Disruption in the Arts: Textual, Visual, and Performative Strategies for Analyzing Societal Self-Descriptions

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2018

Disruption in the Arts

Textual, Visual, and Performative Strategies for Analyzing Societal Self-Descriptions

Edited by: Lars Koch , Tobias Nanz and Johannes Pause
Funded by: European Research Council (ERC)

Volume 11 in the series Culture & Conflict

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110580082

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About this book

Supported by the ERC

The volume examines from a comparative perspective the phenomenon of aesthetic disruption within the various arts in contemporary culture. It assumes that the political potential of contemporary art is not solely derived from presenting its audiences with openly political content, but rather from creating a space of perception and interaction using formal means: a space that makes hegemonic structures of action and communication observable, thus problematizing their self-evidence. The contributions conceptualize historical and contemporary politics of form in the media, which aim to be more than mere shock strategies, which are concerned not just with the ‘narcissistic’ exhibition of art as art, but also with the creation of a new common horizon of experience. They combine the analysis of paradigmatic works, procedures and actions with reference to theoretical debates in the fields of literature, media and art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The essay-collection shows how textual, visual, auditive or performative strategies disclose their own ways of functioning, intervene in automated processes of reception and thus work on stimulating a sense of political possibilities.
The editors acknowledge support from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP 7/ 2007–2013), ERC grant agreement no. 312454.

Author / Editor information

Lars Koch, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany; Tobias Nanz, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany; Johannes Pause, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Table of contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Disruption in the Arts: Prologue Lars Koch, Tobias Nanz and Johannes Pause Open Access Download PDF	IX
I. Conceptual Approaches
Aesthetic experiments: On the Event-Like Character and the Function of Disruptions in the Arts Lars Koch and Tobias Nanz Open Access Download PDF	3
Scandalous Expectations: Second Order Scandals in Modern Society Moritz Mutter Open Access Download PDF	27
Ekstasis and Paradoxa. The Miracle as Disruption Mario Grizelj Open Access Download PDF	37
Imagined Scenarios of Disruption. A Concept Lars Koch, Tobias Nanz and Johannes Pause Open Access Download PDF	63
II. Media
Disruptive Storytelling. Notes on E.T.A. Hoffmann Tanja Prokić Open Access Download PDF	85
Perturbing the Reader: The Riddle-character of Art and the Dialectical Impact of Contemporary Literature (Adorno, Goetz, Kracht) Christoph Kleinschmidt Open Access Download PDF	105
Expansions of the Instant: Disruptions of Time in Contemporary German Literature Johannes Pause Open Access Download PDF	117
Disruption, Photography, and the Idea of Aesthetic Resistance Marie-Sophie Himmerich Open Access Download PDF	133
III. Body
Interferences: Posthuman Perspectives on Early Electronic Music Anna Schürmer Open Access Download PDF	189
The Dis/rupture of Film as Skin: Jean-Luc Nancy, Claire Denis, and Trouble Every Day Daniel Eschkötter Open Access Download PDF	211
“They Starve to death, but who dares ask why?”: Steve McQueen’s Film Hunger Tanja Nusser Open Access Download PDF	231
Writing Aphasia: Intermedial Observation of Disrupted Language in Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Arbeit und Struktur Elisabeth Heyne Open Access Download PDF	247
IV. Power
The Red Telephone: A Hybrid Object of the Cold War Tobias Nanz Open Access Download PDF	275
Christoph Schlingensief’s Image Disruption Machine Lars Koch Open Access Download PDF	291
Citizen n-1: Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour as a Reparative Reading of a Paranoid World Katrin M. Kämpf and Christina Rogers Open Access Download PDF	315
V. Archive
Notes on Secondary Drama Elfriede Jelinek Open Access Download PDF	337
Disturbance in the Intermediate: Secondary Drama as a Parasite Teresa Kovacs Open Access Download PDF	339
Signal-to-Noise Ratio Friedrich Kittler Open Access Download PDF	347
Disrupted Arts and Marginalized Humans: A Commentary on Friedrich Kittler’s “Signal-to-Noise Ratio” Tobias Nanz Open Access Download PDF	363
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	369
Index of Subjects Open Access Download PDF	373
Index of Persons Open Access Download PDF	379

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of literature, media, film and theatre studies
Pages
- Front matter: 15
- Main content: 381
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 8
- Coloured Illustrations: 32
Keywords: Disruption; arts; societal self-description

eBook

Published: August 21, 2018
ISBN: 9783110580082

Hardcover

Published: August 21, 2018
ISBN: 9783110565867