TY - JOUR A1 - Pannewick, Friederike A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - The American Hemisphere and the Arab World : introduction Y1 - 2006 SN - 3-86527-289-4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kutzinski, Vera M. A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Inventories and Inventions: Alexander von Humboldt's Cuban Landscapes Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-0-226-46567-8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kutzinski, Vera M. A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - The art of science: Alexander von Humboldt's views of the cultures of the world Y1 - 2012 SN - 0-226-86506-1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar A1 - Ren, Haiyan ED - Ette, Ottmar ED - Knobloch, Eberhard T1 - Exploring China in Alexander von Humboldt: The Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies (HCTS), Changsha JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies N2 - Humboldtian science aims at an empirically supported transdisciplinary and at the same time transareal development of a world consciousness. In the development of this world consciousness, not only Europe and the Americas, but also Central Asia and especially China play an important role. The Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies (HCTS) in Changsha, is attempting to address the fact that China has been largely left out of international Humboldt studies and that Alexander von Humboldt was intensively engaged with Central Asia and China for decades. Therefore, the Humboldt Center in Changsha sets itself the goal of expanding Humboldt Studies to include this important aspect, to stimulate and coordinate special research work, and to build scientific and cultural bridges between Germany and China, Europe and Asia. N2 - Die Humboldt’sche Wissenschaft zielt auf eine empirisch gestützte transdisziplinäre und zugleich transareale Entfaltung eines Weltbewusstseins. Bei der Entwicklung dieses Weltbewusstseins spielen nicht allein Europa und die Amerikas, sondern auch Zentralasien und insbesondere China eine wichtige Rolle. Das Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies (HCTS) in Changsha versucht, der bisher weitgehenden Ausblendung Chinas aus den internationalen Humboldt-Studien und der Tatsache Rechnung zu tragen, dass Alexander von Humboldt sich jahrzehntelang intensiv mit Zentralasien und China beschäftigte. Daher setzt sich das Humboldt-Zentrum in Changsha zum Ziel, die Humboldt-Studien um diesen wichtigen Aspekt zu erweitern, spezielle Forschungsarbeiten anzuregen und zu koordinieren sowie wissenschaftliche und kulturelle Brücken zwischen Deutschland und China, Europa und Asien zu bauen. N2 - La Ciencia Humboldtiana intenta desarrollar, mediante una estrategia a la vez transdisciplinaria y transareal siempre empíricamente fundada, una conciencia mundial (Weltbewusstsein) que se basa en una convivencia en paz y diferencia. Dentro de la concepción de esta conciencia mundial, Asia Central y específicamente China ocupan un lugar importante dentro de las concepciones humboldtianas. A pesar del hecho de que Alejandro de Humboldt estudiara, durante largos años, tanto a la Asia Central y a China, los estudios humboldtianos ofrecen una especie de blind spot en esta área. El Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies (HCTS) en Changsha quiere remediar esta situación, fomentar y coordenar estudios especializados sobre China y el mundo de Asia Central en la obra humboldtiana y crear asimismo un punete científico y cultural entre Alemania y China, entre Europa y Asia Central. el cosmos de Alejandro de Humboldt hubiera quedado incompleto sin la integrqción de esta parte del mundo en su conciencia mundial. KW - Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies KW - Changsha Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-599749 SN - 2568-3543 SN - 1617-5239 VL - XXIV IS - 46 SP - 5 EP - 11 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar A1 - Minnes, M. T1 - Urbanity and literature : cities as transareal spaces of movement in Assia Djebar, Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Cecile Wajsbrot Y1 - 2011 SN - 1062-7987 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Languages about Languages BT - Two Brothers and one Humboldtian Science JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies N2 - In the history of Humboldt research both brothers have been traditionally seen as representing the dichotomy between the humanities and the natural sciences. Today however, their similar approach to using and forming scientific language could be used as a starting point for conceiving a university, museum and even forum under one single Humboldtian science. N2 - En la investigación humboldtiana, los hermanos tradicionalmente representaban la oposición entre las humanidades y las ciencias naturales. Hoy, en cambio, su enfoque similar de usar y construir las lenguas y los discursos de sus