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This chapter examines Edmond Jabès, who chose to write his oeuvre in French despite his Jewish-Arabic origins and his being conversant in both Hebrew and Arabic. French was never a true 'mother tongue' to him but rather 'a foreign one'. This poetical choice was also instrumental to his creation of a cosmos that is very clearly defined by 'la page blanche', or the 'blank page'. His writing develops this idea, both literally and metaphorically. A blank sheet is the only thing a writer has to work with at the start of every writing act, therefore it represents a kind of material opposition that all writers must overcome. It represents in this context an existential nothingness that precedes and simultaneously escapes both human and divine creation. In Jabès's writings, a blank page has two connotations at once: a condition for writing and nothingness. This ambivalent condition results in the paradoxical assumption that his 'mother tongue is a foreign language', because it cannot offer the same spiritual intimacy as another language, say, the Holy Language, and because the writer's 'mother tongue' - and, by extension, human language - is always impure and infiltrated by foreignness.
Mit der Darstellbarkeit des Denkprozesses an sich beschäftigt sich der französische Lyriker und Philosoph Paul Valéry. Denn durch die Materialisierung dieser Prozesse, d. h. durch den Versuch der exakten Dokumentation, werden sie analysierbar und ihr Potential allererst begreifbar. Technische Genauigkeit wird hierbei zum methodischen Ideal. Gemäß dem Beitrag von Lucas Knierzinger sucht Valéry explizit nach einer präzisen, systematisierenden Notationsform, die mit dem variierenden Schreibfluss seiner "Cahiers" in Spannung tritt und den in der Handschrift sedimentierten Denkprozess in Erscheinung treten lässt. Mit Eggerts laboratorischen Versuchsanlagen vergleichbar, bezeichnet Valéry die Interaktion von Lesen und Sehen bei der anschließenden kritischen Betrachtung dieser faksimilierten Manuskriptseiten auch als analytische 'machine à lire'.
This article investigates and proposes the concept of speculative writing, which is a disruptive sort of dramaturgy mediated by artificial intelligence. What are the kinds of events created by speculative writing? What might its history and genealogy be? What might the duration of an alphanumeric reenactment be? Guided by these questions, the article details its search for speculative writing in unfilmed script history as well as in premediation events. According to these concepts, this essay concludes that speculative writing will enact potential, abstract, and premediated events, which have never become material media.
The rise of the New Historicism or Cultural Poetics in the nineteen-eighties introduced a new school of cultural theory and inaugurated the end of the so-called New Criticism in English studies at American universities and beyond. As a founding member of the movement Stephen Greenblatt is closely associated with the New Historicism, which emerged in the 1980s. [...] What, then, are the key terms and principal aims of Greenblatt's innovative approach? The contextualization of poetic texts within cultural and political history as well as within an intellectual network of different discourses seemed vital and productive. [...] New Historicists operate by fusing two key issues in criticism since the 1960s: the 'linguistic turn' of post-structuralist and deconstructive criticism, and a return to historical readings. [...] Moreover, Stephen Greenblatt, proves to be very language-oriented in his studies. [...] In the following, Annette Simonis' contribution investigates on which levels and in what different respects Greenblatt focuses on (poetic) language and script as key elements and the foundation stone of modern cultures in his recent book "The Swerve. How the World Became Modern" (2011). Moreover, it explores in how far Greenblatt, in the wake of a recent material turn in the studies of culture, considers the process of writing itself as a crucial component in the analysis of cultural development, which he therefore closely examines in its particular material and aesthetic dimensions. As will become evident, the author is fascinated by Renaissance book culture serving simultaneously as a vehicle of intellectual ideas and a medium of art. It seems rewarding in many respects to analyze more closely Greenblatt's recent publication on the Renaissance. On the one hand the work indicates a careful reorientation in new historicist methodology, reflected in the author's attitude towards the texts themselves, which now takes into consideration the material basics and environments of writing as a cultural technique sui generis; on the other the book testifies Greenblatt's surprising accomplishments as an essayist and storyteller, as he elegantly moves on the borderline between fiction and non-fiction.
[Rezension zu:] Alfred Messerli/Roger Chartier (Hg.): Lesen und Schreiben in Europa 1500-1900
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Rezension zu Alfred Messerli/Roger Chartier (Hg.): Lesen und Schreiben in Europa 1500-1900. Vergleichende Perspektiven/Perspectives comparées/ Perspettive comparate. Basel (Schwabe-Verlag) 2000. 652 Seiten.
Der Band versammelt Referate und Diskussionsbeiträge einer Tagung zum Thema "Lesepraktiken und Schreibpraktiken in Europa, 1500-1900", die 1996 in Ascona, sinnigerweise auf dem Monte Verità, stattfand.
Die Zahl der computerisierten Schriftsteller wächst rapide. Von den Vorzügen des Mac wissen besonders die zu berichten, die zuvor Erfahrungen an anderen Systemen gesammelt haben. Wie zum Beispiel Fernsehautor Wolfgang Menge. Wir besuchten den Konvertiten in dessen Sylter Sommerdomizil und fragten ihn nach seinem Verhältnis zu den neuen Techniken des Schreibens. Das Gespräch führte Peter Matussek, die Fotos machte Frank Stöckel.
Was allzu bereitwillig schöntut, kann – ehe man sich versieht – den Kopf verdrehen und am Ende den Geist rauben. Die Qualität einer Textverarbeitung bemißt sich nicht nur am Outfit des Outputs, sondern vor allem daran, ob sie der Inspiration beim Input dient. Peter Matussek befaßt sich seit längerem mit den theoretischen und praktischen Konsequenzen des Schreibens am Computer. Für PAGE hat er eine skeptische Trendeinschätzung formuliert.