Luhmann am Limit
@fuchsflrn
literature, media, phil at Princeton German / projects: socionarratology . theory films . pre-Grimm folklore . early modern personal devices / books: “Civic Storytelling“ . “Hans Blumenberg Reader” . “Affordances of Short Forms” / fuchsflorian.com
Luhmann am Limit
… und “Vize Ferse”?
Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co
Happy about these plant-handbook proofs and excited for the upcoming volume put together by @isabelkranz.bsky.social & @joelalala.bsky.social.
I wrote about vegetal imagination in outer space, radishes on the ISS, and the "astrobiological apriori" – stay tuned!
#Astrobiology #Plantstudies #HistSci
Es wird auch einige Vorträge geben 👇
Presseschau: »Anselm Haverkamps Spätwerk widmet sich Shakespeares Spätwerk. Dass ein Buch dieser intellektuellen Dichte heute kaum noch bei einem großen Publikumsverlag erscheint, sagt viel über den Platz der Literaturwissenschaft.«
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui... #literatur
Sophie war seit Oktober meine Kollegin als Fellow am KWI, es war eine Freude - und wie gut, dass sie zum Ende ihrer Zeit mit uns noch mal in der Krummen Straße war und mit Christian Demand und mir über eine Autorin spricht, die immer noch viel mehr gelesen werden sollte.
very early Schanelec, free streaming
join the Digital Theory Lab Mar 9-11 for Cultural AI: An Emerging Field (RSVP required)
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
Register for the Jameson Conference at Duke! April 10-12: "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory." Link to the registration form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Gotta watch that!
Screengrab from The Division of All Days (w/ Hartmut Bitomsky, 1970).
Screengrab from The Division of All Days (w/ Hartmut Bitomsky, 1970).
Screengrab from The Division of All Days (w/ Hartmut Bitomsky, 1970).
Screengrab from The Division of All Days (w/ Hartmut Bitomsky, 1970).
26. The Division of All Days (w/ Hartmut Bitomsky, 1970). Another recommendation from @fuchsflrn.bsky.social. This is an educational film that teaches class consciousness through Marxist concepts. Reproduces the common trope of educational films that include scenes of their own use in the classroom.
Buchcover: Als ich ein Türke war, zeigt den Autor in seiner “türkischen” Aufmachung, in der Hand ein Foto von ihm als “Deutscher”
Gerade aus dem Buchverschenkschrank gezogen - wusste nicht, dass es 3 Jahre vor Wallraffs “Ganz unten” bereits eine solche investigative Recherche gab.
Hier ein neueres Interview mit Kromschröder:
nghm.hypotheses.org/40168
Great thread on ”epistemic vigilance”, including its implications for reading and parsing LLM-generated info, by my PU colleague @mjcrockett.bsky.social – Thinking about how this could be best crossed with lit studies‘ recent revisiting of close reading as a cognitive practice…
Sounds like a perfect point to discuss your work and the book – hope it was fun? – I'll have to find that blind spot in the email lists I'm subscribed to…
oh no, I somehow missed that you stopped by!
Sounds great, sad to miss that.
"Das erste Fenster, das ich schloss."
Yess!! Ich kann das auch bei Durchzug nicht, klappt nie, oft probiert gerade im Sommer, aber das ist offensichtl ein Konstruktionsfehler: beim kleinsten Lüftchen brechen sie immer am Eck in 2 "" auseinander... finde, schon our dear friend Clippy📎 hätte was sagen können: "Windstille 🤝 Guillemets"
Mati Diop's uniquely haunting – Docu?-Theory?-Essay? – "Dahomey" from 2023 now free at Arte www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...
“One of the most difficult, but important, tasks of our time […]: the task of preserving and of liberating thought from the notion of value.”
— Blanchot, “What Is the Purpose of Criticism?” (from the preface to Lautréamont and Sade)
(trans. S. and M. Kendall)
The famed ethnographic filmmaker Frederick Wiseman died this week. For DOOMSDAY MACHINES, I wrote up some thoughts on his 1988 film “Missile,” which is an incredibly dull but fascinating film about how to train to be a Minuteman launch officer in the mid-1980s. doomsdaymachines.net/p/launching-...
”The history professor is curious to know what role donors play in all this. He’s heard from some colleagues that appointments to endowed professorships need to be approved by the donor. Can this be true?“
reads like ”Provincializing the Valley“
(could be one more sequel, @adriandaub.bsky.social?)
"Provincialising Weimar Culture" is out! @nwbaer.bsky.social, Britta Schilling and I edited a special issue for German Life and Letters on "local and global perspectives on interwar Germany": onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680483....
Truly uncanny to see universities all doing the same suicidal things: centralizing decision-making, erecting bafflingly expensive new buildings, stacking the board with money guys, hiding info about the budget, throwing money at consultants. Atriums everywhere! They all got the same memo.
P.S. Ich sehe gerade bei der NYTimes, dass es für unnötig besondere Seifenablagen sogar die schöne Überkategorie "Trinket Trays" gibt, holprig übersetzbar als "Kinkerlitzschälchen"…
And I should correct "… that the system mainly *likes* to produce", because there are of course great voices and thinkers that 'make it through', still today – but they do that in spite of the system, not thanks to it.
I really hope that cases like @amreibahr.bsky.social's lead to a fundamental rethinking of funding structures and job politics before it's too late – before only the hyper-adapted, streamlined, and often uncreative voices that the system mainly produces today are left. 3/3