Crisis and Astonishment

Author: Dr. Eugenia Roldan, Dr. Juan-Jacques Aupiais, Dr. Torsten Musial, Dr. Rob Ryder, Dr. Ricardo Samaniego de la Fuente, Dr. James Hellings, Prof. Ben Baer, Prof. Dr. Rainer Stollmann, Prof. Dr. Richard Langston and Dr. Irina Simova Series: Alexander Kluge-Jahrbuch

According to Walter Benjamin, the amazement that the things we experience are ‘still’ possible in the 21st century is not a philosophical one. For Alexander Kluge, critical insights only begin when this anti-realistic amazement unfolds beyond human desires.

According to Walter Benjamin, the amazement that the things we experience are 'still' possible in the 21st century is not a philosophical one. For Alexander Kluge, critical insights only begin when this anti-realistic amazement unfolds beyond human desires.

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Children’s picture books from the Romantic period. Theatrical stages inspired by Spinoza. Scenes from the Thirty Years’ War reimagined by artificial intelligence. What narrative cannot achieve, Alexander Kluge transposes into the logic of images. The first half of the nineth volume of the “Alexander Kluge-Jahrbuch” contains a compilation of Kluge’s most recent image experiments that wrestle with crisis and astonishment in the transatlantic public spheres of the twenty-first century. For Kluge, astonishment not only provokes philosophical reflection but also serves as an essential tool for critically grappling with the society of the spectacle. In addition to dialogues with Oskar Negt, Stefan Aust and painter Katharina Grosse, this volume contains scholarly essays on technology and the new space race, cinema and iconoclasm, revolution and Kluge’s aesthetic politics, and decolonialism and ecocriticism.

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Dr. Rainer Stollmann war bis 2012 Professor für Kulturgeschichte an der Universität Bremen.Prof. Dr. Richard Langston lehrt German Studies an der University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Dr. Irina Simova promovierte an der Princeton University und hat eine Vertretungsprofessur in German Studies an der University of Pittsburgh, USA, inne.