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Who's afraid of ideology?
(2023)
Artist Marwa Arsanios shares textual fragments from research she conducted for the first and second parts of a video trilogy titled "Who's Afraid of Ideology?" Meditating on the voiding effects of war, and the ecological and affective texture of communal resistance and eco-feminist praxis as they emerge in Iraqi Kurdistan, Lebanon, and northern Syria, the text takes us to ecological milieux made of wild medicinal plants, fig trees, Kurdish guerrillas, and farmers in a women-only commune.
Umut Yıldırım's introduction combines the genres of literature review and commentary. It re-examines contemporary works on posthuman life to articulate ecological life-and-death politics within the context of colonial, imperial, and genocidal mass violence, and their entangled environmental legacies and actualities. A dissident repertoire of anthropological and artistic research is offered, which examines the ecological impact of war through the perspectives of human and more-than-human actors whose racialized and geographically regimented lives endure and counter ongoing environmental destruction.
This essay identifies in the materialist strand of world literature theory, especially Pascale Casanova and the Warwick Research Collective, a reliance upon a priori structures (the worldsystem) and prioritisation of the literary registration of inequality. By contrast, I contend, world-literary critics who wish to maintain the dissident spirit of postcolonialism ought to demonstrate a shared equality. By reference to the philosophies of Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay sets out the case for an alternative to world-systems critique: one that maintains literature's potential for creating new forms of resistance, dissent, and, crucially, equality.
Reinhold Görling geht von einem untrennbaren Zusammenhang von Conatus und Verletzbarkeit bzw. Tod aus, die er mit dem Begriff der Lebensnot verbindet und schon bei Spinoza selbst angelegt sieht. Die These einer immer schon bestehenden Nähe von Conatus und Lebensnot konturiert er im Folgenden im Rahmen eines immanenzphilosophischen und relationistischen medienästhetischen Ansatzes. Mit Deleuze verortet er den Moment, in dem Conatus und Lebensnot in einem singulären Leben verbunden sind in der Kunst. An jenem Punkt, in dem Ethik und Ästhetik in der Kunst ineinander übergehen, finden zugleich Relationalität und Widerstand zusammen. In einer dichten Lektüre des Films "Son of Saul" von Lázló Nemes (USA 2015) über ein Mitglied des Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz legt Görling dar, was er als ethisch-ästhetischen Grund des Films versteht.
Resistance
(2019)
The term 'resistance', as it appears in the writings of Walter Benjamin, marks the attempt to think a politics that emerges out of a certain experience of history and time. This entry shows that 'Widerstand' is conceived here principally as a resistance against the course of a catastrophic history - a desire for time to cease its flow and come to a standstill.
Resistance II
(2019)
Resistance I
(2019)
In an essay on Peter Weiss, W. G. Sebald remarked that 'the grotesque deformities of our inner lives have their background and origin in collective social history'. Weiss's works explore the relationships between writing and action, aesthetics and politics. This short essay discusses some fragments of texts by Weiss, asking how subjects formed and (grotesquely) deformed by history can continue to resist or intervene to alter its course.