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:When looking at computer games as utopias/dystopias we can describe them as imagined communities that are engaged in processes of nation building, for example. We will look at gamers in “our” world and avatars in the specific worlds of their own... | :When looking at computer games as utopias/dystopias we can describe them as imagined communities that are engaged in processes of nation building, for example. We will look at gamers in “our” world and avatars in the specific worlds of their own... | ||
− | ==Di., 1.7.2008: Georgiana Banita , "Emersons's Planetary Ethics" | + | ==Di., 1.7.2008: Georgiana Banita , "Emersons's Planetary Ethics" == |
− | Georgiana Banita | + | Georgiana Banita M.A., Uni Konstanz: |
:In her recent book Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (2006) Wai Chee Dimock argues that “rather than being a discrete entity, American literature is better seen as a crisscrossing set of pathways, open-ended and ever multiplying, weaving in an out of other geographies, other languages and cultures.” However, despite her injunction to inclusion and planetarity, Dimock maintains the concept of national literature as a heuristic for her study. This talk investigates the implications of this tension between national and global concerns by considering the pioneering comparative work of Emerson, with a focus on his literary ethics. I aim to show that planetarity – while part of a modernist theoretical discourse – goes back to the incipient colonial rhetoric of Transcendentalism and retains many of its problems until today. | :In her recent book Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (2006) Wai Chee Dimock argues that “rather than being a discrete entity, American literature is better seen as a crisscrossing set of pathways, open-ended and ever multiplying, weaving in an out of other geographies, other languages and cultures.” However, despite her injunction to inclusion and planetarity, Dimock maintains the concept of national literature as a heuristic for her study. This talk investigates the implications of this tension between national and global concerns by considering the pioneering comparative work of Emerson, with a focus on his literary ethics. I aim to show that planetarity – while part of a modernist theoretical discourse – goes back to the incipient colonial rhetoric of Transcendentalism and retains many of its problems until today. | ||
:From his relativizations of dogmatic, “historical” Christianity to his empathetic translations of Persian poetry, Emerson expressed a strong interest in the transnationality of culture and used his insights to anchor his own. Less obvious than this planetary openness, although equally important, is the extent to which this program contrasted with Emerson’s ethical precepts on the essential isolation of the intellectually-minded (especially in “Literary Ethics”). Emerson lived and wrote during the expansionist decades of an American empire-to-be struggling to extend its manifest destiny on a global scale. At the end of this process, it becomes necessary to reconsider how the movement towards what Paul Gilroy calls “planetary humanism” started out and what problems have plagued it from the beginning. | :From his relativizations of dogmatic, “historical” Christianity to his empathetic translations of Persian poetry, Emerson expressed a strong interest in the transnationality of culture and used his insights to anchor his own. Less obvious than this planetary openness, although equally important, is the extent to which this program contrasted with Emerson’s ethical precepts on the essential isolation of the intellectually-minded (especially in “Literary Ethics”). Emerson lived and wrote during the expansionist decades of an American empire-to-be struggling to extend its manifest destiny on a global scale. At the end of this process, it becomes necessary to reconsider how the movement towards what Paul Gilroy calls “planetary humanism” started out and what problems have plagued it from the beginning. | ||
