Aesthetic experiments: On the Event-Like Character and the Function of Disruptions in the Arts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of contents V
3. Disruption in the Arts: Prologue IX
4. I. Conceptual Approaches
5. Aesthetic experiments: On the Event-Like Character and the Function of Disruptions in the Arts 3
6. Scandalous Expectations: Second Order Scandals in Modern Society 27
7. Ekstasis and Paradoxa. The Miracle as Disruption 37
8. Imagined Scenarios of Disruption. A Concept 63
9. II. Media
10. Disruptive Storytelling. Notes on E.T.A. Hoffmann 85
11. Perturbing the Reader: The Riddle-character of Art and the Dialectical Impact of Contemporary Literature (Adorno, Goetz, Kracht) 105
12. Expansions of the Instant: Disruptions of Time in Contemporary German Literature 117
13. Disruption, Photography, and the Idea of Aesthetic Resistance 133
14. III. Body
15. Interferences: Posthuman Perspectives on Early Electronic Music 189
16. The Dis/rupture of Film as Skin: Jean-Luc Nancy, Claire Denis, and Trouble Every Day 211
17. “They Starve to death, but who dares ask why?”: Steve McQueen’s Film Hunger 231
18. Writing Aphasia: Intermedial Observation of Disrupted Language in Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Arbeit und Struktur 247
19. IV. Power
20. The Red Telephone: A Hybrid Object of the Cold War 275
21. Christoph Schlingensief’s Image Disruption Machine 291
22. Citizen n-1: Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour as a Reparative Reading of a Paranoid World 315
23. V. Archive
24. Notes on Secondary Drama 337
25. Disturbance in the Intermediate: Secondary Drama as a Parasite 339
26. Signal-to-Noise Ratio 347
27. Disrupted Arts and Marginalized Humans: A Commentary on Friedrich Kittler’s “Signal-to-Noise Ratio” 363
28. Contributors 369
29. Index of Subjects 373
30. Index of Persons 379