respectivas disciplinas se puede usar como punto de partida en concebir una universidad, un museo y un fórum desde una sola ciencia humboldtiana. N2 - In der Vergangenheit sah die Humboldt-Forschung beide Brüder als Vertreter gegenteiliger wissenschaftlicher Ansätze. Heute jedoch kann ihr ähnlicher Zugang zu wissenschaftlicher Sprache als Ausgangspunkt für die Konzipierung einer Universität, eines Museums und Forums unter einer einzigen Humboldtschen Wissenschaft genutzt werden. KW - Wilhelm von Humboldt KW - Alexander von Humboldt KW - cooperation KW - Humboldt brothers KW - Humboldtian science KW - world science KW - epistemology of expansion KW - critical convivence KW - convivence of languages KW - multilingualism KW - energeia KW - Weltansicht KW - Totaleindruck KW - multi-logical Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-419414 SN - 1617-5239 SN - 2568-3543 VL - XIX IS - 36 SP - 47 EP - 61 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Islands, borders, and Vectors : the Fractal World of the Caribbean Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-90-420-2184-6 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Urbanity and literature BT - cities as transareal spaces of movement in Assia Djebar, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar and Cecile Wajsbrot T2 - European Review N2 - Transarea studies focus upon spaces as created by the movements that criss-cross them. From this point of view, from its very beginnings, literature is closely interrelated with a vectorial (and much less with a purely spatial) conception of history - and with urbanity, which plays a decisive role in Gilgamesh's travels through a (narrative) cosmos centered upon the city of Uruk. This article explores the city as a transareal space of movement in three examples of literature, with no fixed abode, around the turn of the millennium, i.e. Assia Djebar's Les Nuits de Strasbourg, Emine Sevgi Oezdamar's Istanbul-Berlin Trilogy, and Cecile Wajsbrot's L'ile aux musees. These three writers project, in a very specific way, cities in motion as anagrammatic and fractal structures. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 145 Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413767 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Magic screens BT - Biombos, Namban Art, the art of globalization and education between China, Japan, India, Spanish America and Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe N2 - Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca, for several centuries doubtlessly the most discussed and most eminent writer of Andean America in the 16th and 17th centuries, throughout his life set the utmost value on the fact that he descended matrilineally from Atahualpa Yupanqui and from the last Inca emperor, Huayna Capac. Thus, both in his person and in his creative work he combined different cultural worlds in a polylogical way. (1) Two painters boasted that very same Inca descent - they were the last two great masters of the Cuzco school of painting, which over several generations of artists had been an institution of excellent renown and prestige, and whose economic downfall and artistic marginalization was vividly described by the French traveller Paul Mancoy in 1837.(2) While, during the 18th century, Cuzco school paintings were still much cherished and sought after, by the beginning of the following century the elite of Lima regarded them as behind the times and provincial, committed to an 'indigenous' painting style. The artists from up-country - such was the reproach - could not keep up with the modern forms of seeing and creating, as exemplified by European paragons. Yet, just how 'provincial', truly, was this art? T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 156 Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413669 SN - 1866-8380 IS - 156 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Khal Torabully BT - “Coolies” and corals, or living in transarchipelagic worlds T2 - Journal of the African Literature Association N2 - Khal Torabully creates poetry and a poetics for those forgotten by history, a theorem and theory which construct a tangible and sensual landscape, allowing for an empathetically shared experience and expressing the dramatic climax of the third phase of accelerated globalization: a project that would be unthinkable without the cultural theory we now have at our disposal in the present surge of globalization. In his poetic and theoretical texts, he has paid a literary tribute to the Coolies, usually from India, but also China and many other countries. Given Torabully’s Mauritian roots, but also the worldwide migration of the Coolies themselves, the world of Coolitude is culturally and linguistically extremely diverse, making the act of translation very relevant and giving it multiple meanings. Literature brings these forgotten lives back to life and allows us to share this experience thanks to its aesthetic force. It traces the movements, which sketch trajectories functioning to this day as palimpsest-like vectors of our own paths and trajectories. The author of Chair Corail, Fragments Coolies breaks the chain of mutual exclusions, replacing it with a type of writing belonging to a wider array of expressive modes which in diasporic situations unleash polylogical and archipelagic imaginaries. