Category: publications
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Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Popular Culture
edited by Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt and Nicole Falkenhayner Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a global phenomenon both in terms of production and consumption.…
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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…
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Media, Surveillance and Affect
Media, Surveillance and Affect Narrating Feeling-States, 1st Edition By Nicole Falkenhayner Routledge Surveillance has become a part of everyday life: we are surrounded by surveillance technologies in news media, when we go down the street, in the movies, and even carry them in our own pockets in the form of…
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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
Nicole Falkenhayner 