Log in
Search
Contact
Imprint
Browse
Search
of 2
1–24 of 30
Per page
Results by 10
Results by 24
Results by 50
Results by 100
Sort by
Date ↓
Date ↑
Title ↑
Title ↓
number Desc
number Asc
list
|
grid
30 items
Just Published
Book
Displacing Theory Through the Global South
Ed. by Iracema Dulley and Özgün Eylül İşcen
Displacing Theory Through the Global South
calls for reflection on the historical and geopolitical inequalities that have shaped theorization. It asserts that what appears ‘universal’ often involves generalizations that flatten the particular. Critiquing the colonialist, imperialist, and Eurocentric perspectives that have historically impacted theorization in general and, more specifically, knowledge production about the so-called Global South, this volume seeks a different form of engagement that moves beyond such strictures. Featuring essays that unsettle distinctions between the general and the particular, it proposes a commitment to expanding notions of universality, making theorization not only relevant and generative, but ultimately, transformative.
2024 | Cultural Inquiry, 29. Global South; geopolitics; postcolonialism; Eurocentrisim; knowledge production; decolonization; Germany; intersectionality; positionality; multiplicity; periphery
Book
Analays Alvarez Hernandez
Climbing Aboard: Havana Apartment-Galleries and International Art Circuits
Havana’s apartment-galleries have been vital venues for the city’s art scene since the 1990s, hosting art exhibitions, workshops, and conferences. In the context of Cuba’s limited art market and dearth of cultural institutions with international reach, these residential spaces have offered artists a unique opportunity to display their work and to connect with international art circuits. Focusing on the histories of three specific apartment-galleries — El Apartamento, Estudio Figueroa-Vives, and Avecez Art Space — this chapbook reflects on the complex interplay of the local and the global in the ‘worlding’ of cultural institutions.
2023 | Worlding Public Cultures. Apartment-Galleries; Havana; Cuban Art; Exhibitions; Alternative Gallery Models; Contemporary Art; Art Market; Geo-Aesthetics; Worlding
Book
Elena Lombardi
Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories
Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories
presents a unique form of creative scholarship. It employs Dante’s late medieval take on Ulysses and his tragic pursuit of ‘virtue and knowledge’ as a prism that refracts an ancient myth of journey and return into a modern story of discovery and nostalgia. Working notes, fragments from Ulysses’ many stories, personal memories, illuminations, and rewritings combine to form a new chain of narratives about the desire to create, the art of travelling, and the will of self-reinvention.
2023 | Cultural Inquiry, 28. Ulysses; Alighieri Dante; Medieval studies; Theory of knowledge; Myth; Voyage of discovery; Memory; Fragment, literary criticism
Book
War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments: Reflections from the Middle East
Ed. by Umut Yıldırım
War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments: Reflections from the Middle East
identifies a conceptual intersection between war, affect, and ecology from the Middle East. It creates a counter archive of texts by ethnographers and artists, and enables divergent worlds to share a conversation through the crevices of mass violence across species. Delving into vital encounters with mulberry trees, wild medicinal plants, jinns, and goats, as well as bleaker experiences with toxic war materials like landmines, this volume expands an ecological sensorium that works through displacement, memory, endurance, and praxis.
2023 | Cultural Inquiry, 27. war; affect; ecology; middle east; archive; displacement; fragment; art; resistance; popular belief; affective ecology
Book
Untying the Mother Tongue
Ed. by Antonio Castore and Federico Dal Bo
Untying the Mother Tongue
explores what it might mean today to speak of someone's attachment to a particular, primary language. Traditional conceptions of mother tongue are often seen as an expression of the ideology of a European nation-state. Yet, current celebrations of multilingualism reflect the recent demands of global capitalism, raising other challenges. The contributions from international scholars on literature, philosophy, and culture, analyze and problematize the concept of ‘mother tongue’, rethinking affective and cognitive attachments to language while deconstructing its metaphysical, capitalist, and colonialist presuppositions.
