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Music, the Avant-Garde, and Counterculture: Invisible Republics, 2025
Swiss-Icelandic artist Dieter Roth is largely celebrated as a visual artist who redefined the boo... more Swiss-Icelandic artist Dieter Roth is largely celebrated as a visual artist who redefined the book as an art-object. While many of his artist’s books present typographical experiments and collaged language material, investigations rarely include close readings. This chapter highlights his poem “Some Variations on 4”—both as a single unit and part of the larger work in which it exists—and argues that, despite its non-linguistic composition and graphic design appearance, the work visually articulates rhetorical elements central to lyrical poetry. Aesthetic response theory is useful for interpreting the visual iconicity of concrete poetry. Drawing on Iser’s concept of “gestalt” as an organized whole that emerges through the process of reading, Roth’s aesthetic object reveals both a conceptual whole and an unexpected readability. Although Roth has created a categorically concrete and therefore almost unutterable work of poetry, it is capable of engaging in a discourse on any aspect of the verbivocovisual.
Dieter Roth: Zum literarischen Werk des Künstlerdichters, 2021
Heute wird Dieter Roth vor allem als bildender Künstler gefeiert, der das Buch als Kunstobjekt ne... more Heute wird Dieter Roth vor allem als bildender Künstler gefeiert, der das Buch als Kunstobjekt neu bestimmt habe. Viele seiner Bücher sind unbeschrieben oder bieten typografische Experimente und collagiertes Sprachmaterial; sie sind bisher allerdings selten, wenn überhaupt, einem close reading unterzogen worden. In diesem Artikel nehme ich drei Frühwerke Roths genauer unter die Lupe, die, so meine These, ungeachtet ihres nicht-semantischen, manchmal nicht-sprachlichen Gehalts und ihres rein grafischen Erscheinungsbildes rhetorische Elemente visuell artikulieren, wie sie für die Lyrik typisch sind. Ich möchte zeigen, dass sich diese Werke, obwohl Roth sie als grundsätzlich konkrete und deshalb unaussprechliche oder nicht laut artikulierbare literarische Werke konzipiert hat, immer noch im Bereich des verbi-voco-visual bewegen, ihnen also ein starker Zusammenhang zwischen Sprache, Bild und Klang eignet.
Papers by Maggie Rosenau
Feminist German Studies, 2024
Smiling, enthusiasm, attentive presentness, eagerness to be part of initiatives, and other optimi... more Smiling, enthusiasm, attentive presentness, eagerness to be part of initiatives, and other optimism-oriented behaviors have long been the hallmark of pedagogical practices in higher education. Showing up in a “good mood” and with a “glass half full” attitude casts both instructor and student as collegial interlocutors and admirable members of a classroom community. Conversely, affective relations that deviate from optimism are a liability to the operations of the course. Feeling unwell threatens optimism-conditioned classroom relations, and unwellness becomes a burden to be managed. Those of us living with depression, trauma, and related experiences resulting from the erosion of the body-mind under neoliberalism consequently feel out of place in optimism-oriented educational settings. But unwellness can also be a resource to understand the effects of harmful structures on our bodyminds. It can be a site at which we can generate critical knowledge about the institution and thereby forge relations that help us survive in it.
Feminist Formations, 2022
This article examines how resistance toward capitalism's temporal bullying is performed in contem... more This article examines how resistance toward capitalism's temporal bullying is performed in contemporary art and activism. It addresses the relationship between creativity, institutions, and empowerment. Building on the conceptual work of Croatian artist Mladen Stilinović (1947–2016), the article explores several aesthetic presentations of resistive temporalities we identify as non-production. The case studies of non-production herein marshaled affirm a performance of resistance that centers discussion of radicality in self-consciously interdependent care networks, ostensibly available to all disabled and nondisabled individuals. This care ethic claps back at the idea of self-optimization and fiduciary endurance amidst economic regimes of exploitation as virtuous. In the place of 'wellness,' this article affirms new directions in care and mutual aid, as premised on queer, crip, and feminist portrayals of disability praxis and pedagogy.
Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, 2020
Concern regarding linguistic nationalism and the need for a modern universal language preoccupied... more Concern regarding linguistic nationalism and the need for a modern universal language preoccupied many European writers, artists and philosophers throughout the inter-and postwar years. This article looks at a peculiar overlap in the activities of two notable persons involved in this matter: Eugen Gomringer and Eugene Jolas. Their respective projects for poetry aimed to offer solutions for a modern problem. But while Jolas's interwar approach to deprivilege national languages was done by mixing languages and vocabularies, Gomringer's postwar efforts for universality involved the extreme reduction of language. By tracing Jolas's efforts to decouple language from nationality to his later activities as editor-in-chief for the German News Agency, an interconnectivity between the avant-garde and postwar programs for objective language and writing is revealed. Included among these is Gomringer's concretist program for a universalizing aesthetic. The moment in which Jolas and Gomringer's activities intersect is one at which objectivity became an aesthetic and moral focal point for German-language concretists, early Gruppe 47 poets, and Allied efforts to denazify the German language.
