution of the self. This article therefore also looks at Améry’s writings on violence and the thought of Frantz Fanon (1925–61). What does Améry—an Austrian Jew born as Hans Mayer, who survived torture by the Gestapo and the horrors of Auschwitz—have to do with the Martinican...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 87–100.
Published: 01 November 2007
... because he does not know the song well, the offi cer keeps time to the
music by bashing the priest’s skull in with a poker. Despite the elliptical por-
trayal that only hints at the brutality, the scene lodges fi rmly in the mind.6
The sadistic tormentors think up special tortures for the imprisoned...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 171–189.
Published: 01 August 2008
... conservative political camp. The
mythology that Schreber writes welcomes Jewishness because it signifi es per-
sonal difference, not ethnic difference. He is not a more tolerant person now
than he was before his nervous illness.
Michel de has Certeau studied the Memoirs in relation to torture.14...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 167–184.
Published: 01 August 2013
.... Under the sun of torture, which shines equally on all the continents of
13. Quoted in Hauschild, Heiner Müller, 500.
14. “Ich glaube an Konflikt. Sonst glaube ich an nichts.” Heiner Müller, interviewed by Sylvère
Lotringer, in Gesammelte Irrtümer: Interviews und Gespräche (Frankfurt am...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 57–73.
Published: 01 November 2014
... to as “the superimposed
ages of Auschwitz.”1
This method was aesthetically radicalized in Marguerite Duras’s 1979
filmAurélia Steiner.2 The fictional memories and reflections of Aurélia Steiner,
a Jew who was born in a concentration camp, whose mother died there and
whose father was tortured to death...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 73–118.
Published: 01 February 2006
... own absence” (Leben ist zur Ideologie seiner eigenen Absenz geworden)
(MM, 190; 252). Meanwhile, the old Aristotelian value of art’s favoring the
probable impossible over the improbable possible hums in sad resignation or
in perverse, tortured form beneath Adorno’s hint—certainly anticipating...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 27–49.
Published: 01 February 2008
... against Nero, the conspirators are protected by
the silence of a lowborn woman named Epicharis. Circumspect and savvy,
she sought to enlist her lover, Proculus, but withheld the names of the con-
spirators. When she was tortured at Nero’s command, she maintained her
silence to the point of death...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 151–170.
Published: 01 August 2019
... believes in the possibility of finding access to “truth” through experienced pain: “to torture oneself . . . to force oneself to honesty.” 53 In a similar vein, Abramović discusses pain “as [a] mental leap to enter different dimensions of existence.” 54 Thereby a state of total presence should...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 99–139.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of Jean Améry ( A , 34/42), an Austrian-born writer and survivor of Auschwitz, who was interned and tortured in Breendonk and later, like Paul Celan, scrambled the letters of his patronym, Mayer, into a logogriph that connotes the French amer , or “bitter.” 28 Interruption, obliqueness, and distancing...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 3–26.
Published: 01 February 2012
... architecture and siege craft, the narrator travels to Breen-
donk, a chain of fortresses to the southwest of Antwerp, which was built in
1906 and used as a German prison and transit camp between 1940 and 1944.
Here he recalls Jean Améry’s account of his arrest and torture at the hands of
the Belgian...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 33–53.
Published: 01 August 2008
... that cannot be redemp-
tively reconstructed as a form of life; after Auschwitz, all attempts to grant
history any kind of narrative sense amount to an “outrage” of anachronistic
self-indulgence (ND, 365). Adorno concedes that we have the same “right” to
poetry that a tortured man has to screaming...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 145–164.
Published: 01 February 2008
...” (RM, 28). Brainwashing, in
other words, was both the sign and the engine of an epistemological crisis. Or
as Charles Mayo, of the Mayo Clinic, testifi ed to the United Nations in 1953,
new forms of torture could make a man the “seemingly willing accomplice to
the complete disintegration of his...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 135–157.
Published: 01 November 2014
... more intimate images of a “ritual Jewish bath” (amikveh ),
yet another filmed compulsory performance. The cameraman confirms details
of the torturous conditions under which these images were made, and the
wording in Chaim Kaplan’s diary conveys the brutality:
This week they have invented...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 155–164.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of
weeks prior to the suicide a close friend of Borowski who had been arrested
and beaten by the Gestapo was now being tortured by the Polish Security.
Borowski tried to intercede on his friend’s behalf but was told that the people’s
justice is never mistaken. The third thread is that Borowski had...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 141–163.
Published: 01 November 2021
... parties. The examples are not exclusively German: his manual also concerns itself with European educational reforms (the “Bologna sauce”) that have turned seminar rooms into huge bedrooms ( DfA , 53), with torture in American prisons (“Do they use democratically elected torture devices there?” [ DfA , 41...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 193–204.
Published: 01 November 2023
...-shifting political entity called Germany. Germany has been cursed with a particularly torturous constitutional history, beginning with the old Reich that the great jurist Samuel Pufendorf famously dubbed “an Irregular Body,” even “some mis-shapen Monster,” 26 going through the nationalist fervors...
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