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 […]
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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 […]
a chapter on London post-2011 and the representations (and poetics) of riots in Oliver v. Knebel Doebritz & Ralf Schneider (eds.) London post-2010 in British Literature and Culture, Brill / Rodopi 2017, pp.19-38. chapter link
Conference Program Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Popular Culture Organised by Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt, Michael Butter, Wolfgang Hochbruck and Nicole Falkenhayner for the SFB 948 “Heroes, Heroisms and Heroisations”, University of Freiburg, Germany Thursday, September 28, 2017 From 14.00 Coffee, Registration at FRIAS Freiburg 15.00 Introduction 15.00 Barbara Korte […]
