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  1. Scheerbart on the beach : visiting "The Sea-Serpent"
    Erschienen: 28.10.2024

    Scheerbart is already working on his cosmological project, the alteration of Earth-dwellers, in his early writing. The present essay will focus on a text of his that has hardly been examined until now, "Die Seeschlange. Ein See-Roman" ("The... mehr

     

    Scheerbart is already working on his cosmological project, the alteration of Earth-dwellers, in his early writing. The present essay will focus on a text of his that has hardly been examined until now, "Die Seeschlange. Ein See-Roman" ("The Sea-Serpent: A Sea-Novel", 1901), which can be considered an entrée to the wider project. On the one hand, Scheerbart here explores the relationship between Planet Earth and its human inhabitants, offering a critique of their bourgeois-humanistic manifestation. But in doing so, his starting point is neither the human being nor nature, hence the two ideal-typical poles of terrestrial causal connection; rather, it is the medium that draws up and regulates these poles. From Scheerbart's perspective, this medium is very clearly architecture, or technique in general. For this reason, also at stake in the novel, on the other hand, is exploring architecture's metaphysical and ethical potential. These two thematic strands are intertwined in the mythic sea-serpent, conceptualized in a tripartite manner: as the vehicle for pan-psychic cosmology; as a higher-order fiction; and as planetary architecture. All three of these conceptual levels have elements that suggest an understanding of this maritime creature as the figuration of a critique of humanism. The sea-novel thus reveals an important moment in Scheerbart's poetics - a moment we might describe as his posthuman turn.

     

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    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Teil eines Buches (Kapitel); bookPart
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 978-94-6166-592-8; 978-94-6166-593-5; 978-94-6270-440-4
    DDC Klassifikation: Literatur und Rhetorik (800); Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur (830)
    Sammlung: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL)
    Schlagworte: Scheerbart, Paul; Mensch; Natur; Technik
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  2. Lord Karl: jumping ship and professional ethics as narrative drivers in Conrad and Kafka
    Autor*in: Wagner, Benno
    Erschienen: 26.11.2024

    In a radical shift from Hans Blumenberg's account of the classical trope, "Shipwreck with Spectator", the existence of the spectator is no longer grounded in their safe detachment from shipwreck, but from their fearless involvement in it. In this... mehr

     

    In a radical shift from Hans Blumenberg's account of the classical trope, "Shipwreck with Spectator", the existence of the spectator is no longer grounded in their safe detachment from shipwreck, but from their fearless involvement in it. In this article, I will shift focus once again, from those involved, lifesaving spectators of shipwreck to the immediate actors, or rather: the actor-network of sea travel, which includes shipping companies, crews, passengers, and ships. This actor-network, with the sailing crew at its core, has been subsumed into a binding code of behavior in distress ever since the 1852 foundering of the Royal Navy steam frigate HMS Birkenhead at Danger Point, off the Western Cape of Africa. The code's two key imperatives - "women and children first" and "captain goes down with the ship," henceforth known as the Birkenhead drill - were safely embedded in Victorian morals by popular life guides. [...] Based on this shift of attention, I will look at two different articulations of this dilemma, the "Jeddah incident" of July 1880 (a shipwreck that never happened), and the sinking of the Titanic of April 1912 (a shipwreck that has been happening ever since), and unfold the translation of each case in a modern novel: Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim" for the former, and Franz Kafka's "Der Verschollene" ("The Man who Disappeared") for the latter. I will pay particular attention to the role of professional ethics as drivers of the narrative in both cases, and I will highlight how the two authors, while using an almost identical plot structure, pursue different strategies of fictionalizing the Birkenhead dilemma.

     

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  3. Ego trip into solitude : Christian Kortmann's novel "Single-Handed Sailing"
    Erschienen: 28.10.2024

    Christian Kortmann's novel "Einhandsegeln" ("Single-Handed Sailing", 2021) tells the story of a voyage on the open sea by an anonymous sailor in the first person. Maneuvers, meal preparation, and the encounter with the maritime infinity fill the... mehr

     

    Christian Kortmann's novel "Einhandsegeln" ("Single-Handed Sailing", 2021) tells the story of a voyage on the open sea by an anonymous sailor in the first person. Maneuvers, meal preparation, and the encounter with the maritime infinity fill the pages. Is it a sailing book? Is it a self-testimony or oceanography? Is it all in one? Yes and no. The novel indulges in sailing and maps the waters of the southern hemisphere. Against this backdrop, a man has become weary of a dubious way of life on land, reflecting on his personal existence. The novel contrasts the indulgence of being alone at sea and being social on land. Although the single-handed sailing trip sets the narrative pace until the last page, the book blends into a multifarious text that also puts the seafarer's morale to the test.