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 149 Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412609 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Chronicle of a Clash Foretold? : ArabAmerican Dimensions and Transareal Relations in Gabriel GarcÖa Márquez and Elias Khoury Y1 - 2006 SN - 3-86527-289-4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - The World in Our Head : Images and After-Images of the City in the Works of Albert Cohen Y1 - 2003 SN - 0-8014-4021-1 ; ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Literature as knowledge for living, literary studies as science for living Y1 - 2010 SN - 0030-8129 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Toward a Polylogical Philology of the Literatures of the World JF - Modern language quarterly : a journal of literary history N2 - As the world cannot be adequately understood from the vantage point of a single language, the literatures of the world can no longer be trimmed to a single world literature in the Goethean sense. This recognition bodes well for the future of philology and of literary production. Through multiperspectival writing, knowledge of life may be attainable without being reduced to a single political, medial, cartographical, geocultural, or aesthetic logic. As a laboratory for polylogical thinking, literature does not represent reality, as Erich Auerbach put it. Rather, it represents multiple lived, experienced, or relivable realities. Whoever is open to a polylogical reception of the literatures of the world can perceive and experience how life knowledge transforms into lived knowledge and how knowledge for survival turns into knowledge for living together. However, literature can be more than it is only if it stays aware of the void, of lack, of privation, of the interminable: aware of the end that never is an end. Such a planetary concept of the literatures of the world offers valuable opportunities to all those who do not fall into the trap of contenting themselves with a supposed abundance of text. KW - literatures of the world KW - multiperspectival writing KW - polylogical philology KW - transculturation KW - knowledge for living Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3464841 SN - 0026-7929 VL - 77 SP - 143 EP - 173 PB - Duke Univ. Press CY - Durham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Mobile melemverdener : for en transareal (litteratur) videnskab Y1 - 2008 SN - 978- 87-7934-333-7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - "I carry a wound across my chest" : the body in Marti's poetry Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Towards World Science? Humboldtian Science, World Concepts, and Transarea Studies Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-84-8489-303-5 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Magic Screens. Biombos, Namban Art, the Art of Globalization and Education between China, Japan, India, Spanish America and Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries JF - European review : interdisciplinary journal of the humanities and sciences of the Academia Europea N2 - Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca, for several centuries doubtlessly the most discussed and most eminent writer of Andean America in the 16th and 17th centuries, throughout his life set the utmost value on the fact that he descended matrilineally from Atahualpa Yupanqui and from the last Inca emperor, Huayna Cápac. Thus, both in his person and in his creative work he combined different cultural worlds in a polylogical way.1 Two painters boasted that very same Inca descent – they were the last two great masters of the Cuzco school of painting, which over several generations of artists had been an institution of excellent renown and prestige, and whose economic downfall and artistic marginalization was vividly described by the French traveller Paul Mancoy in 1837.2 While, during the 18th century, Cuzco school paintings were still much cherished and sought after, by the beginning of the following century the elite of Lima regarded them as behind the times and provincial, committed to an ‘indigenous’ painting style. The artists from up-country – such was the reproach – could not keep up with the modern forms of seeing and creating, as exemplified by European paragons. Yet, just how ‘provincial’, truly, was this art? Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1062798715000630 SN - 1062-7987 SN - 1474-0575 VL - 24 SP - 285 EP - 296 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar ED - Pdoksik, Efraim T1 - Exploring the World: On Vectopia BT - Alexander von Humboldt und Adelbert von Chamisso JF - Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-90-04-36117-1 SP - 214 EP - 242 PB - Brill CY - Leiden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar ED - Spies, Paul ED - Tintemann, Ute ED - Mende, Jan T1 - Wilhelm & Alexander von Humboldt or: Humboldtian Science JF - Wilhelm und Alexander von Humboldt - Berlin Cosmos T2 - Wilhelm & Alexander von Humboldt oder: Die Humboldtsche Wissenschaft Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-86832-559-1 SP - 19 EP - 23 PB - Wienand CY - Köln ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Wandering Networks : Euphoria and the Dead Ends of Science in Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative Y1 - 2005 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - The fascination of Humboldt : Humboldtian science as a model for the future Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Saga-Like World-Fractals: João Guimarães Rosa, "Sagarana", and the Literatures of the World JF - Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures N2 - This article presents and discusses João Guimarães Rosa as an outstanding Brazilian author whose literary work, especially Sagarana, expresses aesthetically different ways of life-forms between human beings, animals, plants, and landscapes. Movement and transformations are the basic principles in which the melody of prose expresses itself as a language in and as motion. Although based in Brazilian culture, Rosa shows the conviviality of different logics which are not reduced to one myth of the Brazilian people, but produce multiple ways of co-existence between different life-forms and culture narratives. The translingual title “Sagarana” already alludes to the transitions between two languages, regions, and cultures: the Icelandic “saga-” and the Tupic-Word “rana” which means “similar” or “alike.” The interpretation figures out the correlation of different provenances (“Herkünfte”) which emerge from Rosa’s craft of storytelling. In its center, the Sertão arises as a region of nature whose forces are connected with the life of human beings. As fractal of the world, it symbolizes Brazilian relations as a world of its own and at the same time as a part of the world of others. From this point of view the essay turns world literature upside down: it emphasizes on the one hand that the epoch of world literature since Goethe has come to an end and that the meridian has shifted to Latin America. On the other hand it can be observed that the lusophonic world between Brazil and Angola, Portugal and Kap Verde develops new perspectives on literatures of the world beyond the fixed coordinations of periphery and center. Rosa’s ways of world making already shift the perspective from the local to the global as a miniatured model of a universe which reveals interpretations of a better understanding of the world as world fractals. KW - João Guimarães Rosa KW - world literature KW - literatures of the world KW - Latin American literature KW - Brazilian literature KW - Sagarana Y1 - 2020 VL - IV IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 21 PB - Hunan Normal University CY - Changsha ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - From the Transarchipélique Antilles BT - the Collitude of Khal Torabully JF - Ameena Gafoor Institute N2 - Ottmar Ette: TransArea : a literary history of globalization. Translated by Mark W. Person, Berlin, Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2016. - 356 S. - ISBN 978-3-11-047773-3 Y1 - 2020 UR - https://ameenagafoorinstitute.org/from-the-transarchiplique-antilles-the-coolitude-of-khal-torabully ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Towards a polylogical Philology of the Literatures of the World JF - Abralic Y1 - 2020 UR - https://abralic.org.br/downloads/2020/ottmar-ette-filologia-das-literaturas.pdf ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Gender Trouble : José Martí y Juana Borrero Y1 - 2003 SN - 3-925867-67-8 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Literature on the move T3 - Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Y1 - 2003 SN - 90-420-1155-6 VL - 68 PB - Rodopi CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Everything is interrelated, even the errors in the system : Alexander von Humboldt and globalization Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Archeologies of Globalization : European Reflections on Two Phases of Accelerated Globalization in Cornelius de Pauw, Georg Forster, Guillaume-Thomas Raynal and Alexander von Humboldt Y1 - 2012 UR - http://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/article/view/4/19 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Writing-between-worlds BT - transarea studies and the literatures-without-a-fixed-abode T3 - Mimesis ; 64 Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-11-046109-1 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Nanofilologia