@book{OPUS4-63303, title = {Trouble Every Day : Zum Schrecken des Allt{\"a}glichen}, editor = {Hordych, Anna and Ungelenk, Johannes}, publisher = {Brill Fink}, address = {Paderborn}, isbn = {978-3-8467-6721-4}, doi = {10.30965/9783846767214}, pages = {XXXII, 240}, year = {2024}, abstract = {Der Band ist den existenziellen Turbulenzen gewidmet, die dem Menschen nicht als katastrophales Ereignis widerfahren, sondern seinen unentrinnbaren Alltag formen. Egal ob Verschiebungen im universit{\"a}ren Selbstverst{\"a}ndnis (Vinken), Umgang mit geschlechtlicher Abweichung (Ungelenk; Hordych), Br{\"u}chen im Familiengef{\"u}ge (Brook; Goldmann), Kampf gegen Abholzung (Nixon), technische Total{\"u}berwachung im Alltag (S{\o}ilen/Maurer), narratologische Erkundungen von Zeit oder Gattung (Horst; Pierstorff; Reisener), stets erweist sich scheinbar banaler Alltag als erstaunlich produktiver Ausgangspunkt f{\"u}r gesellschaftliche, k{\"u}nstlerische und denkerische Prozesse. Das Gew{\"o}hnliche des Alltags ist nicht l{\"a}nger bloß statische Folie f{\"u}r einbrechende Ereignisse - es ist selbst als generatives Werden nobilitiert, das nun aber doppelb{\"o}dige Wertung annimmt: Alltag verliert im Zuge einer Philosophie der Moderne das Verl{\"a}ssliche (H{\"u}sch; Khurana), wird bedrohlich; zugleich bietet diese neue Unruhe des Alltags, sein "trouble", aber auch Chancen f{\"u}r Ver{\"a}nderung und feministisch-kritische oder k{\"u}nstlerische Intervention.}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Vassilevski2023, author = {Vassilevski, Ekaterina}, title = {Hegels Phantasie}, series = {Edition Medienwissenschaft}, volume = {107}, journal = {Edition Medienwissenschaft}, publisher = {Transcript}, address = {Bielefeld}, isbn = {978-3-8394-6959-0}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {175}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Als »Zwischenreich«, »Drittes« oder »Mitte« bezeichnet, kommt der Imagination seit ihren Anf{\"a}ngen in der Antike die Rolle eines Mediums zu. Gleichzeitig bleibt ihr medialer Aspekt durchgehend ambivalent und prek{\"a}r. Es ist Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, der die Imagination nicht mehr als subjektives Verm{\"o}gen versteht, sondern als Kraft der »Ent{\"a}ußerung« und sie somit medial denkt. In einer bislang wenig beachteten Passage aus Hegels dritter Enzyklop{\"a}die von 1830 legt Ekaterina Vassilevski nicht nur die implizite Medialit{\"a}t der Imagination frei, sondern auch den in Hegels Denken verborgenen Begriff des Medialen.}, language = {de} } @misc{Pflaumer2023, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Pflaumer, Valerie}, title = {Haunted houses, haunted selves - feminist readings of uncanny domesticity}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-57566}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-575664}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {71}, year = {2023}, abstract = {The aesthetic phenomenon of the uncanny in literature and art is a spatial and gendered aesthetic concept, which is expressed in the spatial characteristics of a literary or photographic narrative. The intention of this thesis is to evaluate the entanglement of the uncanny, space, domesticity and femininity in the context of Gothic literature and photography. These four objects can only be read in their interplay with each other and how they each function as structural principles in the framework of Gothic fiction and photography. The literary texts, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" (1892) and Shirley Jackson's "The Lovely House" (1950) and The Haunting of Hill House (1959) as well as Francesca Woodman's self-portraits that will be discussed further share one particular quality; they use the haunted house motif to express the protagonist's psychological state by transferring mental hauntings onto the narrative's spatial layer. The establishment of a connection between the concepts at hand, the uncanny, domesticity, spatiality and femininity, is the basis for the first half of the thesis. What follows is an overview of how domestic politics and gendered perceptions of and behaviors in spaces are expressed in the Gothic mode in particular. In the literary analysis two ways in which