2023 | Cultural Inquiry, 26. mother tongue; language acquisition; linguistics; literary criticism; multilingualism; affect; resistance; philosophy; Jacques Derrida
Book
Franziska Koch
Worlding Love, Gender, and Care: Shigeko Kubota’s
Sexual Healing
Shigeko Kubota’s pioneering video
Sexual Healing
(1998) presents an ambivalent take on her disabled husband Nam June Paik in physical therapy. Accompanied by Marvin Gaye’s titular pop song, it considers love, sex, and care in old age within the much-debated field of Fluxus collaborations, and its ideal of working together as equals when fusing life and art.
Worlding Love, Gender, and Care
delves into the four decades of Kubota and Paik’s time together, reflects on feminist worlding, and investigates the vital contribution of female Fluxus artists to art history.
2023 | Worlding Public Cultures. Shigeko Kubota; Fluxus; video art; artistic collaboration; Nam June Paik; feminism; gender; worlding
Book
David Kishik
Self Study: Notes on the Schizoid Condition
Self Study
is a genre-bending work of autophilosophy. It opens a rare, rear window into the schizoid position of self-sufficient withdrawal and impassive indifference. This inability to be enriched by outer experiences feeds the relentless suspicion that hell is other people. Laying bare his life and work, Kishik engages with psychoanalysis, philosophy, and cultural inquiry to trace loneliness across the history of thought, leading to today’s shut-in society and the autonomous subject of liberal capitalism.
2023. autophilosophy; autofiction; philosophy; psychoanalysis; object relations theory; schizoid personality disorder; the self; identity
Book
Carine Zaayman
Anarchival Practices: The Clanwilliam Arts Project as Re-imagining Custodianship of the Past
Where is the past? It is not really behind us, but with us, constantly imagined and re-imagined in public discourse through historical narrations. Using the Clanwilliam Arts Project as a case study, this volume is founded on the ‘anarchive’, a conceptual constellation that positions the past in relation to the present, bringing into view strategies to facilitate remembering beyond the colonial archive.
2023 | Worlding Public Cultures. Archive; Anarchive; Community; Oral History; Decolonization; Collective Memory; Clanwilliams Art Project; Performance
Book
The Case for Reduction
Ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger
Critical discourse hardly knows a more devastating charge against theories, technologies, or structures than that of being reductive. Yet, expansion and growth cannot fare any better today. This volume suspends anti-reductionist reflexes to focus on the experiences and practices of different kinds of reduction, their generative potentials, ethics, and politics. Can their violences be contained and their benefits transported to other contexts?
2022 | Cultural Inquiry, 25. Reductionism; Complexity; History of knowledge; Case; Lists; Generalization; Singularity; Interdisciplinary research; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge; Cultural studies; Psychoanalysis; Structuralism; Phenomenology
Book
Errans: Going Astray, Being Adrift, Coming to Nothing
Ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer
Today’s critical discourses and theorizing vanguards agree on the importance of getting lost, of failure, of erring — as do life coaches and business gurus. The taste for a departure from progress and other teleologies, the fascination with disorder, unfocused modes of attention, or improvisational performances cut across wide swaths of scholarly and activist discourses, practices in the arts, but also in business, warfare, and politics. Yet often the laudible failures are only those that are redeemed by subsequent successes. What could it mean to think errancy beyond such restrictions? And what would a radical critique of productivity, success, and fixed determination look like that doesn’t collapse into the infamous ‘I would prefer not to’? This volume looks for an answer in the complicated word field branching and stretching from the Latin errāre. Its contributions explore the implications of embracing error, randomness, failure, non-teleological temporalities across different disciplines, discourses, and practices, with critical attention to the ambivalences such an impossible embrace generates.
