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Europäische Blicke von Europa über Europa hinaus und zurück : zur Wahrnehmung südamerikanischer Verfassungen im 18./19. Jahrhundert
(2010)
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Heinz Mohnhaupt
- Europäische Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte bezog und bezieht ihren Erkenntniswert einerseits aus der Überwindung der Enge einer nationalstaatlichen Betrachtung. Daraus ist andererseits oft eine neue Beschränkung erwachsen, die aus der Globalisierung unserer Welt herrührt und von kosmopolitischem Geist – jenseits aller arbeitsökonomischen Bedingungen – als Europazentrismus kritisiert wird. So kann das ehemals Progressive wieder zu einer neuen Form von Rückständigkeit mutieren. Heute müssen wir sagen: "Europa lässt sich ohne Außereuropa gar nicht denken." ...
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Lehr- und Lernstücke für Europa? : [Rezension zu: Peter A. J. van den Berg, The Politics of European Codification. A History of the Unification of Law in France, Prussia, the Austrian Monarchy and the Netherlands, Groningen: Europa Law Publishing 2007, XVI, 325 S., ISBN 978-90-76871-48-6]
(2010)
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Heinz Mohnhaupt
- Das materialreiche Buch ist im Verlag "Europa Law Publishing" erschienen, der sich auf Publikationen zum "European Union Law" spezialisiert hat. Damit ist schon eine Programmatik angezeigt, die die Dissertation aus der Schule von W. J. Zwalve aus Leiden verfolgt. Van den Berg (vdB) hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die europäische Kodifikationsgeschichte des 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhunderts in den Dienst aktueller Europa-Politik zu stellen. Rechtsgeschichte soll für die Gestaltung des europäischen Gemeinschaftsrechts nutzbar gemacht werden, ihre Dialogfähigkeit beweisen und Legitimationskraft für Europa und seine Einigung entfalten. Das ist ein ehrgeiziges und sympathisches Unterfangen, das Macht und Ohnmacht von Rechtsgeschichte am Beispiel europäischer Gesetzgebungsgeschichte zu beleuchten vermag. ...
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Rechtsgewohnheiten in der Perspektive der altorientalischen Rechtsgeschichte
(2010)
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Guido Pfeifer
- Martin Pilchs rechtstheoretische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Begriff der Rechtsgewohnheit bzw. Rechtsgewohnheiten sowie dem Rechtsbegriff als solchem, wie sie seit geraumer Zeit innerhalb der Rechtsgeschichte des Mittelalters diskutiert werden, bietet Gelegenheit zu einer Stellungnahme aus der Perspektive der altorientalischen Rechtsgeschichte. Während in anderen Bereichen der antiken Rechtsgeschichte Rechtsgewohnheiten als Begriff und als Phänomen jedenfalls in jüngerer Zeit durchaus thematisiert werden, spielt dies im Zusammenhang mit Untersuchungen zu den Keilschriftrechten bislang eine allenfalls untergeordnete Rolle. ...
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ici uniglory, 2009 : installation. Ink, paper, images & text
(2010)
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Laura Taler
- 'ici uniglory' is an installation on paper. The piece intertwines fragments of six texts by Bruno Besana, Fabio Camilletti, Antke Engel, Sara Fortuna, Laura Taler, and Andrea von Kameke, written in response to the video installation UNIGLORY, a work-in-progress exhibited at ICI Berlin. The responses are edited, fragmented, and re-assembled to reflect the way the filmmaker worked with the filmed dance footage in the original installation, essentially re-choreographing words. The subtle tensions between the different responses allow for shifts and movements within the piece. The result is a poetic intermingling of voices that rub up against one another. Tension also acts as a binding agent, holding all the fragments together and allowing them to be woven into a collective text.
