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Lexika wie Zedlers Universal-Lexicon gehen von einer scharfen Trennung zwischen Objekt und Subjekt aus, Schreibwerkzeuge werden darin immer auf die Objektseite geschlagen. Sprechende und damit subjektivierte Federn gibt es hingegen schon, seit Federn in Gebrauch sind. Sie tun dies vor allem in literarischen Texten, wo sie als dingliche Objekte Subjektstatus einnehmen und dadurch die Dichotomie von Subjekt und Objekt unterlaufen. Wenn die Feder zum sprechenden Subjekt wird, werden die von ihr beschriebenen Menschen zum Objekt, wobei sich die Feder dann für Benachteiligte und Unterdrückte einsetzt und dadurch diese wiederum zu Subjekten erhebt. Innerhalb der It-Narratives nehmen erzählende Federn eine Sonderstellung ein, weil sie erstens die materielle Vorbedingung des Schreibens sind, weil sie zweitens den Schwellenraum von Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit besetzen, indem sie paradoxerweise das, was sie sprechen, auch gleichzeitig ins Schriftliche transponieren und dort festschreiben, sowie weil sie drittens poetologisch das hinterfragen, was geschrieben wird und werden soll
Die Beziehung von res und verba ist ihrem Grunde nach eine sprachphilosophische. Sie handelt von jenen Dingen, die überhaupt der Sprache zugänglich sind, bzw. von jenen Gegenständen, welche durch ihre Artikulation erst zu Dingen der Sprache werden. Der Fokus der Überlegungen konzentriert sich auf die Organisation des Verhältnisses von res und verba, für das über Jahrtausende hinweg in erster Linie die Rhetorik zuständig gewesen ist. Diesem liegen allerdings tatsächlich zwei sprachphilosophische Annahmen zugrunde, die von gegensätzlichen Voraussetzungen ausgehen.
Im Zeitraum vom 7. bis zum 9. Dezember 2017 fand an der Universität Breslau (Wrocław) in Kooperation mit der Ruhr-Universität Bochum die Winterschool "Europa: Poetik und Politik" statt. Die gut zwanzig Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer – darunter Professor*innen, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen und Studierende beider Universitäten – diskutierten die neuere Geschichte von Europa-Diskursen von der Romantik bis in die Gegenwart. Ausgangspunkt der Tagung war die gegenwärtige Krise der Europäischen Union, die – so zeigte sich im Verlauf der Tagung – als Fortführung der leitmotivischen 'Schwellensituationen' zu verstehen ist, die als das Gemeinsame der diskutierten Texte und somit in gewisser Weise als konstitutiv für den Europa-Diskurs erkannt wurden.
The present volume documents the twofold character of the conference 'Science meets Comics' with the first part focusing on comics as a format for communicating complex topics and the second part addressing food in the age of the Anthropocene as one such example for complex topics. The overall objective of the symposium was to deal with the results and suggestions of the presentations and discussions, to find possible pathways on how to feed the world in the future and to co-produce the final chapter of the scientific comic 'Eating Anthropocene' together with all artists participating in the project. In order to sum up the framing, contents and design process of the comic as well as to highlight its Anthropocene context we below provide a slightly abridged version of the preface of our comic book.
In Japan, most contemporary readers expect comics, or manga, to be entertaining fiction ('story manga'), magazine-based, and targeted at age- and gender-specific demographics. These narratives eventually reappear in bound book editions ('tankōbon'), after they have proven to be popular to an extent that would warrant print runs of more than 5,000 copies. Due to the central role of magazines as first site of publication since the 1960s, genre specificity has been essential – for editors, readers, and artists alike. While manga's traditional genres have been gender- and age-specific, thematic genres such as SF, horror and comedy, or recently also blog-like essay manga, come to the fore whenever the otherwise prevalent categories forfeit efficacy. But there is one genre which does not comply with these categories, i.e. gakushū manga, educational or instructional comics.
A comic can tell the story of almost anything: a single atom, the entire solar system, the past, future events, dreams and thoughts. All this, and more, can be depicted. When presenting facts, a certain artistic licence can be deployed if, for instance, the author wants to emphasise important details; likewise, aspects he or she deems irrelevant can be left out. Moreover, questions and issues can be laid out that are difficult or even impossible to portray photographically or cinematically. However, when the cartoon strip sets out its version of information, events, objects and people, it can also result in a distortion of reality. The graphic may not always make clear exactly how something looks or the precise way in which something happened. And even where documentary images exist, the comic strip representation of the non-fictional is always coloured by artistic interpretation.
There is no doubt that factual discourse exists in comics – the kind of communication that intends to be understood as a reference to a shared and actual reality. Factual comics are not, however, common. While the formal structure of comics clearly allows for factuality, the historical specificity of its aesthetics seems to introduce a non-binding but plausible 'drift' of the art form, ultimately pulling away from reality and towards fiction. This does not prevent factual comics, but it allows for subversive remnants in their aesthetic make-up. One of these is a 'parasitic imagination', which might be understood in the context of Michel Serres' concepts of the parasite. It opens up cartoonish depictions for tertiary significations beyond the drawing and its ultimate real reference. Rather than avoid this basic vehicle of comic book discourse, the 'challenge to factual comics' must be how to employ them in the service of the intended communication.
Beyond Illustration
(2017)
Sophisticated science reported on in comics. The once unthinkable is here as comics are being leveraged and enthusiastically welcomed into forums that would have been off limits not long ago. It's an exciting time of change. But in this headlong dash forward, I want to offer a pause for consideration, and suggest that we ask, what are the things that comics do uniquely compared to other forms of representation? And from there, let us explore how we can best take advantage of comics' particular affordances to do with comics things only comics can do.
In October 2015, the Cluster of Excellence 'Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory' at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin staged a symposium entitled Science meets Comics. Academics from various disciplines converged along with artists from all over the world in order to discuss the future of global nutrition – and the medium of the comic strip as a communication tool for the complex issues in this field. The open two-day symposium was followed by a closed, three-day workshop wherein the artists and cluster members took up the issues raised at the symposium and worked on possible directions for the future.