2022 | Cultural Inquiry, 24. Error; Errancy; Fallability; Laughter; Fragmentation (Philosophy) in literature; Austerity; Photography--Philosophy; Imperfection; Failure (Psychology) in art; radical indifference; Counterpublic; Weak resistance; Jewish diaspora
Book
Openness in Medieval Europe
Ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum
This volume challenges the persistent association of the Middle Ages with closure and fixity. Bringing together a range of disciplines and perspectives, it identifies and uncovers forms of openness which are often obscured by modern assumptions, and demonstrates how they coexist with, or even depend upon, enclosure and containment in paradoxical and unexpected ways. Explored through notions such as porosity, vulnerability, exposure, unfinishedness, and inclusivity, openness turns out to permeate medieval culture, unsettling boundaries, binaries, and clear-cut distinctions.
2022 | Cultural Inquiry, 23. cultural inquiry; medieval culture; openness; porosity; vulnerability; subjectivity; textuality; community; enclosure; containment
Book
Over and Over and Over Again: Reenactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory
Ed. by Cristina Baldacci, Clio Nicastro, and Arianna Sforzini
Over the last twenty years, reenactment has been appropriated by both contemporary artistic production and art-theoretical discourse, becoming a distinctive strategy to engage with history and memory. As a critical act of repetition, which is never neutral in reactualizing the past, it has established unconventional modes of historicization and narration. Collecting work by artists, scholars, curators, and museum administrators, the volume investigates reenactment's potential for a (re)activation of layered temporal experiences, and its value as an ongoing interpretative and political gesture performed in the present with an eye to the future. Its contributions discuss the mobilization of archives in the struggle for inclusiveness and cultural revisionism; the role of the body in the presentification and rehabilitation of past events and (impermanent) objects; the question of authenticity and originality in artistic practice, art history, as well as in museum collections and conservation practices.
2022 | Cultural Inquiry, 21. cultural inquiry; reenactment; contemporary art; art theory; archive; museum
Book
Queeres Kino / Queere Ästhetiken als Dokumentationen des Prekären
Ed. by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky and Philipp Hanke
Wenn queeres Kino und queere Ästhetiken das Prekäre dokumentieren, dann intendiert dies auch eine Revolution im Symbolischen. Oder anders formuliert: ihr ästhetisches Unterfangen, Rahmungen zum Vorschein zu bringen, ohne sie zu wiederholen, erweist sich, wie die hier versammelten Beiträge namhafter Film-, Medien- und Queertheoretiker*innen zeigen, als prekäre Form der Dokumentation. Die Beiträge bieten dabei zugleich einen Einblick in den gegenwärtigen Stand des queeren Kinos – seiner Filme, Videos und visuellen Installationen.
2021 | Cultural Inquiry, 22. Queere Ästhetik; Prekarität
Book
The Work of World Literature
Ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson
The contentious discourse around world literature tends to stress the ‘world’ in the phrase. This volume, in contrast, asks what it means to approach world literature by inflecting the question of the literary. Debates for, against, and around ‘world literature’ have brought renewed attention to the worldly aspects of the literary enterprise. Literature is studied with regard to its sociopolitical and cultural references, contexts and conditions of production, circulation, distribution, and translation. But what becomes of the literary when one speaks of world literature? Responding to Derek Attridge’s theory of how literature ‘works’, the contributions in this volume explore in diverse ways and with attention to a variety of literary practices what it might mean to speak of ‘the work of world literature’. The volume shows how attention to literariness complicates the ethical and political conundrums at the centre of debates about world literature.
2021 | Cultural Inquiry, 19. world literature
Book
Materialism and Politics
Ed. by Bernardo Bianchi, Emilie Filion-Donato, Marlon Miguel, and Ayşe Yuva
Is materialism still relevant to critically think politics? Throughout modernity, the concept of materialism was associated with fatalism and naturalism, when it was not simply dismissed as heresy and atheism. In the nineteenth century, materialism evolved into a central concept of progressive politics, reappearing again in the past decades through renewed Marxist and Spinoza-based approaches, New Materialism, and feminist discourses. This volume inquires these contrasting uses from theoretical and historical perspectives.
