Difference and Orientation: An Alexander Kluge Reader

Alexander Kluge

Published by Cornell University Press 2019

Difference and Orientation

An Alexander Kluge Reader

Alexander Kluge
Edited by: Richard Langston

In the series signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501739224

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About this book

Together, these works highlight Kluge's career-spanning commitment to unorthodox, essayistic thinking.

Author / Editor information

Kluge Alexander :

Richard Langston is Associate Professor of German Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Visions of Violence and translator of History and Obstinacy.Langston Richard :

Richard Langston is an Associate Professor of German Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Visions of Violence, a co-editor of the Alexander Kluge-Jahrbuch, the lead translator of Kluge and Negt's History and Obstinacy, and the author of a forthcoming monograph on Negt and Kluge entitled Dark Matter, in Defiance of Catastrophic Modernity.

Reviews

Michael Jennings, Princeton University, coauthor of Walter Benjamin:

"Interest in Alexander Kluge's astonishingly varied production has exploded in the English-Language world. This volume makes available for the first time a judicious selection of his most important essays and shows Kluge the essayist is no less remarkable than Kluge the filmmaker, Kluge the author of fictions, Kluge the theorist, or Kluge the media visionary."

Christopher Pavsek, Simon Fraser University, author of The Utopia of Film:

"Richard Langston has assembled a remarkable collection of essays and interviews by Alexander Kluge that introduces English-speaking readers to a different Kluge than they are familiar with. The excellent translations capture the incisiveness, range, and wit of one of the most intelligent, prolific, and creative minds in contemporary Europeean history."

Rainer Stollmann, University of Bremen:

"Alexander Kluge's colossal oeuvre sets out to shepherd both Theodor W. Adorno's and Walter Benjamin's Frankfurt School into the twenty-first century. Richard Langston's anthology provides English-language readers with an essential compendium containing five decades of Kluge's reflections on Critical Theory's poetical potential."

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Translator Information Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Part I. Introduction
The Guardian of Difference: The Essayist Alexander Kluge Richard Langston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part II. Literature
1. The Difference (1985) Heinrich von Kleist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. Storytelling Is the Representation of Differences (2001) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3. The Peacemaker (2003) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
4. Companions in Now-Time (2007) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
5. Storytelling Means Dissolving Relations (2008) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
6. Theory of Storytelling: Lecture One (2013) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
7. What Is a Metaphor? (2016) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Part III. Film
8. Word and Film (1965) Edgar Reitz, Alexander Kluge and Wilfried Reinke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
9. Bits of Conversation (1966) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
10. The Realistic Method and the “Filmic” (1975) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
11. Film: A Utopia (1983) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
12. A Plan with the Force of a Battleship (2008) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
13. No Farewell to Yesterday: New German Cinema from 1962 to 1981 as Seen from 2011 (2012) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
Part IV. From Classical to New Media: Opera, Television, Internet
14. An Answer to Two Opera Quotations (1983/84) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
15. On the Expressions “Media” and “New Media”: A Selection of Keywords (1984) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
16. Medialization—Musealization (1990) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
17. The Opera Machine (2001) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
18. Primitive Diversity (2002) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
19. Planting Gardens in the Data Tsunami (2010) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Part V. Theory
20. The Role of Fantasy (1974) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
21. The Function of the Distorted Angle in the Destructive Intention (1989) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
22. The Political without Its Despair: On the Concept of “Populism” (1992) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	378
23. War (2001) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	392
24. The Art of Drawing Distinctions (2003) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	407
25. Critique, Up Close and Personal (2007) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	434
26. The Actuality of Adorno (2009) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	450
27. Inventory of a Century: On Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project (2013) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	462
28. An Instance of Internet Telephony over the Himalayas (2016) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	484
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	513

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 552
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 22
- Images: 22
- Other: 22 b&w halftones
Keywords: Alexander Kluge; Aesthetics; Media Theory; Film Theory; Critical Theory

eBook

Published: September 15, 2019
ISBN: 9781501739224