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Was leisten Bilder? Was versprechen sie? Was zeigen und verbergen sie? Welche Handlungs- oder W... more Was leisten Bilder? Was versprechen sie? Was zeigen und verbergen sie? Welche Handlungs- oder Wissensformen erfordern und ermöglichen sie? Bilder besitzen einen doppelten Ortsbezug: Sie besetzen Orte und benötigen diese, um sichtbar zu werden; zugleich entwerfen Bilder andere Räume jenseits ihrer lokalen Verortung. Einen Orientierungspunkt auf dem Weg durch die Topologien der Bilder bietet dabei der Körper als genuiner Ort der Bilderfahrung und Bildproduktion.
Die Europäische Union zwischen Konfusion und Vision
Selbstreferenz in Literatur und Wissenschaft
Journal of European Studies
While the European migrant crisis is omnipresent in political and medial discourses, two of its k... more While the European migrant crisis is omnipresent in political and medial discourses, two of its key causes are only seldom addressed by politicians and journalists: mistakes in Europe’s domestic, foreign and development policies; and Eurocentric, clichéd or ill-informed press coverage on migration. What impedes such political and medial self-criticism? What happens if politicians or journalists publicly address their own mistakes? Creative culture, in turn, has a long tradition of public self-reflexivity. In the wake of the crisis, many literary texts and films self-critically reflect on the literary and filmic framing of migrants, and challenge the political and medial ‘externalization’ of the crisis. Building upon these observations, this contribution suggests a new direction for discursive research: the analysis of self-criticism as an ethical challenge for public communication. It highlights research desiderata, discusses the theoretical foundations for comparing self-reflexivit...
Journal of European Studies
This introduction addresses the increased levels of social, political and ideological polarizatio... more This introduction addresses the increased levels of social, political and ideological polarization and the socio-political conflicts in contemporary Europe that are often subsumed under notions of ‘crisis’. We argue that the humanities and social sciences must react to these scenarios in at least two ways: by critically reflecting on the European project, and by analysing key elements of current ‘crisis’ discourses, such as post-factual narratives of ‘decline’, ‘survival’ and ‘emergency’, and populist fictions of homogeneous, ‘tribal’ cultural domains.
In this contribution, we focus on the image's medial position in relation to language. Basing upo... more In this contribution, we focus on the image's medial position in relation to language. Basing upon the general question if and how words and images may be compatible, we deal with two specific fields of transmediality:
Anja Schürmann refers to the fact that whenever we talk or write about images, we literally try to put them into words, that is: to localize the visual within another medium. In this context, she examines the use of metaphors and comparisons as concrete strategies in past and present image descriptions, which try to bridge or, at least, reduce the medial divide.
Florian Lippert first asks for common patterns of image and text phenomena in the field of aesthetics, recapitulating the transdisciplinary theoretical concept of "constitutive blanks", part of Wolfgang Iser’s definition of literary negativity. In a second step, he tries to connect this topic with the basic question of image related language.
Our aim is to characterize the respective concepts of metaphoricity and negativity as poetic in the truest sense of the word, that is: creating. By including the recipient (of both text and artwork) in the creation of meaning, they may allow what our title puts up for discussion: to speak the unspeakable.
Cybernetics &# 38; Human Knowing, 16, Jan 1, 2009
The essay deals with possibilities of relating Niklas Luhmann's systems theory, especially his no... more The essay deals with possibilities of relating Niklas Luhmann's systems theory, especially his notion of autopoiesis, to the interpretation of literary texts. Beyond the common description of literature as a social (sub)system, it discusses ideas regarding a specific representativity of literature pertaining to autopoiesis as an epistemic figure, as developed by Dietrich Schwanitz and others since the late 1980s. Examples include literary demonstrations of systemic features such as self- referentiality or the self-maintenance of meaning. Furthermore, literature can also be seen as an exceptional case of multiple systemic coupling-- regarding the levels of concrete communication (language), distribution (text), and of generalized communication media (art). However, the fact that systems theory cannot provide a coherent media-specific approach to the modes of connection indicates the further necessity of cross-disciplinary coupling with literary theory.
Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde, Jan 1, 2003
Was leisten Bilder? Was versprechen sie? Was zeigen und verbergen sie? Welche Handlungs- oder W... more Was leisten Bilder? Was versprechen sie? Was zeigen und verbergen sie? Welche Handlungs- oder Wissensformen erfordern und ermöglichen sie? Bilder besitzen einen doppelten Ortsbezug: Sie besetzen Orte und benötigen diese, um sichtbar zu werden; zugleich entwerfen Bilder andere Räume jenseits ihrer lokalen Verortung. Einen Orientierungspunkt auf dem Weg durch die Topologien der Bilder bietet dabei der Körper als genuiner Ort der Bilderfahrung und Bildproduktion.
Die Europäische Union zwischen Konfusion und Vision
Selbstreferenz in Literatur und Wissenschaft
Journal of European Studies
While the European migrant crisis is omnipresent in political and medial discourses, two of its k... more While the European migrant crisis is omnipresent in political and medial discourses, two of its key causes are only seldom addressed by politicians and journalists: mistakes in Europe’s domestic, foreign and development policies; and Eurocentric, clichéd or ill-informed press coverage on migration. What impedes such political and medial self-criticism? What happens if politicians or journalists publicly address their own mistakes? Creative culture, in turn, has a long tradition of public self-reflexivity. In the wake of the crisis, many literary texts and films self-critically reflect on the literary and filmic framing of migrants, and challenge the political and medial ‘externalization’ of the crisis. Building upon these observations, this contribution suggests a new direction for discursive research: the analysis of self-criticism as an ethical challenge for public communication. It highlights research desiderata, discusses the theoretical foundations for comparing self-reflexivit...
Journal of European Studies
This introduction addresses the increased levels of social, political and ideological polarizatio... more This introduction addresses the increased levels of social, political and ideological polarization and the socio-political conflicts in contemporary Europe that are often subsumed under notions of ‘crisis’. We argue that the humanities and social sciences must react to these scenarios in at least two ways: by critically reflecting on the European project, and by analysing key elements of current ‘crisis’ discourses, such as post-factual narratives of ‘decline’, ‘survival’ and ‘emergency’, and populist fictions of homogeneous, ‘tribal’ cultural domains.
In this contribution, we focus on the image's medial position in relation to language. Basing upo... more In this contribution, we focus on the image's medial position in relation to language. Basing upon the general question if and how words and images may be compatible, we deal with two specific fields of transmediality:
Anja Schürmann refers to the fact that whenever we talk or write about images, we literally try to put them into words, that is: to localize the visual within another medium. In this context, she examines the use of metaphors and comparisons as concrete strategies in past and present image descriptions, which try to bridge or, at least, reduce the medial divide.
Florian Lippert first asks for common patterns of image and text phenomena in the field of aesthetics, recapitulating the transdisciplinary theoretical concept of "constitutive blanks", part of Wolfgang Iser’s definition of literary negativity. In a second step, he tries to connect this topic with the basic question of image related language.
Our aim is to characterize the respective concepts of metaphoricity and negativity as poetic in the truest sense of the word, that is: creating. By including the recipient (of both text and artwork) in the creation of meaning, they may allow what our title puts up for discussion: to speak the unspeakable.
Cybernetics &# 38; Human Knowing, 16, Jan 1, 2009
The essay deals with possibilities of relating Niklas Luhmann's systems theory, especially his no... more The essay deals with possibilities of relating Niklas Luhmann's systems theory, especially his notion of autopoiesis, to the interpretation of literary texts. Beyond the common description of literature as a social (sub)system, it discusses ideas regarding a specific representativity of literature pertaining to autopoiesis as an epistemic figure, as developed by Dietrich Schwanitz and others since the late 1980s. Examples include literary demonstrations of systemic features such as self- referentiality or the self-maintenance of meaning. Furthermore, literature can also be seen as an exceptional case of multiple systemic coupling-- regarding the levels of concrete communication (language), distribution (text), and of generalized communication media (art). However, the fact that systems theory cannot provide a coherent media-specific approach to the modes of connection indicates the further necessity of cross-disciplinary coupling with literary theory.
Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde, Jan 1, 2003