TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ungelenk, Johannes
T1  - Catastrophic Spectacle
T2  - Catastrophe & Spectacle: Variations of a Conceptual Relation from the 17th to the 21st Century
N2  - The wood-engraving with the caption “The first sight of Paris”, published in Cassell’s History of the War between France and Germany 1870–1871 (1873), does not depict a spectacular catastrophe. As its title already indicates, it rather illustrates a constellation of sight. What there is to see is not so much a spectacular vista but the fact that one sees – and the way how this works. I would therefore like to use the wood-engraving to analyse the basic setting that is formative for every constellation of ‘spectacle’. This prepares for the second step, which brings in the notion of catastrophe: I will argue that the spectacle of catastrophe which has gained prominence especially in the nineteenth century is not merely a phenomenon of representing catastrophe, but involves the constellation of spectacle as such. Spectacular catastrophes perform and derive their force from a catastrophe of spectacle – this is what the following
will elaborate on.
KW  - Zola
KW  - shipwreck
KW  - absence of distance
KW  - Blumenberg
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/47891
SN  - 978-3-95808-173-4
SP  - 92
EP  - 101
PB  - Neofelis
CY  - Berlin
ER  -