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- ArticleAngst und BegehrenWidmer, Peter (2009) , S. 87-101Fear occurs in various forms: existential, pathological, physical and mental. This article gives a general survey of Freud's and Lacan's conceptions. While the founder of psychoanalysis conceives of fear mainly as a corporeal fear of castration, Lacan emphasises the more extended dimension of symbolic castration which is, through the concept of scarcity, directly connected with desire and fear. The pathological side of fear becomes apparent in the defence against existential fear, in phobias, that replace the unfathomable object of fear by a manageable one.
- ArticleAngsthasen. Schwärme als Transformationsungestalten zwischen Tierpsychologie und BewegungsphysikVehlken, Sebastian (2009) , S. 133-149Swarms are capable of informing the conceptual field of 'fear' in two ways: Firstly, as space-dissolving diversities that create specific forms of fear and dread; secondly, as spacegenerating collectives whose dynamics become possible only through a fear-induced 'density'. The modes of determination in this field transform themselves from psychological to kineto-physical. And thus, an epistemic alignment is constituted, along which the relations of swarms to spaces facilitate new approaches of media to the conceptual field of 'fear'.
- ArticleGespenster als Vorboten des Elektrischen. Wie ein Gelehrtenstreit im 18. Jahrhundert einen Anfangsgrund von Kulturwissenschaft stiftetSchaub, Mirjam (2009) , S. 37-52This essay considers the theoretical attention that recent social theories show for wayward object relations and inquires as to how this adjusts to the philosophical occupation with the status of "things". For while we find, at least since the 18th century and most notably with regard to epistemology, the dismissal of "the thing" as an ontological entity, this new attention, with its interest in material matters, seems, at first glance, to contradict that tradition.
- ArticleHegels symbolisches Papier. Zum medialen Status des DingsScholz, Leander (2009) , S. 53-60This essay considers the theoretical attention that recent social theories show for wayward object relations and inquires as to how this adjusts to the philosophical occupation with the status of "things". For while we find, at least since the 18th century and most notably with regard to epistemology, the dismissal of "the thing" as an ontological entity, this new attention, with its interest in material matters, seems, at first glance, to contradict that tradition.
- ArticleDer Mensch als Beute. Narrationen anthropologischer Angst im Science-Fiction-FilmAhrens, Jörn (2009) , S. 185-199Present-day Science-Fiction films repeatedly describe an obliteration of boundaries between human and other beings, and technical artefacts, which includes a threat to the human species. This motif relates to an anthropological fear of transformation of the human species due to advances in technology. This fear does not primarily refer to an invasion by extraterrestrial enemies, but to the anthropotechnization of man.
- ArticleMit lachendem Gesicht: en face le pire jusqu’à ce qu’il fasse rireMacho, Thomas (2009) , S. 19-36The varied reception history of Victor Hugo's novel L'Homme qui rit (1869) is outlined in the context of exemplary historicisations of the "laughing face"-character. This reconstruction deals with the interplay of aesthetics and passion, on the one hand, and with the effects of intermedia encounters of literature, photography and film, on the other. Not only the traditional naturalisation of medieval penalty practices (by defacing) is investigated, but also the modern media history of celebrities.
- ArticlePosthuman Conditions. Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften als dritte WissenskulturWeigel, Sigrid (2009) , S. 11-17As empirical research in neuro- and life sciences is aimed at the core of humanities, they adopt those formulas of pathos like "intention", "mind", "identity" or "consciousness" which, after all, have long been analysed with regard to their symbol-theoretical and media-anthropological principles. Meanwhile, cultural as well as media sciences have established themselves – beyond the contrasting 'two cultures' – as a kind of third culture of knowledge and thus connect to traditions of thought like, for instance, Freud's theory of subjects or Benjamin's theory of media.