Published by De Gruyter

Undisziplinierte Bücher

Gegenwartsdiagnosen und ihre historischen Genealogien

Edited by: Iris Därmann, Andreas Gehrlach and Thomas Macho

ISSN: 2626-9244

e-ISSN 2626-9252

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Wissenschaftliches Schreiben ist nach wie vor zumeist ein Schreiben in Disziplinen. Das gilt insbesondere für die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften: Die Zugehörigkeit zu einer bestimmten akademischen Disziplin bestimmt in einem hohen Maß nicht nur den Inhalt des Gesagten, sondern auch die Form dessen, was überhaupt gesagt werden kann.

Was aber, wenn nicht die Disziplin, sondern die Frage zuerst da ist? Wenn geistes- und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung sich jenseits disziplinärer Ordnung in einem primären Fragen verortet und damit ein unmarkiertes Feld betritt. Dann kann ein Forschen und Schreiben entstehen, das nicht interdisziplinär ist, sondern sich jenseits der üblichen Disziplinen und Disziplinierungen des Akademischen stellt.

Die ‚Undiszipliniertheit‘ der Reihe kann sich sowohl in der Methode als auch in der Schreibweise und im Gegenstand der Untersuchungen offenbaren. Der Begriff der ‚Undiszipliniertheit‘ zielt dabei nicht auf ein Jenseits des wissenschaftlichen Diskurses. Er meint vielmehr ein Fragen, das vor der disziplinären Verortung eines Projekts entspringt und den Gang der Untersuchung mit einem Grundton der Dringlichkeit unterlegt. Eine (auch politische) Positionierung der Texte ist durchaus gewollt, wenn nicht unvermeidbar: Mit der Undiszipliniertheit ist nicht nur an eine Verortung abseits oder an den schon ins Marginale übergehenden Rändern wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen gedacht, sondern auch an eine Verweigerung gegenüber öffentlichen und politischen Disziplinierungen. Diese Verweigerung muss nicht explizit sein, darf aber in einem direkten oder indirekten Aktualitätsbezug der Texte sichtbar werden.

Herausgeber_innen
Iris Därmann, Andreas Gehrlach und Thomas Macho

Wissenschaftlicher Beirat
Andreas Bähr, Kathrin Busch, Philipp Felsch, Dorothee Kimmich, Morten Paul, Jan Söffner

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Iris Därmann, Andreas Gehrlach und Thomas Macho

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Book 2023

Figuren des Versagens

Poetik eines sozialen Urteils

Nora Weinelt

Volume 10 in this series

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This comparatist study is the first to address failure, a historically recent figure of thought. By looking at selected literary works and scholarly discourses, it examines the origins and implications of the genuinely modern concept of the non-functioning subject, which began taking shape around 1850. It investigates texts by authors like Gustave Flaubert, Italo Svevo, Franz Kafka, and Sigmund Freud.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111033532
ISBN:: 9783111033532
ISBN:: 9783111033822
ISBN:: 9783111033020
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: General Cultural Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2023

SOS: Medien des Überlebens

Die existenzielle Bedeutung von Lebenszeichen in Notfällen

Martin Siegler

Volume 9 in this series

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SOS signals, knocks, flares, or messages in a bottle: when people find themselves in distress, they must use all possible means to draw attention to themselves. They have to send distress signals in order to stay alive. This book examines numerous catastrophes to show why people in emergencies are existentially dependent on media and means of communication.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111075341
ISBN:: 9783111075341
ISBN:: 9783111074641
ISBN:: 9783111076454
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Media Studies
Subject:: Media Theory
Subject:: Media Aesthetics
Subject:: General Cultural Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2023

Entgrenzte Ähnlichkeit im Milieu des Surrealismus

Konturen, Vorgeschichte und Konjunktur eines ästhetischen Konzepts

Sara Bangert

Volume 8 in this series

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As one component of ongoing research into the persistence of similarity in aesthetic modernism, this study sketches the historical and conceptual dimensions of similarity as an aesthetic and epistemological paradigm and looks at the similarity concepts of Breton, Ernst, Magrittes, and Caillois to examine how surrealism’s transversal agenda released similarity from rational, representational, and identitarian criteria.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110767865
ISBN:: 9783110767865
ISBN:: 9783110767889
ISBN:: 9783110767780
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Genres
Subject:: Painting
Subject:: Periods
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Visual Arts, Photography
Subject:: General Cultural Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2022