     

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  4. When seascapes collide : visual and vocal contact in Kröger's and Scheffner's "Havarie"
    Erschienen: 28.10.2024

    In 2015, author Merle Kröger located an entire novel on the Mediterranean: on a body of water that has had to be considered not only a highly frequented connective zone but at the same time a strictly observed border region. The events around which... mehr

     

    In 2015, author Merle Kröger located an entire novel on the Mediterranean: on a body of water that has had to be considered not only a highly frequented connective zone but at the same time a strictly observed border region. The events around which everything in this novel centers are the maritime distress of a refugee boat with a damaged motor off the Spanish coast; the boat's sighting by a cruise ship with the telling name 'Spirit of Europe'; and the encounter of both with a Spanish coast guard rescue vessel and with a container ship. The novel's original German title, "Havarie", whose literal English translation "average" fails to convey the word's complex meaning, is the nautical designation for malfunctions and accidents suffered by maritime vehicles; and it is also the older insurance-technical term for contributory distribution in the salvaging of a ship (above all through jettisoning of freight and the "sacrifice" of certain parts of the ship). The title of the 2017 English translation, "Collision", opens up a third dimension: the collision of different seascapes in a shipwreck's context. Correspondingly, both the polylogic contents and the multi-perspectivism of Kröger's novel attach a different relationship to the world and the environment to different kinds of boat: the "boat people" on their very basic water vehicles see their situation above all through the prism of circulating stories and rumors, myths and fables; on the cruiser, we find a temporally removed economy of consumeristic attentiveness that allows the sea to vanish beneath a "display" of the all-encompassing service and entertainment offerings; and the coast guard ship is fully oriented toward speedily detecting and approaching a target. [...] As the afterword itself underscores, the book, although a work of fiction, was based on documentary research. And its starting point was found footage - the jetsam of a data-ocean. Namely, by coincidence Kröger, together with her collaborator, the filmmaker Philipp Scheffner, came across a YouTube video recorded by the Northern Irishman Terry Diamond in 2012 off the Spanish coast, on board the "Adventure of the Seas". They researched the background, met Diamond, obtained the relevant radio recordings from the Spanish coast guard, and finally interviewed and filmed both the cruiser's personnel and a number of refugees. When in 2015 Mediterranean crossings from North Africa multiplied and the mass media issued alarmist reports of a "refugee crisis," Scheffner and Kröger wanted to do more than simply contribute their already-produced documentary film to the image flood. They decided on a new approach involving something like parallel literary and filmic action: Kröger shaped what had been researched into a possible scenario; and Scheffner worked with the video recordings as image material and with both the radio and interview recordings as sound material.

     

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  5. The rehabilitation of the drive in neuropsychoanalysis : from sexuality to self-preservation

    The nascent field of neuropsychoanalysis positions itself as a putative bridge between two »historically divided disciplines«. In this chapter, we address this attempt to bridge these two disciplines, through considering a particular scientific and... mehr

     

    The nascent field of neuropsychoanalysis positions itself as a putative bridge between two »historically divided disciplines«. In this chapter, we address this attempt to bridge these two disciplines, through considering a particular scientific and conceptual debate that is taking place within this new field. Neuropsychoanalysis is a diverse and loosely defined interdisciplinary field that comprises the efforts of researchers and clinicians within several branches of both psychoanalysis and the neurosciences to construct a shared space of inquiry in which clinical concepts and findings can be correlated with neuronal data and models. While researchers differ in how they conceptualize the specific contours of this shared space, they tend to converge in their desire to figure out how Freudian concepts might be anchored through neurobiological and anatomico-functional investigations.

     

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    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Teil eines Buches (Kapitel); bookPart
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 978-3-86599-162-1
    DDC Klassifikation: Literatur und Rhetorik (800)
    Sammlung: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL)
    Schlagworte: Freud, Sigmund; Psychoanalyse; Neuropsychologie
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