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The Technological Introject explores the futures opened up across
the humanities and social sciences by the influential media
theorist Friedrich Kittler. Joining the German tradition of media
studies and systems theory to the Franco-American theoretical
tradition marked by poststructuralism, Kittler's work has redrawn
the boundaries of disciplines and of scholarly traditions. The
contributors position Kittler in relation to Marshall McLuhan,
Jacques Derrida, discourse analysis, film theory, and
psychoanalysis. Ultimately, the book shows the continuing relevance
of the often uncomfortable questions Kittler opened up about the
cultural production and its technological entanglements.
This collection of essays is the first book to take up the urgent
issue of torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts
and humanities. In the post-9/11 era, where we are once again
compelled to entertain debates about the legality of torture, this
volume speaks about the practice in an effort to challenge the
surprisingly widespread acceptance of state-sanctioned torture
among Americans, including academics and the media-entertainment
complex. Speaking about Torture also claims that the concepts and
techniques practiced in the humanities have a special contribution
to make to this debate, going beyond what is usually deemed a
matter of policy for experts in government and the social sciences.
It contends that the way one speaks about torture-including that
one speaks about it-is key to comprehending, legislating, and
eradicating torture. That is, we cannot discuss torture without
taking into account the assaults on truth, memory, subjectivity,
and language that the humanities theorize and that the experience
of torture perpetuates. Such accounts are crucial to framing the
silencing and demonizing that accompany the practice and
representation of torture. Written by scholars in literary
analysis, philosophy, history, film and media studies, musicology,
and art history working in the United States, Europe, and the
Middle East, the essays in this volume speak from a conviction that
torture does not work to elicit truth, secure justice, or maintain
security. They engage in various ways with the limits that torture
imposes on language, on subjects and community, and on governmental
officials, while also confronting the complicity of artists and
humanists in torture through their silence, forms of silencing, and
classic means of representation. Acknowledging this history is
central to the volume's advocacy of speaking about torture through
the forms of witness offered and summoned by the humanities.
In the wake of the Dreyfus affair and the Shoah, many French
intellectuals have maintained rich and complex relationships with
Judaism, beyond as well as within the religious dimension. Whether
they approach it via history, philosophy, biblical studies or
sociology, or following a personal itinerary, many contemporary
intellectuals are deeply involved in Jewish culture. Interviewed at
length by Elisabeth Weber, this volume presents the meditations of
seven well-known French thinkers on the special relations of their
own intellectual pursuit to Judaism. As memory or as the place of
"circumfession" (in Jacques Derrida's words), as the symbol of the
"unrepresentable" (Jean-Francois Lyotard) or as the witness,
according to Emmanuel Levinas, to a "biblical humanity," Judaism is
continually engaged in renewing and displacing contemporary
thought. The volume includes interviews with: Pierre Vidal-Naquet,
Jacques Derrida, Rita Thalmann, Emmanuel Levinas, Leon Poliakov,
Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Luc Rosenzweig.
Essays showcasing Ali and Nino as particularly topical for today's
readers both in and out of the classroom, and providing a number of
diverse approaches to it. Ali and Nino is a novel published in
German in 1937 under the alias "Kurban Said," a love story between
a Muslim man and a Christian woman set in Baku, Azerbaijan, during
World War I and the country's brief independence. Itwas a major
success, translated into several other languages, but was forgotten
by the end of World War II. Recent research by the journalist Tom
Reiss has revealed the identity of the author as Lev/Leo Nussimbaum
(1905-1942), aJewish man born in Baku who converted to Islam,
worked as a journalist in Berlin, and died forgotten in exile.
Reiss's discovery has spurred new interest in the novel, as has the
fact that the book prefigures today's perceived conflicts between
East and West or Islam and Christianity, but also suggests a more
peaceful model of intercultural living in multiethnic Baku's
melting pot of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. The present volume
collects twelve newessays on different aspects of the text by
scholars from a variety of disciplines and cultural backgrounds. It
is intended to showcase the suitability of Ali and Nino for
inclusion in a curriculum focused on German, world literature, or
area studies, and to suggest a variety of approaches to the novel
while also appealing to its fans. Contributors: Sara
Abdoullah-Zadeh, Cori Crane, Chase Dimock, Christine Rapp
Dombrowski, Elizabeth WeberEdwards, Anja Haensch, Kamaal Haque,
Lisabeth Hock, Ruchama Johnston-Bloom, Carl Niekerk, Elke
Pfitzinger, Soraya Saatchi, Daniel Schreiner, Azade Seyhan. Carl
Niekerk is Professor of German with affiliate appointmentsin
French, Comparative and World Literature, and Jewish Studies at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Cori Crane is Associate
Professor of the Practice and Director of the Language Program in
the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature at Duke
University.
In the wake of the Dreyfus affair and the Shoah, many French
intellectuals have maintained rich and complex relationships with
Judaism, beyond as well as within the religious dimension. Whether
they approach it via history, philosophy, biblical studies or
sociology, or following a personal itinerary, many contemporary
intellectuals are deeply involved in Jewish culture. Interviewed at
length by Elisabeth Weber, this volume presents the meditations of
seven well-known French thinkers on the special relations of their
own intellectual pursuit to Judaism. As memory or as the place of
"circumfession" (in Jacques Derrida's words), as the symbol of the
"unrepresentable" (Jean-Francois Lyotard) or as the witness,
according to Emmanuel Levinas, to a "biblical humanity," Judaism is
continually engaged in renewing and displacing contemporary
thought. The volume includes interviews with: Pierre Vidal-Naquet,
Jacques Derrida, Rita Thalmann, Emmanuel Levinas, Leon Poliakov,
Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Luc Rosenzweig.
The Technological Introject explores the futures opened up across
the humanities and social sciences by the influential media
theorist Friedrich Kittler. Joining the German tradition of media
studies and systems theory to the Franco-American theoretical
tradition marked by poststructuralism, Kittler's work has redrawn
the boundaries of disciplines and of scholarly traditions. The
contributors position Kittler in relation to Marshall McLuhan,
Jacques Derrida, discourse analysis, film theory, and
psychoanalysis. Ultimately, the book shows the continuing relevance
of the often uncomfortable questions Kittler opened up about the
cultural production and its technological entanglements.
This collection of essays is the first book to take up the urgent
issue of torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts
and humanities. In the post-9/11 era, where we are once again
compelled to entertain debates about the legality of torture, this
volume speaks about the practice in an effort to challenge the
surprisingly widespread acceptance of state-sanctioned torture
among Americans, including academics and the media-entertainment
complex. Speaking about Torture also claims that the concepts and
techniques practiced in the humanities have a special contribution
to make to this debate, going beyond what is usually deemed a
matter of policy for experts in government and the social sciences.
It contends that the way one speaks about torture-including that
one speaks about it-is key to comprehending, legislating, and
eradicating torture. That is, we cannot discuss torture without
taking into account the assaults on truth, memory, subjectivity,
and language that the humanities theorize and that the experience
of torture perpetuates. Such accounts are crucial to framing the
silencing and demonizing that accompany the practice and
representation of torture. Written by scholars in literary
analysis, philosophy, history, film and media studies, musicology,
and art history working in the United States, Europe, and the
Middle East, the essays in this volume speak from a conviction that
torture does not work to elicit truth, secure justice, or maintain
security. They engage in various ways with the limits that torture
imposes on language, on subjects and community, and on governmental
officials, while also confronting the complicity of artists and
humanists in torture through their silence, forms of silencing, and
classic means of representation. Acknowledging this history is
central to the volume's advocacy of speaking about torture through
the forms of witness offered and summoned by the humanities.
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