Academic Blog Posts by Maggie Rosenau
Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curricullum, 2023
In anticipation of this year’s DDGC conference, the DDGC Mutual Aid Network reflects on current c... more In anticipation of this year’s DDGC conference, the DDGC Mutual Aid Network reflects on current conversations around academic ableism and disability justice and shares resources for building accessibility and mutual aid into the classroom.
Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum, 2021
Mutual aid is about addressing present needs in direct, manageable, and sustainable ways. Though ... more Mutual aid is about addressing present needs in direct, manageable, and sustainable ways. Though we are starting with what is most proximate—our German Studies communities—we are not alone in our endeavors. We deserve better than how we are being asked to exist right now. There are needs to address and coalitions to build, and there are futures to scheme. The Diversity, Decolonization and the German Curriculum Mutual Aid Network’s goal is to help organize and mobilize within our institutions as well as outside of them.
Digital Feminist Collective, 2020
In this post we want to share some thoughts on how and why the disabled community is suddenly rec... more In this post we want to share some thoughts on how and why the disabled community is suddenly receiving greater attention. We would like, in specific, to talk about the value of disabled knowledge, and how the story of disability justice connects to two separate however interrelated events happening now: the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter uprisings. By sharing sources that amplify disabled voices and collectives doing important social justice work, we hope to encourage involvement as we navigate together through these uncertain times.
Kunst Zwischen Deckeln, Bayrische Staatsbibliothek, 2019
Der Text richtet seinen Blick auf Parallelen zwischen Textil- und Textstruktur und zieht zum Bauh... more Der Text richtet seinen Blick auf Parallelen zwischen Textil- und Textstruktur und zieht zum Bauhausjahr einen überraschenden Vergleich zwischen Dieter Roth und Anni Albers. Die Libri selecti der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek beherbergen einen der umfangreichsten Bestände von Dieter Roths Künstlerbüchern.
Book Reviews by Maggie Rosenau
Music, the Avant-Garde, and Counterculture: Invisible Republics, 2025
Swiss-Icelandic artist Dieter Roth is largely celebrated as a visual artist who redefined the boo... more Swiss-Icelandic artist Dieter Roth is largely celebrated as a visual artist who redefined the book as an art-object. While many of his artist’s books present typographical experiments and collaged language material, investigations rarely include close readings. This chapter highlights his poem “Some Variations on 4”—both as a single unit and part of the larger work in which it exists—and argues that, despite its non-linguistic composition and graphic design appearance, the work visually articulates rhetorical elements central to lyrical poetry. Aesthetic response theory is useful for interpreting the visual iconicity of concrete poetry. Drawing on Iser’s concept of “gestalt” as an organized whole that emerges through the process of reading, Roth’s aesthetic object reveals both a conceptual whole and an unexpected readability. Although Roth has created a categorically concrete and therefore almost unutterable work of poetry, it is capable of engaging in a discourse on any aspect of the verbivocovisual.
Dieter Roth: Zum literarischen Werk des Künstlerdichters, 2021
Heute wird Dieter Roth vor allem als bildender Künstler gefeiert, der das Buch als Kunstobjekt ne... more Heute wird Dieter Roth vor allem als bildender Künstler gefeiert, der das Buch als Kunstobjekt neu bestimmt habe. Viele seiner Bücher sind unbeschrieben oder bieten typografische Experimente und collagiertes Sprachmaterial; sie sind bisher allerdings selten, wenn überhaupt, einem close reading unterzogen worden. In diesem Artikel nehme ich drei Frühwerke Roths genauer unter die Lupe, die, so meine These, ungeachtet ihres nicht-semantischen, manchmal nicht-sprachlichen Gehalts und ihres rein grafischen Erscheinungsbildes rhetorische Elemente visuell artikulieren, wie sie für die Lyrik typisch sind. Ich möchte zeigen, dass sich diese Werke, obwohl Roth sie als grundsätzlich konkrete und deshalb unaussprechliche oder nicht laut artikulierbare literarische Werke konzipiert hat, immer noch im Bereich des verbi-voco-visual bewegen, ihnen also ein starker Zusammenhang zwischen Sprache, Bild und Klang eignet.