the Freudian uncanny constitutes itself in the haunted house narrative, first the house as the site of repetition and second the house as a stand-in for the maternal body, are examined. Drawing from Gernot B{\"o}hme's and Martina L{\"o}w's theoretic work on space and atmosphere the thesis focuses on the different aesthetic strategies that produce the uncanny atmosphere associated with the Gothic haunted house. The female subjects at the narratives' center are in the ambiguous process of disappearing or becoming, this (dis)appearing act is facilitated by their haunted surroundings. In the case of the unnamed narrator in "Wall-Paper" her suppressed rage at her husband is mirrored in the strangled woman trapped inside the yellow wallpaper. Once she recognizes her doppelganger the union of her two selves takes place in the short story's dramatic climax. In Shirley Jackson's literary works the haunted houses, protagonists in themselves, entrap, transform, and ultimately devour their female daughter-victims. The haunted houses are symbols, means and places of the continuous tradition of female entrapment within the domestic sphere, be it as wives, mothers or daughters. In Francesca Woodman's self-portraits the themes of creation/destruction and becoming/disappearing within the ruinous (post)domestic sphere are acted out by the fragmented and blurry female figure who intriguingly oscillates between self-empowerment and submission to destruction.}, language = {en} } @book{Ungelenk2023, author = {Ungelenk, Johannes}, title = {Touching at a Distance}, series = {Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy : ECSSP}, journal = {Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy : ECSSP}, publisher = {Edinburgh University Press}, address = {Edinburgh}, isbn = {978-1-4744-9784-8}, doi = {10.1515/9781474497848}, pages = {296}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Studies the capacity of Shakespeare's plays to touch and think about touchBased on plays from all major genres: Hamlet, The Tempest, Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing and Troilus and CressidaCentres on creative, close readings of Shakespeare's plays, which aim to generate critical impulses for the 21st century readerBrings Shakespeare Studies into touch with philosophers and theoreticians from a range of disciplinary areas - continental philosophy, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, sociology, phenomenology, law, linguistics: Friedrich Nietzsche, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Niklas Luhmann, Hans Blumenberg, Carl Schmitt, J. L. AustinTheatre has a remarkable capacity: it touches from a distance. The audience is affected, despite their physical separation from the stage. The spectators are moved, even though the fictional world presented to them will never come into direct touch with their real lives. Shakespeare is clearly one of the master practitioners of theatrical touch. As the study shows, his exceptional dramaturgic talent is intrinsically connected with being one of the great thinkers of touch. His plays fathom the complexity and power of a fascinating notion - touch as a productive proximity that is characterised by unbridgeable distance - which philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray and Jean-Luc Nancy have written about, centuries later. By playing with touch and its metatheatrical implications, Shakespeare raises questions that make his theatrical art point towards modernity: how are communities to form when traditional institutions begin to crumble? What happens to selfhood when time speeds up, when oneness and timeless truth can no longer serve as reliable foundations? What is the role and the capacity of language in a world that has lost its seemingly unshakeable belief and trust in meaning? How are we to conceive of the unthinkable extremes of human existence - birth and death - when the religious orthodoxy slowly ceases to give satisfactory explanations? Shakespeare's theatre not only prompts these questions, but provides us with answers. They are all related to touch, and they are all theatrical at their core: they are argued and performed by the striking experience of theatre's capacities to touch - at a distance}, language = {en} } @article{Ungelenk2022, author = {Ungelenk, Johannes}, title = {Kiss me (not!), Cressida - or: the social touch of lips and tongue}, series = {Arcadia : international journal of literary culture}, volume = {57}, journal = {Arcadia : international journal of literary culture}, number = {1}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {0003-7982}, doi = {10.1515/arcadia-2022-9051}, pages = {25 -- 46}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The article is dedicated to the problem of social bonds that is negotiated in Troilus and Cressida. Troilus and Ulysses embody an old, traditional order of the world that is out of joint, while Cressida's behaviour and her way of interacting indicate a different and new regime of social regulation that is about to take over. With its complex superposition of (touches of) love and war, Troilus and Cressida brings together rituals of touch, anarchic speech acts, and a gendered perspective on the world that associates touch and temporality with 'frail' femininity and temptation. With unrivalled intensity, the play puts to the spectator that the basic condition of touch, i.e. exposing oneself to another, entails an incalculable risk. Hector tragically falls for the vulnerability inherent in touch and the audience suffers with him because they share this existential precondition on which modern society is 'founded.' The gloomy, inescapable atmosphere of societal crisis that Troilus and Cressida creates emphasises the fact that the fragility of touch is not to be overcome. The fractions - no matter whether Greek, Trojan, or those of loving couples - cannot simply be reunited to form a new, authentic entity. Generating at least some form of social cohesion therefore remains a challenge.}, language = {en} } @article{OPUS4-57817, title = {Begr{\"a}bnis der Toten}, series = {Schreibheft : Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Literatur und kulturelle Initiativen}, volume = {98}, journal = {Schreibheft : Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Literatur und kulturelle Initiativen}, publisher = {Rigodon-Verl.}, address = {Essen}, issn = {0174-2132}, pages = {33 -- 34}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Es handelt sich um eine Neu{\"u}bersetzung des ersten Teils von T.S. Eliots "The Waste Land", erschienen als Teil eines Chors von Neu{\"u}bersetzungen im vom Schreibheft veranstalteten Dossier anl{\"a}sslich des Hundertj{\"a}hrigen Jubil{\"a}ums des Langgedichts.}, language = {de} } @book{Ungelenk2021, author = {Ungelenk, Johannes}, title = {Ber{\"u}hren Denken}, series = {LiteraturForschung}, journal = {LiteraturForschung}, number = {40}, editor = {Erwig, Andrea and Ungelenk, Johannes}, publisher = {Kadmos}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-86599-497-4}, pages = {314}, year = {2021}, abstract = {›Theorie‹ geht etymologisch auf ›Anschauen‹ zur{\"u}ck. Der Theoretiker gilt gemeinhin als distanzierter Zuschauer. Diese distanzierte Position wird hier hinterfragt. Die Beitr{\"a}ge st{\"u}tzen sich dabei auf eine theoretische Tradition, die sich am Tastsinn als Korrektiv des Sehsinns orientiert. Taktilen Erfahrungsdimensionen wie dem Ber{\"u}hren wird schon lange eine idealisierte ›unmittelbare Wahrnehmung‹ jenseits von begrifflicher Abstraktion zugeschrieben. Die Autorinnen und Autoren beleuchten dagegen die komplizierte Verwandtschaft von Ber{\"u}hren und Denken und die begrifflichen Verwicklungen und Potenziale des Ber{\"u}hrens. Es werden nicht nur unterschiedliche Konzepte von Ber{\"u}hrung in Philosophie und Kunst betrachtet, sondern auch theoretische Denk- und Schreibformen erkundet, die selbst ›Ber{\"u}hrungen‹ mit sich bringen.