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Project cultures of anticipation now closed
With my latest publication, “Sensing the Future in Contemporary Anglophone Literature” https://doi.org/10.1353/ari.2024.a915992, my research project on cultures of anticipation is now closed for the time being. The project, which I started in 2017, has been focusing on analysing how different cultures in the early modern period and in the 21st…
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New Article in ariel: A Review of International English Literature
Sensing the Future in Contemporary Anglophone Literature Due to contemporary experiences of climate crisis, large-scale migration, and global ruptures such as the spread of COVID-19, futurity has become newly problematized in both public discourse and critical discussions in literary and cultural studies. This article argues that literary texts contribute to…
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Futurity as an Effect of Playing Horizon: Zero Dawn.
Nicole Falkenhayner humanities 2021, 10(2), 72; DOI:10.3390/h1002072 Futurity denotes the quality or state of being in the future. This article explores futurity as an effect of response, as an aesthetic experience of playing a narrative video game. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the ways in…
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Heroes in Contemporary British Culture: Television Drama and Reflections of a Nation in Change
Barbara Korte and Nicole Falkenhayner Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies, Taylor and Francis, 2021 link to book’s page on Routledge site https://www.routledge.com/Heroes-in-Contemporary-British-Culture-Television-Drama-and-Reflections/Korte-Falkenhayner/p/book/9780367653668 This book explores how British culture is negotiating heroes and heroisms in the twenty-first century. It posits a nexus between the heroic and the state of…
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New Publication on Feminism and the Posthuman in Popular Culture
Falkenhayner, N 2020 The Ship Who Sang: Feminism, the Posthuman, and Similarity. Open Library of Humanities, 6(2): 21, pp. 1–24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.598
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Everything Changes, Nothing Changes…
Due to the recent developments, it might be insightful to revisit work on Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year , published in 1722. It is striking to reflect on the similarities of human behavior Defoe fictionalized from chronicles of the plague in London in 1665 and what is happening…
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Mit Geschichte denken. Unruhige Zeiten in geisteswissenschaftlicher Reflexion
Die Welt verändert sich rasant im Zeitalter von Globalisierung und Digitalisierung. Zukunftsprognosen drohen angesichts dieses beschleunigten Wandels schnell obsolet zu werden. Verheißungen auf ein besseres Morgen sind mit dem Wandel momentan kaum verbunden. Vorherrschend scheinen angesichts der vielfältigen Polarisierungen und Konflikte vielmehr Verunsicherung, Entscheidungsprobleme und Angst. Sicher erscheint nur eins:…
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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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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…