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 foundation and physical ground give rise to numerous foundational concepts such as Husserl´s Lebenswelt and Heidegger´s Erde. Regarding such […]

TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Friederike Eigler Download PDF Abstract The Berlin-based initiative Weiter Schreiben was founded in 2017 by the writer Annika Reich and responds to the daunting refugee situation in contemporary Europe by encouraging collaboration between established and displaced writers living in Germany. The initiative’s objective is to foster multidirectional networks instead of one-directional […]

TRANSIT Vol. 13, No. 1 Sebastian Schuller [Related Links: “Introduction” by Andrew Blough and Jonas Teupert] Download PDF Abstract Conspiracy theory is a truly global form: Conspiracy narratives transgress the boundaries between cultures, media formats, and languages with ease, as is illustrated by the example of the US-American qanon-narrative, which is now a standard reference […]

TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 1 David D. Kim PROLEGOMENON: Distant Reading and Computational Networking in German StudiesPROJECT ONE: WorldLiterature@UCLA: Tracking International Publics with GoethePROJECT TWO: Patterns of the Anthemion: Discovering Networks of Coincidence in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten Download PDF Acknowledgements I would like to thank Deniz Göktürk for approaching me with the idea of […]

David D. Kim and Nickolas de Carlo PROLEGOMENON: Distant Reading and Computational Networking in German Studies PROJECT ONE: WorldLiterature@UCLA: Tracking International Publics with Goethe PROJECT TWO: Patterns of the Anthemion: Discovering Networks of Coincidence in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten Download PDF Acknowledgements We would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers of our essay for […]

David D. Kim and Mark J. Phillips PROLEGOMENON: Distant Reading and Computational Networking in German Studies PROJECT ONE: WorldLiterature@UCLA: Tracking International Publics with Goethe PROJECT TWO: Patterns of the Anthemion: Discovering Networks of Coincidence in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten Download PDF Acknowledgements We thank the two anonymous reviewers for their incisive intervention in our essay. […]