Cultural Techniques

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2020

Cultural Techniques

Assembling Spaces, Texts & Collectives

Edited by: Jörg Dünne, Kathrin Fehringer, Kristina Kuhn and Wolfgang Struck

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110647044

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This volume presents the preliminary results of the work carried out by the interdisciplinary cultural techniques research lab at the University of Erfurt. Taking up an impulse from media studies, its contributions examine —from a variety of disciplinary perspectives—the interplay between the formative processes of knowledge and action outlined within the conceptual framework of cultural techniques. Case studies in the fields of history, literary (and media) studies, and the history of science reconstruct seemingly fundamental demarcations such as nature and culture, the human and the nonhuman, and materiality and the symbolical order as the result of concrete practices and operations. These studies reveal that particularly basic operations of spatialization form the very conditions that determine emergence within any cultural order.

Ranging from manual and philological "paper work" to practices of opening up and closing off spaces and collective techniques of assembly, these case studies replace the grand narratives of cultural history focusing on micrological examinations of specific constellations between human and nonhuman actors.

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Jörg Dünne, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany; Wolfgang Struck, Kathrin Fehringer, Kristina Kuhn, University of Erfurt, Germany.

Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Introduction Jörg Dünne, Kathrin Fehringer, Kristina Kuhn and Wolfgang Struck Open Access Download PDF	1
Spaces
Working on Barricades and Boulevards: Cultural Techniques of Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Paris Tom Ullrich Open Access Download PDF	23
Cultural Techniques and Founding Fictions Jörg Dünne Open Access Download PDF	47
A Message in a Bottle Wolfgang Struck Open Access Download PDF	61
Waiting: Cultural Techniques, Media, and Infrastructures Gabriele Schabacher Open Access Download PDF	73
Orthopedics by the Roadside: Spikes and Studs as Devices of Social Normalization Christoph Eggersglüß Open Access Download PDF	87
Ballooning: Aeronautical Techniques from Montgolfier to Google Hannah Zindel Open Access Download PDF	107
Texts/Bodies
Attached: The Object and the Collective Bernhard Siegert Open Access Download PDF	131
Monturen/montures: On Riding, Dressing, and Wearing. Nomadic Cultural Techniques and (the Marginalization) of Asian Clothing in Europe Michael Cuntz Open Access Download PDF	141
Self-Imprints of Nature Jörg Paulus Open Access Download PDF	165
Identifying, Categorizing, and Stigmatizing Fat Bodies Jürgen Martschukat Open Access Download PDF	177
Techniques of the Body and Storytelling: From Marcel Mauss to César Aira Kathrin Fehringer Open Access Download PDF	187
Collectives
Writing Out – Gathered Up at a Venture from All Four Corners of the Earth: Jean Paul’s Techniques and Operations (on Excerpts) Bettine Menke Open Access Download PDF	219
Collecting Texts: Miscellaneity in Journals, Anthologies, and Novels (Jean Paul) Nicolas Pethes Open Access Download PDF	243
Reading by Grouping: Collecting Discipline(s) in Brockhaus’s Bilder-Atlas Kristina Kuhn Open Access Download PDF	263
Patience and Precipitation: Two Figures of Historical Change Stephan Gregory Open Access Download PDF	277
The Fruit Fly, the Vermin, and the Prokurist: Operations of Appearing in Kafka’s Metamorphosis Katrin Trüstedt Open Access Download PDF	295
Collective Likeness: Mimetic Aspects of Liking Christiane Lewe Open Access Download PDF	317
List of Figures Open Access Download PDF	331
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	335
Name Index Open Access Download PDF	337
Subject Index Open Access Download PDF	341

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, History
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 345
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 23
- Coloured Illustrations: 23
Keywords: Cultural techniques; spatialization; space; collectives

eBook

Published: August 24, 2020
ISBN: 9783110647044

Hardcover

Published: August 24, 2020
ISBN: 9783110644562