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The violence of form : philosophical remarks on Mazen Kerbaj's sound piece "Starry Night"
(2010)
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Ozren Pupovac
- The article offers a philosophical reading of Mazen Kerbaj's sound piece "Starry Night". Recorded in 2006 during the bombing of Beirut by the Israeli Air Force, the piece stages an acoustic encounter between the improvised sounds of the trumpet and live bomb explosions. Arguing for a formal examination of the ways in which Kerbaj stages the problem of the genesis of musical order in the exchange between trumpet and bombs, the article draws parallels with explorations of the problems of the State and of political contradiction in the Marxist tradition. Three common points are identified: the contingency of the appearance of order, its inseparability from an excess of violence, and its spatializing function. The last part delineates parallels between Kerbaj's subversive aesthetic strategies and Badiou's elaboration of the concept of the subject as the interruption of a repetitive logic of placement.
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Disappear here : adventures in subconscious narrative filmmaking
(2010)
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Siouxzi Mernagh
- This contribution consists of an explanatory introduction and extracts from recent fiction works, 'White Tales' (novel) and 'Peep Show' (novel in progress). Both fiction works explore the spiralling tensions between intensity and excess, desire and jouissance, via the structure and methodology pioneered in the author's previous work with 'subconscious narrative' film. The result of this prior work was the 18-minute subconscious narrative film 'The Dangers', which explores an experimental narrative structure and is fascinated by the creation and sustenance of suspense, particularly when created with the notion of the uncanny in mind.
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Tension in/between aesthetics, politics, and physics
(2010)
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Christoph F. E. Holzhey
- The article sketches a critical paradigm for interdisciplinary work that is centred on tension as a highly ambiguous and ultimately deeply paradoxical notion. It highlights that a unifying account of what tension is or a systematic classification of its diverse meanings would risk resolving tensions between different approaches and privileging a particular mode of doing so. Successively focussing on aesthetic, socio-political, and physical tensions, the essay articulates tension rather as a broad umbrella term that is stretched by multi-perspectival articulations, unified through its intensive surface tension, and at the same time full of transformative and generative potentials. In particular, it proposes that tensions between different cultural or disciplinary fields can be made productive by inducing tensions within each field so that different fields can be related to each other on the basis of tension rather than some substantial commonality.
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Strategies of tension : A. Boissier's "Les amants électrisés par l'amour" (1797)
(2010)
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Rupert Gaderer
- The article analyses A. Boissier's image "Les Amants électrisés par l'amour" in view of the larger question of how something is able to arouse interest on first sight, but also in repeat encounters. Highlighting the engraving's didactic iconography, the article shows how it revolves around the solution to a riddle and uses a typical design of the Enlightenment to show the uncovering of a deception. As such, the engraving is part of a long tradition of showing (supposedly) supernatural events, more specifically the tradition of Magia naturalis. At the same time, the image contains dissonances and can be seen to simulate suspense through dichotomies that can be identified as antagonistic historical concepts. The article furthermore discusses the amalgamation of love and electricity in contemporary discourses and addresses the temporal dimension of the engraving, which constructs itself out of an absence, out of something yet unseen.
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Desiring tension : towards a queer politics of paradox
(2010)
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Antke Engel
- The article provides a close reading of the video "Sometimes you fight for the world, sometimes you fight for yourself", dir. by Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz (2004, 5'). It reads the video as promoting what it calls a 'queer politics of paradox', that is, a politics that acknowledges desire as a constitutive moment of the political and at the same time challenges the political via a queer understanding of desire in order to make room for the political articulation of the Other. The article argues that a reworking of the political - one that aims at de-centring its hegemonic dynamic and creating space for Otherness - becomes possible if one invites paradox as a specific, anti-identitarian, and agonistic mode of tension to function as a constitutive moment of desire and of the political.
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The topoi of utopia : a topology of political tensions
(2010)
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Martin Doll
- Writing a positive account of utopias has always been a difficult and risky task. Utopias have always already been out of fashion and outside of time. Since 1989 at the latest, visions of utopia appear to have come to an end. Twenty years after Fukayama's 'end of history', this article re-assesses the potentially fruitful roles for utopia’s out-of-timeness. Focusing on the critical potential of utopias through the concept of tension, it argues that utopian thought must be conceptualized through its tensile connections both to the status quo of a given society and to its possible futures.
