scholarly journals Rastros de vanguarda em uma rua de mão única: caminhos possíveis em Walter Benjamin / Tracks of Avant-Guard in a One-Way Street: Possible Paths in Walter Benjamin

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Nathália Ananda Silva de Lima
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Historical Contextualization

Resumo: Ao elencar e organizar uma vasta coleção de textos fragmentários, que versam desde reflexões sobre suportes para o literário até o cotidiano dos alemães, Walter Benjamin revela em “Rua de mão única” (1928) uma possibilidade de aproximar sua proposta de escritura às estéticas de vanguarda do início do século XX. Desse modo, a presença da técnica de montagem permite entrever o rastro de elementos surrealistas, dadaístas e cubistas na constituição da obra. Assim, para ilustrar como tais artifícios ressoam em Benjamin, este trabalho apresentará contextualizações históricas de Nicolau Sevcenko e Francesco Careri e o estudo sobre técnicas de montagem de Willi Bolle junto a fragmentos da obra do pensador alemão.Palavras-chave: Walter Benjamin; vanguarda; Rua de mão única.Abstract: By cataloguing and organizing a vast collection of fragmentary texts, which cover aspects from his reflection about supports to the literary text to the German quotidian, Walter Benjamin revels, in “Rua de mão única” (1928), the possibility of approaching his proposal of writing to the Avant-guard aesthetics of the beginning of the 20th century.  This way, the presence of the montage technique allows us to glimpse the tracks of surrealist, dadaist and cubist elements in the constitution of the work. Thus, to illustrate how such artifices resonate in Benjamin, this work presents the historical contextualization by Nicolau Sevcenko and Francesco Careri and the study about techniques of montage by Willi Bolle, together with fragments of the German thinker’s work.Keywords: Walter Benjamin; avant-guard; one-way street.

scholarly journals Manfredo Tafuri and the critique of realism

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-195
Author(s):  
Luka Skansi
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Contextualization ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
Historical Discourses

One of the main themes of Manfredo Tafuri's historical work, whether he was analyzing Renaissance, Enlightenment or the 20th century architecture, has been that of trying to illustrate the distance between architect's work and reality. This topic is also the premise, the introductory theoretical frame for his critical and historical discourses that are inherent to his "critique of realism": a critique that was expressed in the essay Architettura e Realismo [Architecture and Realism], published in 1985. A text that represented the conclusion of Tafuri's observation on the Italian postwar architectural culture. In this essay the Italian neorealism became the object of a rather unique historical contextualization, the object of Tafuri's deep critique and, ultimately, of his demystification.

scholarly journals Training as a Path to Ethos in the Formation of the Actor

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chavannes Péclat ◽  
Elias Lopes ◽  
Renato Ferracini
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Training Session ◽  
Laboratory Practice ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Work Routines ◽  
Historical Contextualization ◽  
Fundamental Reference ◽  
Odin Teatret

ABSTRACT In this article, the authors discuss training as a way of shaping the ethos of the actor. The laboratory practice developed by the artists of the Odin Teatret and LUME Teatro serves as fundamental reference. Beginning with a historical contextualization of the European theater laboratories of the 20th century, the text moves on to focus on training within the context of the aforementioned groups. From the analysis of their artistic practices, the article proposed an interpretation of the training session as a place for developing and consolidating the ethos of the actor, understood as a catalyst for a set of practices and knowledge that artists acquire by through their work routines. In conclusion, the authors reaffirm the perspective that they offer by explaining how the laboratory practices of these theater groups has been reinvented, in light of the global pandemic restrictions of COVID-19.

scholarly journals „Auf das Material kommt es an“ – Franz Friedrichs Roman Die Meisen von UUsimaa singen nicht mehr als Reflex auf den Umbruch ins digitale Zeitalter

2017 ◽  
Vol 141 ◽  
pp. 135-149
Author(s):  
Beate Sommerfeld
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Analogue To Digital

