scholarly journals Künstlerroman of "Late Modernity": Karl Ove Knausgård's My Struggle and Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet

MLN ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 136 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-208
Author(s):  
Olivia Santovetti
Keyword(s):  
Late Modernity

Language in Late Modernity

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Rampton
Keyword(s):  
Late Modernity

Saving Abstraction

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Dohoney
Keyword(s):  
Altered States ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Spiritual Orientation ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Religious Feeling ◽  
Religious Sensibility ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spiritual Intervention ◽  
Musical Modernism

Saving Abstraction takes up the conflicted history of Morton Feldman’s most important collaboration—his work with Dominique and John de Menil on music for the Rothko Chapel in Houston. These collaborators struggled over fundamental questions about the emotional efficacy of artistic practice and its potential translation into religious feeling. At the center of this study is the question of ecumenism—that is, in what terms can religious encounters be staged for fruitful dialog to take place? And how might abstraction (both visual and musical) be useful to achieving it? This was a dilemma for Feldman, whose music sought to produce sublime “abstract experience,” as well as for the de Menils, who envisioned the Rothko Chapel as a space for spiritual intervention into late modernity. Saving Abstraction develops two central concepts: “abstract ecumenism” and “agonistic universalism.” The former characterizes a broad spiritual orientation within postwar musical modernism and experimentalism that aspired to altered states of ego-loss. This emerged as a renewed religious sensibility in late modernist experimentalism. The latter concept describes the particular religious form that Feldman’s music achieves within Rothko Chapel—an ascetic mode of existence that endures hopefully the aporia of postwar modernization’s destructiveness and modernism’s failure to effectively counter it.

Developing a Cultural Theory of Music Making and Leisure

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Spracklen
Keyword(s):  
Leisure Time ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Meaning And Purpose ◽  
Cultural Forms

People listen to music in their leisure time, in leisure spaces, as a supposedly free act of agency. Yet social and cultural theorists show that leisure choices and spaces are constrained by hegemonic power, and that cultural forms such as music are products of commodification. This chapter explores these key claims for the use of music and the consumption of music in leisure spaces. It uses the work of Baudrillard on simulacra to explore the potential meaning and purpose of music in the lives of makers, listeners and fans—as a key device in constructing alternative hyperrealities to the capitalized reality of late modernity.

Mapping the Terrain of Time—Space Compression: Power Networks in Everyday Life

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 611-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Bridge
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Power Networks ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Space Compression ◽  
Actor Networks ◽  
Power Geometry ◽  
Comprehensive Mapping

In this paper I seek a more comprehensive mapping of the experience of time—space in late modernity. I develop Massey's critique of the work of Harvey and Jameson in their reading of time space compression as a socially uniform experience of disorientation. Building on Massey's notion of ‘power geometry’ I integrate discussions of time—space with an application of different understandings of power (from traditional political philosophy, Marxism, and poststructuralism) and their manifestations—in latent-power conditions, socioeconomic networks, actor networks, ‘local’ interpersonal relations, and the network spaces of subjectivity. Rather than being posited as irreconcilable conceptions, these versions of power and their articulations can be seen as initial coordinates in the mapping of the complexities of the experiences of time and space in late modernity.

The Doppelgänger and his Master

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuba Mikurda
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Repressed Memory ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Two Sides

A performative introduction, by Kuba Mikurda, to Johan Grimonprez’s Double Take (2009). Based on the themes of duality, playing for both sides, and doppelgänger fantasy, the tells not only the tale of Alfred Hitchcock’ lifelong fascination with such motifs, but also of the Cold War (and its influence on our contemporaneity) as a Hitchcock-esque reality. Using archive footage of Alfred Hichcock Presents, where the author of Psycho impersonates various alternative versions of himself, Grimonprez shows that the two sides of the Iron Curtain are actually two sides of the same coin – perfect mirror images of its double. The same is true for Cold War paranoia, the returning phantom of a global conflict, or atom war – it is ultimately difficult to say whether the films of the master of suspense, such as Birds and North by Northwest are its manifestation or is it maybe that in the current state of late modernity, our experience of the world took on the features of a Hitchcock film. Grimonprez – an artist known for gallery projects and theoretical interests, offers a story of the duplexity of a divided world – a slightly histo/erical one and full of distance and games. All the same, as Karen Beckmann reminds us, “the sameness of a twin is based on the repressed memory of division, breakage, and a sudden partition”.

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