Auf welche Weise verschwistern sich in der Moderne Sichtbarkeit und Wirtschaftlichkeit? Welchen Gesetzen gehorcht die Visualität des Kapitals, welchen Logiken die Visualität als Kapital? Das sind einige der Fragen, auf die dieser Band Antworten zu geben versucht.

Un attroupement de personnes, scandant parfois des slogans, équipées souvent de pancartes
ou de banderoles : il suffit de peu de signes pour identifier une manifestation comme telle.
Dans la manifestation, la procession s’accompagne d’une protestation physique, elle oscille
entre émeute et rassemblement festif, révolution et réforme, menace e…[Read more]

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This article presents the frontispiece of the Leviathan, the emblem of the Body Politic,
in new contexts. S tarting from a detail mostly overlooked in previous analyses, the masks of the
plague doctors, the author sketches a new picture of sovereignty, establishing a connection to
sanitation and biopolitics. As the crux of his interpretation…[Read more]

This case study looks at the march of the Paris women to Versailles in October
1789
as a paradigmatic point in the history of demonstration. The march of the market
women is also an expression of their long tradition of political participation as
members of a corporative estate as well as of the experience of loss of power. The
focus is above…[Read more]

In this essay the theoretical focus of postcolonial theory has been shifted
from the cultures and societies of former formal colonies to those countries
that have an explicit self-understanding as an outsider within the European
colonial power constellation. Using the example of Switzerland, it analyses
the presence and perseverance of…[Read more]

Introduction to special issue

Instead of preventing protest, deportations on political grounds could – under certain
circumstances – help to spread dissent. Accordingly, the spaces deportees were sent
became fertile ground for new coalitions. Analysing such spaces furthers our understanding
of how resistance may be contained, dispersed and re-constituted. The main
part of…[Read more]

This book is the first full-length monograph to bring a range of computational methods to bear in a sustained fashion, on a single novel, at the micro-level. While most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history – using their digital methods as a telescope – following calls by Alan Liu…[Read more]

Veit Harlan zählte zu den wichtigsten Regisseuren des Nationalsozialismus, insbesondere mit seinem antisemitischen Propagandafilm „Jud Süss“. Nach dem Krieg musste sich Harlan wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit vor Gericht verantworten, wurde jedoch aus Mangel an Beweisen 1950 freigesprochen und konnte seine Regietätigkeit fortse…[Read more]

The plague doctors’ masks on the frontispiece of the “Leviathan”, John Locke’s empty land, the photographs by Carleton Watkins, a military policeman’s protective mask, the colonial history of the deportation camps, the plague policies and the Sans-Papiers – these are the seemingly disparate pieces that Francesca Falk assembles into a mosaic to…[Read more]

Se o estudo do que Clarisse denomina filmes de contato depende de uma compreensão histórica do que está em jogo em cada uma das obras abordadas, sua análise de Os últimos isolados (Adrian Cowell, 1967-1999), Corumbiara (Vincent Carelli, 1986-2009) e Os Arara (Andrea Tonacci, 1980-) busca pensar a relação entre culturas como experiência aberta…[Read more]

Traditionally read as a poem about laboring subjects who gain power through abstract and abstracting forms of bodily discipline, John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) more compellingly foregrounds the erotics of the Garden as a space where humans and nonhumans intra-act materially and sexually. Following Christopher Hill, who long ago pointed t…[Read more]

Turning to Walter Ralegh’s Discoverie of Guiana (1596) and The History of the World (1614), I reframe such biopolitical factors as Ralegh’s “dissability” around a concept that has less to do with human world-making and more to do with the “states of exception” (Giorgio Agamben) under which inhuman agencies come to matter for world history (of…[Read more]

This is the Vol – 2, SPECIAL ISSUE 4: VOL – 2, MARCH 2020 issue.

This is the Vol – 2, SPECIAL ISSUE 4: VOL – 1, MARCH 2020 issue.

Though the verbal icon has a long and robust multisensory history extending beyond Milton, my goal here is to challenge ableist readings of Milton’s poetry by linking his poetic ekphrasis to the politics and aesthetics of disability.

This essay offers a critique of the vitalist turn in queer and ecological theory, here represented by the work of Karen Barad. Whereas Barad advances an image of life geared towards meaningful connection with others, human and nonhuman, Deleuze advances an a-signifying ontology of self-dismissal. The point of this essay isn’t to separate their t…[Read more]