1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910159027403321

Autore

Couture Jean-Pierre <1975->

Titolo

Sloterdijk / / Jean-Pierre Couture

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Polity, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-5095-0213-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (155 p.)

Collana

Key Contemporary Thinkers

Disciplina

193

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Key Contemporary Thinkers; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes; 1: Psychopolitics; Cynicism; Mobilization; Rage; Notes; 2: Anthropotechnics; Rules for the Human Zoo; Romancing the Stone: World as Lithotechnics; Out of the Clearing and into the Gym: The Anthropotechnics of Self-improvement; Notes; 3: Spherology; Spatial Turn; Once Upon a Time There Were Spheres; Notes; 4: Controversy; German Publizistik; Philosophy in Real Time: The 1999 "Eugenicist Posthumanism" Scandal; Another Foreseeable Collision: The 2009 Dispute over Income Tax

From Nightingale to HawkNotes; 5: Therapy; The Karlsruhe Garden; Humor, Romantic Wit, and Grotesque Degradation; The Poetics of Disarmament; Ecstatic Proximity; Solar Language; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; References; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Other Works Cited; Index; End User License Agreement



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970248503321

Titolo

Panic and mourning : the cultural work of trauma / / edited by Daniela Agostinho, Elisa Antz, Catia Ferreira

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter, 2012

ISBN

9781283857048

1283857049

9783110283143

311028314X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

Culture & conflict ; ; 1

Classificazione

LB 60000

Altri autori (Persone)

AgostinhoDaniela

AntzElisa

FerreiraCátia

Disciplina

302.17

616.85/21

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Psychic trauma in literature

Crises in literature

Mourning customs in literature

Loss (Psychology) in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Literary negotiations -- A Culture of Fear: Panic, Mourning, Testimony, and the Question of Representation / Ribeiro, António Sousa -- Mourning, Melancholia and Morality: W. G. Sebald's German-Jewish Narratives / Banki, Luisa -- Nostalgias and Mourning: The Nation in the Serbian Journal The Spring (1992-1996) / Miljković, Milan -- Negotiating Loss and Betrayal: Melancholic Ethics and Narrative Agency in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone and Steer Toward Rock / Pehkoranta, Anna -- Melancholic Violence and the Spectre of Failed Ideals in Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers and Yasmina Khadra's Wolf Dreams / Brisley, Lucy -- II. Visual resonances -- Odysseus, Rowing / Weissberg, Liliane -- (Un-)Framing Triumph and Trauma: Visibility, Gender and



Liberation through the Soviet Gaze / Agostinho, Daniela -- The Banality of Trauma: Globalisation, Migrant Labor, and Nostalgia in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian / Wang, Ban -- Evocations of the Unspeakable: Trauma, Silence and Mourning in Contemporary Chinese Art / Ganito, Tânia -- "Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thought": Ritualistic Artefacts and Mourning Mediation in Imperial China / Colla, Elisabetta -- III. (Re-)mediated affects and performances -- Affective Spaces / Tygstrup, Frederik -- Catastrophes in Sight and Sound / Torres, Eduardo Cintra -- From Panic to Mourning: 9/11 and the Need for Spectacle / Gonçalves, Diana -- Stage, Performance, Media Event: the National Commemoration of the Second World War in the Netherlands / Duindam, David -- No Fun: Mourning the Loss of Tragedy in Contemporary Performance Art / Surmann, Frauke -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

'Panic' and 'mourning' are two pivotal constructs that often emerge and interplay under circumstances of conflict, violence, crisis, and catastrophe, both natural and man-made. Whereas panic tends to crop up during the experience of violent events, mourning, on the other hand, relates to the aftermath of a brutal disruption and to the way humans try to make sense of it retrospectively. Conversely, violent events can leave a thread of panic in their aftermath, while mourning can be unsettled, interrupted or even refuelled by another catastrophic incident. From an international and inter-discipl