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Thanato-Laboratorien. Theorien von Tod und Sterben und Elias Canettis BUCH GEGEN DEN TOD

Author(s): Heyne, Elisabeth

Abstract

Although visual culture of the 21th century increasingly focuses on representation of death and dying, contemporary discourses still lack a language of death adequate to the event shown by pictures and visual images from an outside point of view. Following this observation, this article suggests a re-reading of 20th century author Elias Canetti. His lifelong notes have been edited and published posthumously for the first time in 2014. Thanks to this edition Canetti's short texts and aphorisms can be focused as a textual laboratory in which he tries to model a language of death on experimental practices of natural sciences. The miniature series of experiments address the problem of death, not representable in discourses of cultural studies, system theory or history of knowledge, and in doing so, Canetti creates liminal texts at the margins of western concepts of (human) life, science and established textual form.

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Heyne, Elisabeth: Thanato-Laboratorien. Theorien von Tod und Sterben und Elias Canettis BUCH GEGEN DEN TOD. In: Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, Jg. 4 (2019), Nr. 1, S. 67-86. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16148.
@ARTICLE{Heyne2019,
 author = {Heyne, Elisabeth},
 title = {Thanato-Laboratorien. Theorien von Tod und Sterben und Elias Canettis BUCH GEGEN DEN TOD},
 year = 2019,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16148}",
 volume = 4,
 address = {Berlin},
 journal = {Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift},
 number = 1,
 pages = {67--86},
}
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