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Permeable Boundaries: Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year and Jurij M. Lotman’s Semiosphere
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ang.2019.137.issue-1/ang-2019-0005/ang-2019-0005.xml?format=INT This article argues that the cultural semiotic model of the “semiosphere” by Lotman (Lotman, Grishakova and Clark 2009) can be productively employed to interpret the complex layers of social order and liminal sociality in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722). Defoe’s text, analysed with a cultural semiotic approach, appears as more… Read more
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Posthumane Helden
a collaborative article I wrote with Kerstin Fest and Maria-Xenia Hardt on posthuman heroic figures is out on the online compendium of the collaborative research centre “heroes, heroization, heroisms”. You can read it or download the pdf here: Posthumane Helden Read more
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Master Student Workshop “Experiencing Surveillance in Fiction and Theory”
Surveillance, a fully pervasive feature of today’s lifeworlds, challenges borders of self and other, of institution, freedom and development. Surveillance technology has long since experienced a function creep from its intended, managerial uses into uses as devices that structure narratives and express emotions, as in the well-worn split screen of films that employ surveillance camera… Read more
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Heroism as a phenomenon in global popular culture – international conference in Freiburg, 28-30 September 2017
Organized by Michael Butter (Tübingen), Nicole Falkenhayner, Wolfgang Hochbruck, Barbara Korte (Freiburg) and Simon Wendt (Frankfurt) In an age of globalization and transnationalism, heroes transcend their cultural spheres of origin and are re-rooted, adapted and translated in new local contexts across the world. We understand (male and female) heroes as a phenomenon of exceptionality that… Read more