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Sensing-through Architectural Scenographies: Tactility, Language and Natural History in the Work of Walter Benjamin
In its consideration of the work of the senses, notions of truth and language and political aesthetics in Walter Benjamin’s epistemology of images, this thesis takes as its touch-stone Benjamin’s somewhat overlooked ... -
After the Postdramatic? Elfriede Jelinek, Kathrin Röggla and the Possibility of Political Subjects
After the Postdramatic? Elfriede Jelinek, Kathrin Röggla, and the Possibility of Political Subjects My dissertation is concerned with the aesthetics of political theatre in post Millennium theatre texts by the Austrian ... -
Bildung, the Beautiful Soul, and the German Enlightenment Salon
(2019-05-01)My dissertation explores two critical German philosophical concepts: Bildung (self-cultivation) and die schöne Seele (the Beautiful Soul) in the context of Berlin salon culture around 1800. It is the first systematic ... -
Spatial Sovereignties: Autonomous Subjectivity and Political Resistance in Hamburg’s Rote Flora,1989-2017
(2019-07-20)This thesis examines the history and praxis of the left-radical Autonomous movement in West Germany, particularly in the case study of Hamburg’s Rote Flora: the symbolic centre of the European Autonomous ideology. Autonomie ...