Forensische Verfahren in den zeitgenössischen Künsten

Forensic Architecture und andere Fallanalysen

Lisa Stuckey, FWF

Volume 7 in this series

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The research agency Forensic Architecture investigates war crimes and ecological as well as political crises and brings them into the exhibition as well as the courtroom with its "Investigative Aesthetics" (MACBA 2017). Following the figure of "Law on Trial" Lisa Stuckey examines why aesthetic and poetic forensic procedures, of all things, are entrusted with a radical questioning of social justice.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110732887
ISBN:: 9783110732887
ISBN:: 9783110791037
ISBN:: 9783110737721
Subject:: Architecture and Design
Subject:: Architecture
Subject:: Theory
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Art Theory
Subject:: Periods
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: General Cultural Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Auftakte der Bioakustik

Zur Wissensgeschichte nichtmenschlicher Stimmen um 1800 und 1900

Denise Reimann

Volume 6 in this series

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Interest in the voice grew in the late eighteenth century. It was above all its appearance at the peripheries and outside of human articulation and perception that came into view. Physiology, linguistic anthropology, media technology, and literature examined the vocal expressions of animals in an intense process of exchange. This study traces the historic prerequisites for and cultural interferences of bioacoustics avant la lettre.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110727654
ISBN:: 9783110727654
ISBN:: 9783110726664
ISBN:: 9783110727777
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: General Cultural Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Sciences
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2021

Narrative der Migration

Eine andere deutsche Kulturgeschichte

Özkan Ezli

Volume 5 in this series

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The cultural history of German migration society is still unwritten, even though, since the 1960s, numerous interactions and aesthetic negotiations have taken place in literature, film, and in societal debates and theories that have driven the transformation of the political system. This volume opens up an unexpected perspective on informal relations and potentials that have so far received little attention.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110731347
ISBN:: 9783110731347
ISBN:: 9783111270258
ISBN:: 9783110731385
ISBN:: 9783110736588
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Film
Subject:: General Cultural Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: 21st Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Statische Moderne

Zum Begriff der Statik in bildender Kunst, Literatur und Architektur in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts

Nicole Rettig

Volume 4 in this series

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Unlike conventional avant-garde narratives that primarily revolve around dynamic processes, this volume explores the static side of modernism. Mondrian, Schlemmer, and Benn are presented as "aesthetic staticians," who, like engineers, are on the search for balance. A dazzling panorama of cultural and theoretical history unfurls, revealing how statics shaped classical modernism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110730913
ISBN:: 9783110730913
ISBN:: 9783111356761
ISBN:: 9783110735475
ISBN:: 9783110731040
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Periods
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Visual Arts, Photography
Subject:: General Cultural Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Avantgarde
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Begehren und Ökonomie

Eine sozialphilosophische Studie

Jule Govrin

Volume 3 in this series

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During the political upheaval of 1968, a frequent topic of conversation was how economics rules desire and how desire drives capitalism. This study investigates the relationship between desire and economics based on paradigmatic positions in the history of philosophy. It also suggests ways to update the claims of Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus for late-stage capitalism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110686975
ISBN:: 9783110686975
ISBN:: 9783110687088
ISBN:: 9783111130361
ISBN:: 9783110682946
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Society
Subject:: General Cultural Studies
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy
Subject:: Aesthetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Die Politisierung des Abfalls

Elemente einer Kulturtheorie häuslicher Müllentsorgung

Laura Moisi

Volume 2 in this series

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Trash: It sits in the street and in yellow bins, carefully sorted or carelessly discarded, omnipresent yet invisible. This study investigates the cultural politics of waste, including day-to-day life of the garbage can, the phenomenon of hoarding, and present-day trash separation. Modern trash is not only the basis of justifications of inequality. Garbage also reveals the limits of domination of the one over the other.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110613360
ISBN:: 9783110613360
ISBN:: 9783111126807
ISBN:: 9783110607406
ISBN:: 9783110604382
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Society
Subject:: Other Topics
Subject:: General Cultural Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Environmental History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Die Kultivierung des Geschmacks

Eine Transformationsgeschichte der kulinarischen Sinnlichkeit

Stephan Zandt

Volume 1 in this series

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Since the 17^th century, palate and taste have been key “technology of the self” used by the new global metropolitan bourgeoisie. The practice of taste, including its communication and staging in a manner divorced from political, economic and bodily needs, holds out the promise of a free and egalitarian society. This history of “mature” taste characterizes a transformation in the realms of orality and appetite.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110640342
ISBN:: 9783110640342
ISBN:: 9783110638301
ISBN:: 9783110638028
ISBN:: 9783110763829
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Cultural Theory
Subject:: General Cultural Theory
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Other Topics
Subject:: General Cultural Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter