Turia + Kant, aus dem Englischen von Brita Pohl

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Kulturanalyse heißt für Mieke Bal einem weiten Kulturbegriff zu folgen und theoretische Kategorien, Kunstwerke und gesellschatfliche Praxen gleichermaßen als kulturelle Objekte zu lesen. In diesm Worterbuch kann man sie nun – Buchstabe für Buchstabe – bei der Arbeit beobachten. Zwischen A wie Anachronismus und Z wie Zapping führen die kurzen Essays in die Kulturanalyse und das transdiszipläre Denken Mieke Bals ein.

Lexikon der Kulturanalyse

Part Two: Special Issues, Special Pleading

1. Showing Trauma? Difficulty and Necessity
DON QUIJOTE, A LONG HISTORY OF MADNESS
Looking at photographs
Trauma Predicaments
Alone Within Himself: Drama versus Narrative
Impossible Story-Telling: Toward the Cinematic
A Way Out?

2. Agency, Facing
NOTHING IS MISSING (the installation)
Bertien van Manen
Introduction: Facing Migration
Abandoning Control
The triple Act of Facing
Intercultural Ethics: Relationality across Gaps
Preposterous Time
Facing Restraint
Facing Speech
For Critical Freedom

3. Cultural Citizenship vs. Identity
BECOMING VERA
STATE OF SUSPENSION, SEPARATIONS, Aleksandr Pushkin, Eugeni Onegin
Introduction: Citizenship Political, Colonial, Cultural
Becoming French in Cameroon, African in Russia
Becoming Pushkin
Preposterous Encounters of the Third Kind
Reality in Fiction
“My Africa”: Memory, Nostalgia, Exile
Encountering Cultural Citizenship
Impossible Cultural Citizenship

4. Affect as a Political Tool
MADAME B (the film, various installations)
DORIS SALCEDO: PALIMPSESTO
Introduction: The Point of Affect
From “Madame Bovary c’est moi” to “Emma is Us”
Ambiguous Focalisation: Suspending Judgment
What is Focalisation?
An Illness We All Have: Emotional Capitalism
Empathy: Siding with the Dying
Affective Things?
The Experience of Feeling-Looking
The Anthropomorphic Imagination
Affect, Medium and Mood

5. By Way of Conclusion
For Memory: Mis-remembered, Dis-remembered
ACCESS DENIED, A LONG HISTORY OF MADNESS, REASONABLE DOUBT
Eija-Liisa Ahtila, WHERE IS WHERE?
Introduction: Meandering Through Memory Thought
Making Acts of Memory
Reunion, Resilience, Resistance
What Kinds of Memory Matter?
Failing the Past is Failing the Present
For a Different Mode of Thinking

References
List of images
Author’s Filmography
Acknowledgments
Selective Index of Names and Titles
Selective Index of Terms and Concepts

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