Der Artikel behandelt den Roman Die Meisen von UUsimaa singen nicht mehr 2014 des Experimentalfilmers und Autors Franz Friedrich als Reflex auf den Umbruch vom analogen zum digitalen Zeitalter. Stark polarisierend bezieht der Roman zum Medienwandel Stellung und schlägt sich auf die Seite der Analogmedien Fotografie und Film, wobei er auf den Fotografie- und Filmdiskurs des 20. Jahrhunderts von Bela Balazs, Walter Benjamin bis hin zu Roland Barthes und Georges Didi-Huberman zurückgreift. Indem der Roman ein Gewebe aus photoästhetischen Topoi, Metaphern und Diskursen spinnt, modelliert er eine Ästhetik des Abdrucks und der Berührung, die auf Roland Barthes’ Modell des “vokalischen Schreibens” rekurriert. Das Unbehagen an der Repräsentation, das aus Friedrichs Roman spricht, geht mit einer nostalgisch gefärbten Sehnsucht nach dem Authentischen einher.“The material matters” — reflections on the upheaval from analogue to digital media in the novel The Tits of Uusimaa Don’t Sing Any More by Franz Friedrich The purpose of the article is to show how literary texts reflect upon the upheaval from analogue to digital media using the example of the novel The Tits of Uusimaa Don’t Sing Any More by the experimental filmmaker and author Franz Friedrich 2014. Friedrich approaches the technological shift from analogue to digital and the transforming landscape of media from a critical viewpoint by looking back at the early 20th-century scenario of intermedial exchange. Doing so, he refers to the 20th-century media discourse Béla Balázs, Walter Benjamin to Roland Barthes and Georges Didi-Huberman, scrutinizing and redefining analogue media by referring to various topoi, metaphors the analogue as a mental imprint of the real. Friedrich confronts the representation paradigm of literature to the aesthetic of contact and resonances, strongly related to Roland Barthes’ concept of “vocal writing”.

scholarly journals Lucidarius in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, and Czechia: Types of Reception in the mid-16th to the First Quarter of the 20th Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-22
Author(s):  
Sergejus Temčinas
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
General Overview ◽  
National Characteristics ◽  
First Time

The article is focused on the problems of historical typology of the Slavic reception of the translated Lucidarius (Lucidář) in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, and Czechia throughout its existence. For the first time, a general overview of Slavic evidences is presented in a generalized way, reflecting various types of perception (positive, negative, and neutral) of the specific literary text and indicating the chronology of each of them. Based on these evidences, their historical interpretation is presented, which consists in identifying two qualitatively different stages in the reception of the text under consideration: emotionally engaged (it can equally manifest itself in a positive or negative attitude) and neutral. The change of these historical stages took place in different Slavic countries within half a century (from the 1850s/60s to the 1920s). This process did not depend on the national characteristics of the functioning of Lucidaria, for example, the number of translations performed or their manuscript copies made, as well as the presence or the absence of a local Slavic printed tradition of this particular text, which significantly influenced the degree of its dissemination and, consequently, the level of acquaintance with it in the reading public.

scholarly journals Doomed Youth: Antonio Cánovas, a Young Sportsman in Time of War in 1930s Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Viuda-Serrano ◽  
Iker Ibarrondo-Merino
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Working Class ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Active Life ◽  
Historical Contextualization ◽  
Politically Active

During the Spanish Civil War (SCW) 1936–1939, many young working-class sportsmen volunteered. They were both physically and politically active and some of them outstanding athletes. The search of these unknown men has just begun. Doomed Youth is a tribute to them and the first step toward a bigger attempt to better comprehend the role of sportsmen volunteers enlisted during the first months of the SCW, a fact that to date has received little scholar attention. Archival research, especially war combatants' family records as well as newspaper archives, oral memories of the protagonists left alive, and historical contextualization were defined as the appropriate methods to conduct the research. This paper is devoted to one of these young volunteers, Antonio Cánovas, recently dead in 2018 at the age of 98, whose life story in the 1930s and 1940s may be taken as the epitome of the young working-class sportsman of the cutting-edge regions of Spain in the first half of the 20th century: youngsters aware of their political and social rights whose dreams of social justice and active life were dashed by the war.

scholarly journals Ernst Bloch as a Non-Simultaneous Jewish Marxist

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 346
Author(s):  
Przemyslaw Tacik
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Ernst Bloch ◽  
Franz Rosenzweig ◽  
Jewish Heritage ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Hermann Cohen

