alexander kluge: a distant reading
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Alexander Kluge: A Case Study in Distant Reading ULg keynote address "Reading/Viewing Kluge" (pre-talk version)TRANSCRIPT
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Alexander Kluge: A Distant Reading
Prof. Gunther Martens Department of Literary Studies
Ghent University
Reading/Viewing Alexander Kluge’s Work – 11/13.12.2013, ULg
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Some definitions
• Distant reading (F. Moretti)• Encyclopaedic literature• Menippean satire: between confession and
parody of knowledge transmission• NER: Named Entity Recognition
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• “Wir haben Worte ausgepreßt, zum Beispiel von Hölderlin, Heraklit, Habermas usf. Ein Widerspruch zwischen den Ergebnissen der Hirnforschung, der Kosmologie, der Quantenphysik und der Macht der Worte existiert nicht. Insofern legen wir unseren Untersuchungsreihen grundsätzlich BEIDES zugrunde: die Macht des Wortes und die Macht der gemessenen Fakten.“ (Chronik der Gefühle)
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Kluge, Die Patriotin (1979)
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Kluge, Chronik der Gefühle (2000)
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Kluge, Tür an Tür mit einem anderen Leben (2006)
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Kluge, Das fünfte Buch(2012)
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Kluge, Chronik der Gefühle(2000)
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Kluge, Tür An Tür mit einem anderen Leben (2006)
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Kluge, Das Bohren harter Bretter (2011)
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“Geschichten ohne Oberbegriffe”• “Stalin et Hitler ne sont pas des personnages historiques
mais des figures littérairement et théâtralement réinventées, non des personages. Ce sont tout d'abord des figures mythiques ayant la consistance de spectres et traversées par des discours ventriloques d'origines diverses et d'extension géographique et historique volatiles.”
(Jean Jourdheuil: “Essai de commentaire de Germania 3: les spectres du Mort-Homme”, in: Le grouillement bariolé des temps. Ed. Herbert Holl. p. 70.)
• “A la condensations du premier [=Müller] fait face la surcharge, voire l'effrangement du second [=Kluge].” (Nikolaus Müller-Schöll 157)
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Heiner Müller
• “hämmerte Heiner Müller nachts einen Dramenentwurf in seine Schreibmaschine” (39)
• “Notierte er auf einem Bierdeckel” (69)• “auf der Rückseite von Bierdeckeln, auf lose
Blätter, Servietten, nachts in die Maschine hämmernd” (DL 443; BS 76)
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Crossmapping
• Aus:
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Patience (After Sebald)
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La carte du monde surréaliste (1929)
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Heidegger auf der Krim
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Covering distance: histoire croisée
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Kluge’s fonts
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Film still with its footnote text
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New tools – old tools
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