2021 | Cultural Inquiry, 20. cultural inquiry; materialism; politics
Book
Manuele Gragnolati and Francesca Southerden
Possibilities of Lyric: Reading Petrarch in Dialogue
Opening to passion as an unsettling, transformative force; extending desire to the text, expanding the self, and dissolving its boundaries; imagining pleasures outside the norm and intensifying them; overcoming loss and reaching beyond death; being loyal to oneself and defying productivity, resolution, and cohesion while embracing paradox, non-linearity, incompletion. These are some of the possibilities of lyric that this book explores by reading Petrarch’s vernacular poetry in dialogue with that of other poets, including Guido Cavalcanti, Dante, and Shakespeare. In the Epilogue, the poet Antonella Anedda Angioy engages with Ossip Mandel’štam and Paul Celan’s dialogue with Petrarch and extends it into the present.
2020 | Cultural Inquiry, 18. lyric poetry; desire; pleasure; affect; Petrarch, Francesco; Dante Alighieri; Shakespeare, William; Mandelstam, Osip
Book
Claude Lefort
Dante’s Modernity: An Introduction to the
Monarchia
Ed. by Christiane Frey, Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey, and Arnd Wedemeyer
One of the most prominent political philosophers of the twentieth century reads Dante’s
Monarchia
, showing the surprising relevance of this radical fourteenth-century treatise that defends the necessity of universal monarchy and its independence from the Church for modern political theory. Judith Revel’s accompanying essay submits Lefort’s encounter with Dante to a transformative mis/reading and ties it to current debates on the question of the common.
2020 | Cultural Inquiry, 16. Alighieri, Dante – Monarchia; Lefort, Claude; political theory; modernity
Book
Aura und Experiment: Naturwissenschaft und Technik bei Walter Benjamin
Ed. by Kyung-Ho Cha
Walter Benjamin forderte, die »undialektische Trennung zu überprüfen, die man zwischen Natur- und Geisteswissenschaft zu etablieren suchte«. Die Beiträge des Sammelbands widmen sich einerseits Benjamins Beschäftigung mit den Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, und erproben andererseits neue Wege in der Wissens- und Wissenschaftsforschung, die zeigen, wie seine Begriffe und Modelle für die historische und theoretische Analyse der Technik und der Wissenschaften fruchtbar gemacht werden können.
2020 | Cultural Inquiry, 13. Benjamin, Walter; Dialektik; Geisteswissenschaften; Historismus; Naturwissenschaften; Technik
Book
Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure
Ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer
Weathering is atmospheric, geological, temporal, transformative. It implies exposure to the elements and processes of wearing down, disintegration, or accrued patina. Weathering can also denote the ways in which subjects and objects resist and pass through storms and adversity. This volume contemplates weathering across many fields and disciplines; its contributions examine various surfaces, environments, scales, temporalities, and vulnerabilities. What does it mean to weather or withstand? Who or what is able to pass through safely? What is lost or gained in the process?
2020 | Cultural Inquiry, 17. cultural inquiry; critical theory; weathering; ecology; exposure
Book
Re-: An Errant Glossary
Ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer
What’s in a prefix? How to read a prefix as short as ‘re-’? Does ‘re-’ really signify? Can it point into a specific direction? Can it reverse? Can it become the shibboleth of a ‘postcritical’ reboot? At first glance transparent and directional, ‘re-’ complicates the linear and teleological models commonly accepted as structuring the relations between past, present, and future, opening onto errant temporalities.
