Remixing Werner Herzog: The Auteur in the Digital Age / by Tara Hottman
Remixing Werner Herzog: The Auteur in the Digital Age Tara Hottman Werner Herzog’s voiceovers have become some of the most well known of cinema—a feat that is quite remarkable for any director. For a German auteur filmmaker known for his search for ecstatic truths and his portrayals of genius, madness, the far ends of the […]
The Fate of Literary Studies in the Age of Digital Hyperculturality / by Rolf J. Goebel
The Fate of Literary Studies in the Age of Digital Hyperculturality Rolf J. Goebel In his study Hyperkulturalität: Kultur und Globalisierung (2005), the Korean-German cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han develops the notion of hyperculturality. Akin to the digital hypertext, hyperculture denotes a rhizomatic space of de-substantialized dispersal; it is without memory; and it celebrates a post-auratic […]
The Documentary Tradition in the Digital Age / by Verena Kick
The Documentary Tradition in the Digital Age Verena Kick This paper asks how and to what extent web-native documentaries (web docs) continue the documentary film tradition in the digital era. Web docs are not documentaries that are streamed online, rather, they operate within the framework of a website. Images, text, audio, video, animation, maps and […]
The Nature of Digital Images / by Carsten Strathausen
The Nature of Digital Images Carsten Strathausen “In the age of computers, the image is not one, meaning not identical with itself.” (D.N. Rodowick) D.N. Rodowick is not the only media theorist to claim that digital images are, essentially, lacking. According to contemporary media theory, what has changed in the digital era is nothing less […]
Kafka and the Kafkaesques: Close Reading Online Fan Fiction / by Bonnie Ruberg
Bonnie Ruberg “Gregor pushed against the door and undid the lock with his jaws. As it swung open… his father grabbed a poker from the fireplace and stabbed it through Gregor’s shell again and again. ‘But what happened to Gregor?!’ shouted his mother. After Gregor died, Gregor’s father sold his monstrous body to the circus.” […]
Artistic and Scholarly Practice in the Digital Age
Artistic and Scholarly Practice in the Digital Age The Division for 20th-century German Studies at the MLA 2014 presents a series of three panels on digital practice, organized by Deniz Göktürk (University of California, Berkeley). You can view abstracts and, even more importantly, provide feedback for each of the papers by clicking on their titles. Digital […]