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  • Journal Issue
    Escaping the Moment. Time Travel as a Negotiation of Transcendence
    (2024)
    Time travel is a widespread popular cultural motif that copes with the transcendent, as it goes beyond physical boundaries and exceeds what is empirically observable. As the contributions in this issue show, the time travel motif not only expresses the tension between a Now and an (imaginary) Then, but it also raises new questions about human transformation. The articles focus on different time travel motifs and their media representations, for example in science fiction and drama film, in Reality TV, and in children’s literature. They raise questions about the central normative categories of a particular time, about political discourses and cultures of remembrance, and also about the formation of identity processes. Through the articles’ different approaches, they do not only take us on a journey through time, but also into a multifaceted network of scholarly perspectives.
  • Article
    “Jesus Was a Good Gangster”: Honor and Religion in The YouTube Channel Grim Hustle
    Feichtinger, Christian (2024) , S. 105-121
    In May 2022, the YouTube channel Grim Hustle launched a series of short videos containing life advice, rules for life, and motivational speeches by a “Russian mafia boss”. Although the protagonist was soon identified as an actor, the channel gained more than one million followers within eighteen months of its launch. The channel’s main narrative is the call for a return to traditional values and habits, most notably honor, as an antidote to a modern, “broken” society that is dismissed as corrupting and oppressive. Traditional religion is promoted by the channel as a vital part of old values and habits. The article focuses on the representation of religion in the channel’s videos and how it is shaped by the underlying concept of honor.
  • Article
    Make the Impossible Possible: Time Travel as a Transcendent Motif: Editorial
    Eberhardt, Marie Verena; Höpflinger, Anna-Katharina (2024) , S. 7-20
    The editorial sheds light on some important aspects of the motif of time travel and introduces the articles of the issue.