:As a case in point, Emerson unveils the insufficiency of propounding a methodology of planetary ethics without supporting it with a strong foundation in individual solidarity and moral agency. To better grasp the potential of literary “worldling” as a process of ethical globalization, we need to look closely into the against-the-grain processes of estrangement and abjection, one of which has been the deeply-engrained transcendentalist doctrine of individualism and self-reliance. In light of this reconsideration, we can re-read Spivak and Dimock’s planetary critique and strengthen it with some useful objections. | :As a case in point, Emerson unveils the insufficiency of propounding a methodology of planetary ethics without supporting it with a strong foundation in individual solidarity and moral agency. To better grasp the potential of literary “worldling” as a process of ethical globalization, we need to look closely into the against-the-grain processes of estrangement and abjection, one of which has been the deeply-engrained transcendentalist doctrine of individualism and self-reliance. In light of this reconsideration, we can re-read Spivak and Dimock’s planetary critique and strengthen it with some useful objections. | ||
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+ | ==Di., 1.7.2008: Thomas Wägenbaur, "Buckminster Fuller and the Global Brain" == | ||
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==Termin noch offen: Maike Engelhardt: "Qualitative Forschung"== | ==Termin noch offen: Maike Engelhardt: "Qualitative Forschung"== |
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Contents
- 1 Do., 10.4.2008: Cornelia Hamann/ Birger Kollmeier, Sprachverstehen im fluktuierenden Störschall
- 2 Di., 29.4.2008: Eva Ogiermann, "Universal Speech Acts? Theory vs. Practice"
- 3 Do., 22.5.2008: Stefanie Gropper / Ingrid Hotz-Davies: "Exzentrische Positionierungen"
- 4 Di., 10.6.2008: Manuela Schönenberger, "Article use by native speakers of Russian in L2 and L3 English"
- 5 Di., 24.6.2008: Nadja Gernalzick: "Planetarity in Literature and Literary Studies"
- 6 Mo., 30.6.2008, 19:00: Jakob Dittmar, "Alternative worlds in computer games: utopias, dystopias, or what?"
- 7 Di., 1.7.2008: Georgiana Banita , "Emersons's Planetary Ethics"
- 8 Di., 1.7.2008: Thomas Wägenbaur, "Buckminster Fuller and the Global Brain"
- 9 Termin noch offen: Maike Engelhardt: "Qualitative Forschung"
- 10 Di., 4. Nov. 2008: Kalí Tal, "Trauma"
- 11 Di., 2. Dez. 2008: Isabel Karremann (Thema noch offen)
- 12 Termin offen: Christina Meyer, Trauma and Popular Culture. Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers
- 13 Archiv und Planung
Do., 10.4.2008: Cornelia Hamann/ Birger Kollmeier, Sprachverstehen im fluktuierenden StörschallProf. Dr. Cornelia Hamann, Institut für Fremdsprachenphilologien und Prof. Dr. Birger Kollmeier, Institut für Physik sprechen zu Sprachverstehen im fluktuierenden Störschall. Di., 29.4.2008: Eva Ogiermann, "Universal Speech Acts? Theory vs. Practice"Eva Ogiermann mit einem Vortrag unter dem Thema: "Universal Speech Acts? Theory vs. Practice". Eva Ogiermann dazu:
Do., 22.5.2008: Stefanie Gropper / Ingrid Hotz-Davies: "Exzentrische Positionierungen"Stefanie Gropper und Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Tübingen, "Exzentrische Positionierungen" - die Referentinnen schreiben dazu:
Di., 10.6.2008: Manuela Schönenberger, "Article use by native speakers of Russian in L2 and L3 English"Manuela Schönenberger on her topic:
Di., 24.6.2008: Nadja Gernalzick: "Planetarity in Literature and Literary Studies"Mo., 30.6.2008, 19:00: Jakob Dittmar, "Alternative worlds in computer games: utopias, dystopias, or what?"
Di., 1.7.2008: Georgiana Banita , "Emersons's Planetary Ethics"Georgiana Banita M.A., Uni Konstanz:
Di., 1.7.2008: Thomas Wägenbaur, "Buckminster Fuller and the Global Brain"Prof Dr. Thomas Wägenbaur, International University Bruchsal: Termin noch offen: Maike Engelhardt: "Qualitative Forschung"Details folgen. Di., 4. Nov. 2008: Kalí Tal, "Trauma"Details folgen. Di., 2. Dez. 2008: Isabel Karremann (Thema noch offen)Details folgen. Termin offen: Christina Meyer, Trauma and Popular Culture. Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No TowersChristina Meyer on her topic:
Archiv und Planung
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