Asylum By Heribert Prantl Translated By Annika Orich Download PDF The tragedy of Lampedusa has a prelude—a “prologue,” as it is properly called in the dramatic genre of tragedy. This prologue began 22 years ago, in August 1991, right in … Continue reading
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Diversity as Social Utopia By Özkan Ezli and Gisela Staupe Translated by Jillian Saucier Download PDF Occasion for the Book: The Exhibition Why is the German Hygiene Museum showing a large special exhibition with the title “Das neue Deutschland. Von Migration … Continue reading
The Madonna in the Fur Coat By Sabahattin Ali Translated by David Gramling and Ilker Hepkaner Download PDF Abstract: With the consent of the original rights-holders Onk Ajans Instanbul and the author’s daughter Filiz Ali; translation rights for the novel in its entirety … Continue reading
Translating Surfaces: A Dual Critique of Modernity in Sabahattin Ali’s Kürk Mantolu Madonna Kristin Dickinson Download PDF Abstract: Introduction to David Gramling and Ilke Hepkaner’s translation of The Madonna in the Fur Coat. A trailblazer in the genre of social realism … Continue reading
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Network Politics, Wireless Protocols, and Public Space Erik Born This paper unravels the implications of wireless technology (e.g., GPS, RFID, Wi-Fi) for our understanding of public space in the digital age. I argue that the current push for ubiquitous connectivity, … Continue reading
Digital Reading and the Post-Forensic Imagination Lutz Koepnick New media theory and criticism remain deeply entangled in what Matthew Kirschenbaum has called the medial ideology: the assumption that the digital age knows neither of material forms of inscription nor of … Continue reading
Entertaining Germany in the Digital Age: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Markus Flohr’s Wo samstags immer Sonntag ist (2011) Isabelle Hesse As the recent controversy surrounding the publication of Günter Grass’s poem ‘Was gesagt werden muss’ (2012) confirms, Germany’s relationship with Israel … Continue reading
Mimicking the Avant-Garde: Intellectual and Artistic Activism in the Digital Age Patrizia C. McBride The paper examines the recurrence of formal structures and tropes drawn from the European avant-garde (Futurism, Dadaism, German and Russian Constructivism) in the theorization of a … Continue reading
Intersections of Music, Politics, and Digital Media: Bandista Ela Gezen Bandista, a self-described music collective, was founded in Istanbul in 2006. Through framing texts provided on their website – in Turkish, English, Spanish and German – the band proposes to … Continue reading
Computer Poems and Codework: Redefining Subjectivity for the Digital Age Kurt Beals This paper considers how poets have responded to the changing function of language in the digital age, and specifically how they have developed models of hybrid subjectivity to … Continue reading