@article{Ungelenk2018, author = {Ungelenk, Johannes}, title = {Catastrophic Spectacle}, series = {Catastrophe \& Spectacle: Variations of a Conceptual Relation from the 17th to the 21st Century}, journal = {Catastrophe \& Spectacle: Variations of a Conceptual Relation from the 17th to the 21st Century}, publisher = {Neofelis}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-95808-173-4}, pages = {92 -- 101}, year = {2018}, abstract = {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.}, language = {en} } @article{Ungelenk2020, author = {Ungelenk, Johannes}, title = {Touching this dreaded sight}, series = {Tangieren : Praktiken und Arrangements des Ber{\"u}hrens in den performativen K{\"u}nsten}, journal = {Tangieren : Praktiken und Arrangements des Ber{\"u}hrens in den performativen K{\"u}nsten}, editor = {Fluhrer, Sandra and Waszynski, Alexander}, publisher = {Rombach}, address = {Freiburg i. Br.}, isbn = {978-3-96821-002-5}, pages = {203 -- 220}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Ausgehend von der in Shakespeare zweimal wiederkehrenden Phrase „Touching this dreaded sight" widmet sich der Beitrag mithilfe ausgew{\"a}hlter Stellen aus Shakespeares Hamlet und The Tempest der Wirkkraft des fr{\"u}hneuzeitlichen Theaters. Er geht der Frage nach, wie Zuschauer*innen eines St{\"u}ckes aus der Distanz be-troffen und ge-r{\"u}hrt werden. Um dem nachzudenken, wie diese Distanz zwischen dem Visuellen, dem Schauen im Theater, und dem Haptischen, der Ber{\"u}hrung, {\"u}berbr{\"u}ckt werden kann, helfen fr{\"u}hneuzeitliche Vorstellungen von theatraler Ansteckungskraft und Hans Blumenbergs Konzept menschlicher Betreffbarkeit.}, language = {de} }