Translingual Encounters: Freedom, Civic Virtue, and the Social Organism in Liang Qichao’s Reading of Kant / by Camila YaDeau | TRANSIT
Translingual Encounters: Freedom, Civic Virtue, and the Social Organism in Liang Qichao’s Reading of Kant TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Camila YaDeau [Related Links: “Introduction” by Andrew Blough and Jonas Teupert] Download PDF Abstract From 1903 to 1904 while exiled in Japan, Liang Qichao (1873-1929), an intellectual and political theorist of late-Qing and early-Republican China, […]
Deterritorialized Travels: Notes on World, Earth, and Literature in the Work of Deleuze and Guattari / by Florian Scherübl | TRANSIT
Deterritorialized Travels: Notes on World, Earth, and Literature in the Work of Deleuze and Guattari TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Florian Scherübl [Related Links: “Introduction” by Andrew Blough and Jonas Teupert] Download PDF Abstract Starting with the works of Edmund Husserl, phenomenological philosophy occupied itself with questions of foundation. The German word Grund’s denotations of both […]
Night Bioscope / Yoko Tawada / translated by Aaron Carpenter and Jon Cho-Polizzi | TRANSIT
“Night Bioscope”[1] by Yoko Tawada TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Translated by Aaron Carpenter and Jon Cho-Polizzi [Related Links: Aaron Carpenter and Jon Cho-Polizzi’s introduction; Deniz Göktürk’s section introduction; Elizabeth Sun’s translation “Ten Years After Fukushima”] Download PDF A man stood before me, he pointed with his pointer finger approximately at the place where his […]
Das deutsche Kolonialerbe in der Jugendkolonialliteratur der BRD und der DDR / by Joseph Kebe-Nguema | TRANSIT
Das deutsche Kolonialerbe in der Jugendkolonialliteratur der BRD und der DDR TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Joseph Kebe-Nguema [Related Links: “Introduction” by Andrew Blough and Jonas Teupert] Download PDF Abstract Dieser Beitrag setzt sich mit der Behandlung des deutschen Kolonialerbes in der Jugendkolonialliteratur der DDR und der BRD auseinander. Da die untersuchten Werke – genauso […]
Translator Introduction / by Aaron Carpenter and Jon Cho-Polizzi | TRANSIT
Translator Introduction TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Aaron Carpenter and Jon Cho-Polizzi [Related Links: The translation of Yoko Tawada’s “Night Bioscope” by Aaron Carpenter and Jon Cho-Polizzi; Deniz Göktürk’s section introduction; Elizabeth Sun’s translation “Ten Years After Fukushima”] Download PDF Yoko Tawada’s short story “Bioskoop der Nacht” from her 2002 collection Überseezungen remains prescient in a […]
Introduction: Traveling Forms (Global German Studies) / by Andrew Blough and Jonas Teupert | TRANSIT
Introduction: Traveling Forms (Global German Studies) TRANSIT Vol. 13, No.1 Andrew Blough and Jonas Teupert Download PDF The present Covid-19 pandemic has brought the contradictions of our global existence into sharp relief. While the spread of the virus across national and continental borders has raised the awareness of global entanglements, the resultant closure of national […]
Translation Terminable and Interminable: Psychoanalysis Between Vienna and Calcutta / by Candela Potente | TRANSIT
Translation Terminable and Interminable: Psychoanalysis Between Vienna and Calcutta TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Candela Potente [Related Links: “Introduction” by Andrew Blough and Jonas Teupert] Download PDF Abstract Psychoanalysis, as Carl Schorske claimed, was a child of its own epoch. Marked by the political situation in Austria, Victorian moral codes, the German language and its […]
“Biohaus”: The Bauhaus and the Biopolitics of Global Space / by Aron Korozs | TRANSIT
“Biohaus”: The Bauhaus and the Biopolitics of Global Space TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Aron Korozs [Related Links: “Introduction” by Andrew Blough and Jonas Teupert] Download PDF Abstract Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, art historians and urban studies scholars have been pleading for a more nuanced analysis of the Bauhaus in order to […]
The Hour of Assembly / Zafer Şenocak / translated by Oliver Arter and Elizabeth Sun | TRANSIT
The Hour of Assembly by Zafer Şenocak TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Translated by Oliver Arter and Elizabeth Sun [Related Links: Deniz Göktürk’s introduction; a collaborative translation of Zafer Şenocak’s “The Other Side of Things” by Deniz Göktürk’s seminar; Kristin Dickinson’s translations of Zafer Şenocak’s “Empty Archives – Lost Letters” and “Church Bells in Istanbul”; […]
Church Bells in Istanbul / Zafer Şenocak / translated by Kristin Dickinson | TRANSIT
“Church Bells in Istanbul” by Zafer Şenocak TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Translated by Kristin Dickinson Excerpt from Das Fremde, das in jedem wohnt: Wie Unterschiede unsere Gesellschaft zusammenhalten [The Foreign Dwells in Everyone: How Differences Keep Our Society Together] (Hamburg: Edition Koerber, 2018) [Related Links: Deniz Göktürk’s introduction; Kristin Dickinson’s translation of “Empty Archives […]