Cultural Techniques : Assembling Spaces, Texts & Collectives / Jörg Dünne, Kathrin Fehringer, Kristina Kuhn, Wolfgang Struck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dünne, Jörg., Editor.

Contributor:

Dünne, Jörg, Editor.

Fehringer, Kathrin, Editor.

Kuhn, Kristina, Editor.

Struck, Wolfgang, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VI, 345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

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

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Working on Barricades and Boulevards: Cultural Techniques of Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Cultural Techniques and Founding Fictions

A Message in a Bottle

Waiting: Cultural Techniques, Media, and Infrastructures

Orthopedics by the Roadside: Spikes and Studs as Devices of Social Normalization

Ballooning: Aeronautical Techniques from Montgolfier to Google

Attached: The Object and the Collective

Monturen/montures: On Riding, Dressing, and Wearing. Nomadic Cultural Techniques and (the Marginalization) of Asian Clothing in Europe

Self-Imprints of Nature

Identifying, Categorizing, and Stigmatizing Fat Bodies

Techniques of the Body and Storytelling: From Marcel Mauss to César Aira

Writing Out - Gathered Up at a Venture from All Four Corners of the Earth: Jean Paul's Techniques and Operations (on Excerpts)

Collecting Texts: Miscellaneity in Journals, Anthologies, and Novels (Jean Paul)

Reading by Grouping: Collecting Discipline(s) in Brockhaus's Bilder-Atlas

Patience and Precipitation: Two Figures of Historical Change

The Fruit Fly, the Vermin, and the Prokurist: Operations of Appearing in Kafka's Metamorphosis

Collective Likeness: Mimetic Aspects of Liking

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Name Index

Subject Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)

ISBN:

9783110645347

3110645343

9783110647044

3110647044

OCLC:

1191864090

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access