}, language = {de} } @book{OPUS4-53633, title = {Ber{\"u}hren Lesen}, editor = {Sohns, Hanna and Ungelenk, Johannes}, publisher = {August Verlag}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-941360-84-6}, pages = {248}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Ber{\"u}hren changiert zwischen Buchst{\"a}blichkeit und Metaphorik. Gegen{\"u}ber dem Distanzsinn des Sehens wird mit dem Ber{\"u}hren eine gr{\"o}ßere Unmittelbarkeit assoziiert. Doch die M{\"o}glichkeit des Kontaktes ist von Beginn an prek{\"a}r. Das Ber{\"u}hren kann sich selbst nicht ber{\"u}hren. In das Ber{\"u}hren schiebt sich ein Dazwischen, das den Entzug dieser ambivalenten Figur bedingt. Diese aporetische Bestimmung des Ber{\"u}hrens begr{\"u}ndet das Unternehmen des Bandes. Jeder Eintrag wiederholt eine Bewegung des Ber{\"u}hrens: In einzelnen Text- oder Bildlekt{\"u}ren werden Spuren verfolgt, die das Ber{\"u}hren im stetigen Sich-Entziehen in seinen mannigfaltigen Nachbarschaften hinterl{\"a}sst. Die einzelnen Eintr{\"a}ge generieren sich aus diesen Lekt{\"u}ren. Dabei spielt die Nachbarschaft der Eintr{\"a}ge selbst eine tragende Rolle. So wird das Ber{\"u}hren zum produktiven Prinzip von Philologie als einer kollektiven Lekt{\"u}re- und Schreibform.}, language = {de} } @article{Ungelenk2021, author = {Ungelenk, Johannes}, title = {Von der (Un)gleichzeitigkeit des (Un )Gleichzeitigen}, series = {Komparatistik : Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft}, volume = {2019}, journal = {Komparatistik : Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft}, editor = {Simonis, Annette and Sexl, Martin and M{\"u}ller, Alexandra}, publisher = {Aisthesis Verlag}, address = {Bielefeld}, isbn = {978-3-8498-1726-8}, issn = {1432-5306}, pages = {95 -- 120}, year = {2021}, abstract = {„Now is the winter of our discontent | Made glorious summer by this son of York" - mit diesen Worten {\"o}ffnet Shakespeares Richard III. Ein einziger Schau- spieler hat die B{\"u}hne betreten, beginnt zu reden und setzt so, alleine, das St{\"u}ck in Gang - ein Novum f{\"u}r Shakespeare. Die fr{\"u}hneuzeitliche B{\"u}hne ist (fast) leer, die Zuschauer*innen h{\"a}ngen an den Lippen des Protagonisten, um durch seine Worte in die fiktive Welt des Dramas eingef{\"u}hrt zu werden. Gleich mit dem ersten Wort versetzt Richard die Zuschauer*innen in eine andere Gegenwart: Fast wie eine hypnotische Anweisung konstituiert dieses „Now" das Zeit-Raum-Gef{\"u}ge der englischen Rosenkriege. Sich diesem thea- tralen „Now" hinzugeben ist die Aufgabe der Zuschauer*innen. Sie sind auf- gerufen, „to forget (however briefly) everything they have experienced before. What matters is this ‚now', the hic et nunc of the theatre."}, language = {de} } @article{Ungelenk2021, author = {Ungelenk, Johannes}, title = {{\´E}mile Zola and the Literary Language of Climate Change}, series = {Nottingham French Studies}, volume = {60}, journal = {Nottingham French Studies}, number = {3}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2021.0331}, pages = {362 -- 373}, year = {2021}, abstract = {On 7 February 1861, John Tyndall, professor of natural philosophy, delivered a historical lecture: he could prove that different gases absorb heat to a very different degree, which implies that the temperate conditions provided for by the Earth's atmosphere are dependent on its particular composition of gases. The theoretical foundation of climate science was laid. Ten years later, on the other side of the Channel, a young and ambitious author was working on a comprehensive literary analysis of the French era under the Second Empire. {\´E}mile Zola had probably not heard or read of Tyndall's discovery. However, the article makes the case for reading Zola's Rougon-Macquart as an extensive story of climate change. Zola's literary attempts to capture the defining characteristic of the Second Empire led him to the insight that its various milieus were all part of the same 'climate': that of an all-encompassing warming. Zola suggests that this climate is man-made: the economic success of the Second Empire is based on heating, in a literal and metaphorical sense, as well as on stoking the steam-engines and creating the hypertrophic atmosphere of the hothouse that enhances life and maximises turnover and profit. In contrast to Tyndall and his audience, Zola sensed the catastrophic consequences of this warming: the Second Empire was inevitably moving towards a final d{\´e}b{\^a}cle, i.e. it was doomed to perish in local and 'global' climate catastrophes. The article foregrounds the supplementary status of Tyndall's physical and Zola's literary knowledge. As Zola's striking intuition demonstrates, literature appears to have a privileged approach to the phenomenon of man-induced climate change.}, language = {en} }