The paper attempts to reassess the fundamentally paradoxical position of Ernst Bloch in 20th century philosophy in the light of the Marranic condition. Indebted, among others, to Jewish heritage and Christian tradition, Bloch considered himself primarily a Marxist. Bloch’s uniqueness consists in the stunning equiponderance of the currents he drew from. Contrary to a classic model of modern Jewish philosophy, inaugurated by Hermann Cohen, Bloch’s thinking does not allow of easy juxtaposition of “sources” with languages into which they were translated. In this sense, Bloch cannot be easily compared to Franz Rosenzweig, Emmanuel Levinas or even Walter Benjamin (although he bore some striking similarities with the latter). His position at least partly stems from a specific form of directness with which he often used these languages, composing his philosophy in quite an anachronist manner. For this reason his thinking—in itself “die Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen”, as one of his key concepts theorises—is a very modern, internally incoherent space of cross-fertilising inspirations. The paper demonstrates two levels on which Bloch’s indebtedness to Judaism might be analysed and then re-assesses his Marxist affiliations as a kind of modern faith which, in a specifically Marranic manner, seals the simultaneity of the non-simultaneous.

Convulsive Form

2020 ◽  
pp. 287-302
Author(s):  
Patrick ffrench
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Georges Bataille ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Authoritarian Politics

Starting from Giorgio Agamben's proposition, in 'Notes on Gesture', that the 20th-century is beset by a 'crisis of gesture' this chapter explores the convulsive or 'innervated body' in the work of Walter Benjamin and Georges Bataille. Taking a less melancholy approach than Agamben, I ask what can the convulsive body do and what forms can it produce. Both Benjamin and Bataille invest the convulsive body with a power susceptible to provoke affective 'discharge' and thus with a kind of political agency. Their approaches differ, however, over the nature of this politics; while Benjamin accentuates the potential of play and its gesturality, especially in his writing in cinema, Bataille pursues convulsion on the terrain of ritual and sacrifice, particularly in the novel Le Bleu du ciel. For both, however, the dangerous continuity between the convulsion and an authoritarian politics is at stake.  

Wahre Sammler

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Leven
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
The Real

Private collecting was a popular pastime at the beginning of the 20th century. Among them, private collectors with a passion for the unconventional made a strong contribution. They often collected without regard for established orders of knowledge and taste and thus distinguished themselves from the traditional preservation of cultural artefacts. Philosopher Walter Benjamin described this type of collector as the real, "true collectors" (“Wahre Sammler”). With folklorist Anton Maximilian Pachinger (1864–1938) and Marxist cultural scientist Eduard Fuchs (1870–1940), this study examines two representatives of this type. It not only locates the collectors and their collections in terms of cultural history, but also reveals their potential as cultural innovators, who still open exciting perspectives on their times today.

scholarly journals THE GOSPEL TRADITION OF NUMBER SYMBOLISM IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIAN POETRY

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 328-362
Author(s):  
Ludmila Mnich
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Boris Pasternak ◽  
Number Symbolism ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Zinaida Gippius

The article discusses the issues of studying and interpreting number symbolism in a literary work and characteristics of gospel number symbolism in the Christian context. In 20th-century Russian literature, the Christian tradition had a decisive impact on shaping the meaning of number symbolism. An important feature of the Christian symbolism of numbers is the correlation of number symbolism with two spheres, which can be designated as “positive” (sacral) and “negative” (sinful). The author proposes a methodology for interpreting number symbolism, which comprises three stages: 1) a description of the numbers in a literary text, 2) the correlation of these numbers with the tradition of number symbolism, 3) the interpretation of the meaning of number symbolism, which is an integral part of literary work. The article also distinguishes between two concepts — that of the number image and of the image of number, and substantiates the differences in interpretation of such images. Theoretical notions are supported by the interpretation of number symbolism in the poems of Boris Pasternak, Zinaida Gippius and Alexander Blok, where it is presented explicitly. Other images, motifs and concepts presented in the literary works augmented and added complexity to the tradition of gospel number symbolism in the poems of these authors.

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