y teoria literaria T2 - MicroBerlín - de minificciones y microrrelatos Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-84-8489-929-7 SP - 51 EP - 84 PB - Iberoamericana CY - Madrid ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Pride and conviviality - pride in conviviality BT - the rise and recognition of a prospective force T2 - Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research (Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft) N2 - Pride is linked to conviviality, to the practice of life-with-an-other, and to an awareness of the limitations of the life forms and life norms which guide and regulate the life of culturally, socially, and historically defined communities. Assuming this link, pride in living-together and conviviality appear as concepts creating a framework for future perspectives. But these concepts need a space in which they can unfold critically and confidently with a view to the future. For millennia, the literatures of the world have created this space of simulation and experimentation in which knowledge of how-to-live-with-an-other has been put down on paper through the open-ended tradition of writing. It is the space of the life forms and life norms of conviviality: it offers us prospective knowledge for the future by translating the imaginable into the thinkable, and the readable into the livable. KW - pride KW - conviviality KW - inclusion KW - patriotism KW - literatures of the world Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-90-04-41035-0 SN - 978-90-04-40828-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004410350_006 SN - 0929-6999 VL - 200 SP - 121 EP - 155 PB - Brill Rodopi CY - Leiden [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Sex Literally Revisited : being-a-body and Having-a-Body in Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Luisa Futoransky and Juan Manuel de Prada Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - The West revisited - Max Aub : writing (while) in motion Y1 - 2003 SN - 0034-8635 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - The centennial of Max Aub : Introduction Y1 - 2003 SN - 0034-8635 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - European literature(s) in the global context Y1 - 2009 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - TransTropics: Alexander von Humboldt and Hemispheric Constructions Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-938944-63-9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Worldwide : Living in Transarchipelagic Worlds Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-8-48-489670-8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Urbanity and literature - cities as transareal spaces of movement in Assia Djebar, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar and Cecile Wajsbrot JF - European review : interdisciplinary journal of the humanities and sciences of the Academia Europea N2 - Transarea studies focus upon spaces as created by the movements that criss-cross them. From this point of view, from its very beginnings, literature is closely interrelated with a vectorial (and much less with a purely spatial) conception of history - and with urbanity, which plays a decisive role in Gilgamesh's travels through a (narrative) cosmos centered upon the city of Uruk. This article explores the city as a transareal space of movement in three examples of literature, with no fixed abode, around the turn of the millennium, i.e. Assia Djebar's Les Nuits de Strasbourg, Emine Sevgi Oezdamar's Istanbul-Berlin Trilogy, and Cecile Wajsbrot's L'ile aux musees. These three writers project, in a very specific way, cities in motion as anagrammatic and fractal structures. Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S106279871100010X SN - 1062-7987 VL - 19 IS - 3 SP - 367 EP - 383 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Arab-Caribbean origins : on the transareal dimension in Amin Maalouf's literary work. Coming home to the familiar unknown Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-3-631-56716-6 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Literatures without a Fixed Abode : figures of Vectorial Imagination Beyond the Dichotomies of National and World Literature Y1 - 2006 SN - 3-86527-289-4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Gender Trouble : José Martí and Juana Borrero Y1 - 2006 SN - 0-7391-1224-4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - La polisemia prohibida : la recepción de José Martí como sismógrafo de la vida política y cultural Y1 - 1995 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Alexander von Humboldt BT - life and work in motion JF - Offene Horizonte : Schätze zu Humboldts Reisewegen Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-933924-25-4 SP - 20 EP - 21 PB - Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim CY - Pforzheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Welterleben/Weiterleben BT - On Vectopia