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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 ... -
The Assignment of Grammatical Gender in German: Testing Optimal Gender Assignment Theory
(2019-05-18)The assignment of grammatical gender in German is a notoriously problematic phenomenon due to the apparent opacity of the gender assignment system (e.g. Comrie 1999: 461). Various models of German gender assignment have ... -
Anticipatory Realism: Constructions of Futures and Regimes of Prediction in Contemporary Post-cinematic Art
(2019-02-23)This thesis examines strategies of anticipation in contemporary post-cinematic art. In the Introduction and the first chapter, I make the case for anticipation as a cultural technique for the construction of and adjustment ...
