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Boris Groys / Vittorio Hösle: Die Vernunft an die Macht. Ein Streitgespräch.
Hg. von Luca Di Blasi / Marc Jongen. Wien/Berlin: Turia+Kant, 2011
Mit dem Kommunismus ist ein politisches Modell gescheitert, das konsequent auf die vernünftige Planung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft setzte. Die...
Phantasmata: Techniken des Unheimlichen.
Eds. Camilletti, Doll, Gaderer, Howe. Wien/Berlin: Turia+Kant, 2011
Nach mehr als neunzig Jahren spukt das »Unheimliche« noch immer. Quer über verschiedene wissenschaftliche Disziplinen gehört es zu den schillerndsten...
Metamorphosing Dante: Appropriations, Manipulations, and Rewritings in the....
Eds. Gragnolati, Camilletti, Lampart. Wien/Berlin: Turia+Kant, 2011
After almost seven centuries, Dante endures and even seems to haunt the present. Metamorphosing Dante explores what so many authors, artists and...
Tension/Spannung.
Ed. Christoph F.E. Holzhey. Wien/Berlin: Turia+Kant, 2010
Tension appears in many contexts and carries diverse meanings. It tends to be viewed as something to be avoided and reduced in politics; to be...
Elizabeth Povinelli: New Media/Other Worlds?.
From Raymond Williams’ often neglected Television, to Lisa Gitelman’s more recent Always Already New, media scholars have sought to understand the...
Antonio Negri: Su Petrolio di Pier Paolo Pasolini .
Seguita da una discussione con Francesca Cadel e Manuele Gragnolati
Antiromanzo e meditazione sulla possibilità stessa della scrittura e della letteratura; denuncia scandalosa e profetica della corruzione della...
Utopia: Wreckage.
Every historical attempt to construct society after an Idea teaches: where utopia is, there wreckage will come into being. So we have been told,...
Fatima Naqvi: Ties that Bind.
Michael Haneke’s Black Pedagogy in The White Ribbon
Michael Haneke’s award-winning film 'The White Ribbon' (2009) has generated controversy about the way in which it presents emergent fascism....
Dante's Plurilingualism: Authority, Knowledge, Subjectivity.
Eds. S. Fortuna, M. Gragnolati, J. Trabant. Oxford: Legenda, 2010
Dante's conception of language is encompassed in all his works and can be understood in terms of a strenuous defence of the volgare in tension with...
Hauntings I: Narrating the Uncanny.
Eds. F. Camilletti, M. Doll, R. Gaderer, J.N. Howe, C. Smale. Image &...
Thematic Cluster of the online journal Image & Narrative, Vol 11, No 3 (2010).
Though first explored by Ernst Jentsch in his 1906 essay "On the...
Kritik des Okzidentalismus: Transdisziplinäre Beiträge zu (Neo-) Orientalismus....
Eds. Gabriele Dietze, Claudia Brunner, Edith Wenzel. Bielefeld: Transcript,...
Unter »Okzidentalismus« wird hier ein Diskurs abendländischer Hegemonieproduktion verstanden, der ein »orientalisiertes« Anderes in der muslimischen...
The Power of Disturbance: Elsa Morante's Aracoeli.
Eds. Manuele Gragnolati and Sara Fortuna. Oxford: Legenda, 2009
Aracoeli (1982) was the last novel written by Elsa Morante (1912-85), one of the most significant Italian writers of the twentieth century. The...
Fear in Search of a Reason.
by Giovanni Frazzetto and Sommer Ulrickson
Fear in Search of a Reason is a performance experiment, in collaboration with theatre director and choreographer Sommer Ulrickson, on the...
Yesterday, Tomorrow.
“Yesterday, Tomorrow” is based on Nuruddin Farah's book, "Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora". It is a portrayal of the personal...
The Most Unsatisfied Town II.
A new play by Amy Evans
On January 7, 2005, Oury Jalloh, a man who had come to Germany seeking asylum, burned to death while shackled to the floor of a Dessau jail cell....
Amy Evans: The Most Unsatisfied Town.
"In these fights, the winner is determined from the start. It’s not a boxing match with a surprise finish, the underdog toppling the champion. Try to...