2019 | Cultural Inquiry, 15. cultural inquiry, critical theory, temporality, prefix
Book
Conatus und Lebensnot: Schlüsselbegriffe der Medienanthropologie
Ed. by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky and Anna Tuschling
Als bewegende Bedingungen des Lebens stehen Conatus und Lebensnot im Zentrum aktueller medienanthropologischer Diskussionen über das Verhältnis von Leben und Medien. Spinoza definierte Conatus als Prinzip, nach dem das Wesen jedes Dings darin besteht, »in seinem Sein zu verharren«. Er begründete mit diesem Prinzip eine Denktradition, in der Leben und Materie, Rationalität und Vermögen koinzidieren. Der Begriff der Lebensnot dagegen entstammt Diskursen der Physiologie, der Medizin, der Urteilsphilosophie und schließlich der Psychoanalyse, die auf verschiedene Weise körperliche Bedingungen und Notwendigkeiten mit der Angewiesenheit auf das Andere und die Anderen verschränken. Conatus und Lebensnot erlauben in besonderer Weise zu situieren, warum und wie sich das Fragen nach dem Menschlichsein in Diskursen über Medientechnik immer wieder aktualisiert und dabei zugleich verändert.
2017 | Cultural Inquiry, 12. Conatus; Lebensnot; Medienanthropologie; Medienwissenschaft; Mensch / Technik; Mensch / Tiere; Spinoza, Benedictus de - Ethik
Book
Denkweisen des Spiels: Medienphilosophische Annäherungen
Ed. by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky and Reinhold Görling
Gibt es eine spezifische Medialität des Spiels, die es sinnvoll macht, das Verhältnis jeden Ereignisses zu seiner Umgebung als Spiel zu beschreiben? In welcher Weise können Technik, Spiel und Ästhetik neu gedacht werden? Immer dann, wenn Technik mit mechanischen Bewegungen verbunden wird, sehen wir sie im Gegensatz zum Spiel. Wenn Technik jedoch mit Ästhetik assoziiert wird, taucht das Spiel als Teil der Technik auf. Spiel bringt Dinge in Relation und verändert sie dadurch. Wenn Materie als rhythmische Bewegung gedacht wird und Spiel auf Wiederholung basiert, rückt der Spielbegriff ins Zentrum einer medienwissenschaftlichen Auslegung der relationalen Beschaffenheit von Zeit und Raum. Vor dem Hintergrund der Aktualität, welche die Spieletheorien von Huizinga und Caillois in den Game Studies erlangten, unternimmt der vorliegende Band eine medienphilosophische Befragung des Spielbegriffs. Er behandelt dabei das Spiel unter Bezugnahme auf Fragen der Neuen Materialismen und wirft zugleich einen neuen Blick auf das Spiel in der Psychoanalyse.
2017 | Cultural Inquiry, 10. Ästhetik; Mechanik; Medialität; Medienphilosophie; Medienwissenschaft; Spiel
; Spieltheorie
Book
De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts
Ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati
How can the power of wholes be resisted without essentializing their parts? Drawing on different archives and methodologies, including aesthetics, history, biology, affect, race, and queer, the interventions in this volume explore different ways of troubling the consistency and stability of wholes, breaking up their closure and making them more dynamic. Doing so without necessarily presupposing or producing parts, an outside, or a teleological development, they indicate the critical potential of partiality without parts.
2017 | Cultural Inquiry, 11. Wholeness; Partiality; Haunting; Plasticity; Totality (Philosophy); Malabou, Catherine
Book
Multistable Figures: On the Critical Potential of Ir/Reversible Aspect-Seeing
Ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Multistable figures offer an intriguing model for arbitrating conflicting positions. Moving back and forth between the different aspects under which something can be seen, one recognizes that mutually contradictory descriptions can be equally valid and that disputes over the correct account can be resolved without dissolving differences or establishing a higher synthesis. Yet, the experience of a gestalt switch also offers a model for radical conversions and revolutions – that is, for irreversible leaps to incommensurable alternatives foiling ideals of rational choice while providing the possibility and necessity of decision. Accentuating the temporal dimensions of multistable figures, this multidisciplinary volume illuminates the critical potentials and limits of multistability as a complex figure of thought.
2014 | Cultural Inquiry, 8. Aesthetics; aspect seeing; critical thinking; figure of thought; heuristic; knowledge, theory of: multistable figures; multistability; science