Feminist German Studies, 2024
Smiling, enthusiasm, attentive presentness, eagerness to be part of initiatives, and other optimi... more Smiling, enthusiasm, attentive presentness, eagerness to be part of initiatives, and other optimism-oriented behaviors have long been the hallmark of pedagogical practices in higher education. Showing up in a “good mood” and with a “glass half full” attitude casts both instructor and student as collegial interlocutors and admirable members of a classroom community. Conversely, affective relations that deviate from optimism are a liability to the operations of the course. Feeling unwell threatens optimism-conditioned classroom relations, and unwellness becomes a burden to be managed. Those of us living with depression, trauma, and related experiences resulting from the erosion of the body-mind under neoliberalism consequently feel out of place in optimism-oriented educational settings. But unwellness can also be a resource to understand the effects of harmful structures on our bodyminds. It can be a site at which we can generate critical knowledge about the institution and thereby forge relations that help us survive in it.
Feminist Formations, 2022
This article examines how resistance toward capitalism's temporal bullying is performed in contem... more This article examines how resistance toward capitalism's temporal bullying is performed in contemporary art and activism. It addresses the relationship between creativity, institutions, and empowerment. Building on the conceptual work of Croatian artist Mladen Stilinović (1947–2016), the article explores several aesthetic presentations of resistive temporalities we identify as non-production. The case studies of non-production herein marshaled affirm a performance of resistance that centers discussion of radicality in self-consciously interdependent care networks, ostensibly available to all disabled and nondisabled individuals. This care ethic claps back at the idea of self-optimization and fiduciary endurance amidst economic regimes of exploitation as virtuous. In the place of 'wellness,' this article affirms new directions in care and mutual aid, as premised on queer, crip, and feminist portrayals of disability praxis and pedagogy.
Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, 2020
Concern regarding linguistic nationalism and the need for a modern universal language preoccupied... more Concern regarding linguistic nationalism and the need for a modern universal language preoccupied many European writers, artists and philosophers throughout the inter-and postwar years. This article looks at a peculiar overlap in the activities of two notable persons involved in this matter: Eugen Gomringer and Eugene Jolas. Their respective projects for poetry aimed to offer solutions for a modern problem. But while Jolas's interwar approach to deprivilege national languages was done by mixing languages and vocabularies, Gomringer's postwar efforts for universality involved the extreme reduction of language. By tracing Jolas's efforts to decouple language from nationality to his later activities as editor-in-chief for the German News Agency, an interconnectivity between the avant-garde and postwar programs for objective language and writing is revealed. Included among these is Gomringer's concretist program for a universalizing aesthetic. The moment in which Jolas and Gomringer's activities intersect is one at which objectivity became an aesthetic and moral focal point for German-language concretists, early Gruppe 47 poets, and Allied efforts to denazify the German language.
Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curricullum, 2023
In anticipation of this year’s DDGC conference, the DDGC Mutual Aid Network reflects on current c... more In anticipation of this year’s DDGC conference, the DDGC Mutual Aid Network reflects on current conversations around academic ableism and disability justice and shares resources for building accessibility and mutual aid into the classroom.
Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum, 2021
Mutual aid is about addressing present needs in direct, manageable, and sustainable ways. Though ... more Mutual aid is about addressing present needs in direct, manageable, and sustainable ways. Though we are starting with what is most proximate—our German Studies communities—we are not alone in our endeavors. We deserve better than how we are being asked to exist right now. There are needs to address and coalitions to build, and there are futures to scheme. The Diversity, Decolonization and the German Curriculum Mutual Aid Network’s goal is to help organize and mobilize within our institutions as well as outside of them.
Digital Feminist Collective, 2020
In this post we want to share some thoughts on how and why the disabled community is suddenly rec... more In this post we want to share some thoughts on how and why the disabled community is suddenly receiving greater attention. We would like, in specific, to talk about the value of disabled knowledge, and how the story of disability justice connects to two separate however interrelated events happening now: the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter uprisings. By sharing sources that amplify disabled voices and collectives doing important social justice work, we hope to encourage involvement as we navigate together through these uncertain times.
Kunst Zwischen Deckeln, Bayrische Staatsbibliothek, 2019
Der Text richtet seinen Blick auf Parallelen zwischen Textil- und Textstruktur und zieht zum Bauh... more Der Text richtet seinen Blick auf Parallelen zwischen Textil- und Textstruktur und zieht zum Bauhausjahr einen überraschenden Vergleich zwischen Dieter Roth und Anni Albers. Die Libri selecti der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek beherbergen einen der umfangreichsten Bestände von Dieter Roths Künstlerbüchern.