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Abstract This paper explores the role and impact of the official Soviet hygiene propaganda during the first three decades after the October Revolution, taking as an example theatrical performances about infectious diseases. In the Bolshevik Great Experiment of the 1920s–30s, the creation of a “Soviet body” optimized according to aesthetic and medical ...
Igor J. Polianski +2 more
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Abstract The article focuses on specific forms, characters and types of ‘primary rejection’ or refusal that emerged in German subculture and deviant counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s, rejecting the cultural norms of mainstream society. Beginning with socially distinctive figures such as the layabout and the commune‐dweller, the article examines ...
Sara Bangert
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La verdad de las cosas pasadas. Notas sobre la noción de fantasmagoría
El presente trabajo examina el carácter «dialéctico» de la noción de fantasmagoría, que Walter Benjamin empleó como piedra de toque de la peculiar crítica de la ideología realizada en el Passagen-Werk.
José Luis Delgado Rojo
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Baudelaire Laboratory. Brief History of a Project by Walter Benjamin
The article intends to retrace, from a historical-philological point of view, the main steps of Walter Benjamin’s unfinished research and works, conducted during his later years, dedicated to Charles Baudelaire.
Marina Montanelli
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Abstract The paper reconstructs the tension between the then emerging approach of emphasising authorial innovation and the traditional learned practice of adapting and reusing existing texts, which was cultivated in the early modern ars excerpendi. In 1717, a case of plagiarism occurred in the midst of a new historiographical genre (Reichshistorie) and
Daniel Fulda
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Benjamin and Koolhaas: History's Afterlife
Dialectical images are at the core of the methods suggested by two books written four decades apart yet published around the same time. The Arcades Project (first published as Das Passagen-Werk in 1981) and Delirious New York (1978) use images to ...
Frances Hsu
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El objetivo de este artículo es ahondar en la reflexión filosófica de Walter Benjamin sobre el coleccionismo, detallando al mismo tiempo su íntimo vínculo con la particular noción de materialismo histórico desarrollada por el autor del Passagen-Werk ...
Andrés Maximiliano Tello
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Trata-se de mostrar a originalidade crítica de Siegfried Kracauer diante da experiência da modernidade estética e de discutir as afinidades estético-teóricas de Kracauer e Benjamim ao analisar a Paris da segunda metade do século XIX, o Segundo Império ...
Carlos Eduardo Jordão Machado
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DAS HANDWERK DES ERZÄHLENS. POETOLOGISCHE ENTWÜRFE IN UWE TIMMS ALLE MEINE GEISTER
Abstract Uwe Timm's autobiographical story Alle meine Geister, published in 2023, describes how Timm became an author. The story unfolds through explicit and implicit reflections on the nature and art of oral and written storytelling, against the backdrop of the author's apprenticeship and self‐employment as a furrier in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Christoph Seifener
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Rafik Schami und die Migration aus dem Mittelmeerraum. Die Wortergreifung der Figur des Migranten
Abstract Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht Rafik Schamis Migrationsromane Die Sehnsucht der Schwalbe (2000) und Sami und der Wunsch nach Freiheit (2017) im Kontext der bundesdeutschen Migrationspolitik nach 1990. Es wird gezeigt, wie Schami sich in diesen Werken mit zeitgenössischen migrationspolitischen Diskursen und gängigen Vorurteilen gegenüber ...
Benoît Ellerbach
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