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Das Cassandra-Projekt ist eine Anspielung auf die Geschichte jener Figur in der Ilias, die eine düstere Zukunft prophezeite und der niemand glaubte, wodurch es zur Tragödie kam. Das Projekt hat es sich hingegen zum Ziel gesetzt, auf die Botschaften der Kassandras von heute zu hören, um weitere Katastrophen zu vermeiden, was konkret bedeutet: literarische Texte, die in Krisengebieten entstehen, auf ihr Voraussagenpotenzial hin zu analysieren, um mögliche zukünftige Entwicklungen in der Gesellschaft auszuloten. Die so entstehenden Prognosen können dann als Instrumente für anstehende politische Entscheidungen dienen. Der Beitrag verschafft einen Überblick über die Hintergründe, Methoden, praktischen Anwendungsbeispiele, Probleme und noch offenen Desiderate des Projekts.
In its elusive form between drama, novel and film, "Teorema" marks a 'new turning point in Pasolini's oeuvre'. Both the narrative and the style are remarkable, juxtaposing elements of different genres, nourishing the unresolved tensions within the film: the family members are shown in various scenes that follow one another in seemingly random order. Instead of a cohesive narrative unfolding in time, there reigns a sense of timelessness that gives rise to an oppressive feeling of drifting. Claudia Peppel's essay 'The Guest: Transfiguring Indifference in "Teorema"' explores the figure of the guest, which has always been closely connected with myth and whose appearance often triggers the dramatic conflict. Peppel focuses on "Teorema", in which a sensual stranger causes a bourgeois family to acknowledge its delusions. When he departs, the members of the family are left in a state of unfulfilled yearning, searching for new meaning. While critical literature on Pasolini regularly points to the importance of the figure of the guest but rarely analyzes it, Peppel discusses theories of the guest and hospitality to illuminate the role of the stranger in Pasolini's film. The guest's exceptional state, which is removed from everyday life and removes others from their everyday lives, is meticulously staged and resembles the evenly-suspended attention of the psychoanalyst. He triggers projections, desires, and, ultimately, existential crises.