in Georg Forster, Alexander von Humboldt, and Adelbert von Chamisso JF - Daphnis : Zeitschrift für mittlere deutsche Literatur N2 - Welterleben and Weiterleben are what determine the second globalization (of four previously explored) whose constantly accelerating dynamic, vectorization, this essay explores. On the basis of selected writings of Georg Forster, Alexander von Humboldt, and Adelbert von Chamisso, the author highlights the increasing speed with which knowledge, especially in the experiential sciences, is produced and disseminated following the routes of ever-widening trade speeded along by globalization. The notion of ‘vectopia’ stands for the connection of utopia and uchronia in space and time in such a way that the experience of the world, expanded worldwide, contains within it a Weiter-Leben, a ‘living-further’ that is to be understood first in a spatial, and not yet temporal, sense, of what Forster called Erfahrungswissen, or ‘experiential knowledge.’ Vectopia, as elaborated here, has a material dimension that relates to the physical person, the body, the experience of the world that cannot occur without the constant changing of place, without a journeying that is again and again recommenced. Vectopia develops the projection of a life not from space or from time alone, but by their combination. Vectopia is more than a concept, it is a thought-figure: it is vitally connected to life, and thus a life-figure. It opens itself to a type of knowledge that stands almost at the threshold of a further life, indeed, of a Weiterleben that, opening itself to a ‘living-onward,’ resides beyond space, time, and movement. KW - travel literature KW - transdisciplinary KW - accelerated globalization KW - experiential knowledge KW - Weiter-Leben Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/18796583-04503002 SN - 0300-693X SN - 1879-6583 VL - 45 IS - 3-4 SP - 343 EP - 388 PB - Editions Rodopi BV CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - TransArea Tangier BT - the city and the literatures of the world JF - Re-mapping World Literature Writing, Book Markets and Epistemologies between Latin America and the Global South / Escrituras, mercados y epistemologías entre América Latina y el Sur Global Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-11-054957-7 SN - 978-3-11-054952-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110549577-019 SN - 2513-0757 SP - 283 EP - 321 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Literature without fixed residence : Insularity, history and sociocultural dynamic in XXth century Cuba N2 - From its very beginnings, Cuban literature has been a literature with no fixed abode: written between Cuba and Mexico (Jose Maria Heredia), Cuba and Spain (Gertrudis Gomez de Avellanedo), Cuba and the US. (Cirilo Villaverde), or between Cuba, Europe and the Americas (Jose Marti), but to mention the outstanding figures in Cuba's 19(th) Century. This article tries to unfold and develop the consequences of this new perspective by insisting on the specific "frictional" character of Cuban literature and culture today Y1 - 2005 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Alexander von Humboldt : the American Hemisphere and Trans-Area Studies Y1 - 2005 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Listening to the jungle or life as sound : Alexander von Humboldt's "Noctirnal Animal Life in the Jungle" and the Humboldt effect Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-3-86821-343-0 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Everything is interrelated, even the errors in the system : Alexander von Humboldtd and globalization Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-0-415-69787-3 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Not just brought about by chance : reflections on globalisation in Cornelius de Pauw and Alexander von Humboldt N2 - This essay shows in what sense Alexander von Humboldt created a new discourse on the New World. In his view of the Americas, he was able to subvert the dominantly spatial history of the 'new hemisphere' found in Cornelius de Pauw or Guillaume-Thomas Raynal by introducing dynamic and vectorial structures that allow us to focus on the Americas not as 'the other' but as a highly interrelated part of the world. Humboldt's Weltbewusstsein ('world consciousness') develops a new discourse that can be best understood as a complex answer to the second period of accelerated globalisation. Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2011.537501 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - The scientist as Weltbürger BT - Alexander von Humboldt and the beginning of cosmopolitics JF - HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies KW - Berlin KW - Kosmopolit KW - Weltbürger Y1 - 2001 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34546 SN - 2568-3543 SN - 1617-5239 VL - II IS - 2 SP - 41 EP - 62 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER -