Graeme Gilloch
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 249848 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Graeme Gilloch |
| NOMBRES | Graeme |
| APELLIDO | Gilloch |
| FIRMA | GILLOCH G |
| AFILIACIONES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6157-8920 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Winter Fool
This paper uses a constellation of motifs and figures from the writings of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin to unfold the legendary character of Tyll Eulenspiegel as portrayed in Daniel Kehlmann’s Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, Tyll (2017; English translation 2020). A motley of trickster, acrobat, hoaxer and clown, Tyll is transplanted by Kehlmann from the fourteenth century into the midst of the Thirty Years War (1618-48) and plies his itineran…
Tatort
Drawing principally on the writings of the Critical Theorists Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer, this paper considers the contemporary neo-noir detective story in relation to three interwoven themes/motifs: spatiality (scenes, sites and settings); temporality (time and narrational arc); and, characterization (the detective as a figure of repetition and melancholy). Combining the traits and practices of flaneur, ragpicker and collector, the d…
Feeling Real, Feeling Free
This paper sets Scott’s original film Blade Runner (1982) and Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 (2017) in a ‘disjunctive synthesis’ in order to provide critical analyses of both films with respect to some complex configurations of the body along two axes: bio-politics and the spectacle. We offer a reading of these configurations by focusing on the relationships between the human (organic), the non-human (android) and the immaterial (holographic); th…
Introduction
In this introduction, we thank those who supported and contributed to our special issue of Classical Sociology, on the work and life of André Gorz. We then provide a sketch of Gorz's place in intellectual history. Along the way, we explain some of our motivations for editing the special issue, then move on to a discussion of our contributors' papers. We end with a reiteration of our goals for the issue, and with thanks once more to those who help…
The 'Heron
In Farewell to the Working Class,1 (1982), a book dedicated to his wife Dorine, André Gorz (1923-2007) offers the reader 'Nine Theses for a Future Left'. Here, I borrow and play with this nomenclature for a series of reflections on the two volumes which constitute Gorz's most personal writings and which book-end, so to speak, his oeuvre: The Traitor and Letter to D. A Love Story. More precisely, this is a viewing of the former text through the le…
Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication
This book brings together a broad selection of Siegfried Kracauer’s work on media and political communication, much of it previously unavailable in English. It features writings spanning more than two decades, from the 1930s to the early Cold War period.
Cool premonitions
Jean Baudrillard's highly controversial book America (published in French 1986, English translation 1988) constitutes the point of departure for an undergraduate class writing project which began in 2020. Students were encouraged to respond to the following prompt: what would an America 2.0 look like today in the midst of the Trump presidency? Here we have assembled and arranged the numerous fragments contributed by the students and the editors a…
Sociography
Sociology is just as much an art form as it is a science. And while sociologists and those in cognate disciplines have long experimented with their writing, the search for new academic forms and practices has acquired new urgency and potentiality. How we write up our research is of paramount importance: our language can be used in experimental and innovative ways to offer nuanced, critical commentary without foreclosing alternative viewpoints, an…
Rythmes, ornements et masses
L’article présente l’étude de Siegfried Kracauer, Totalitäre Propaganda, au regard des thèmes et intentions que l’on trouve dans trois de ses écrits de la fin des années 1920, à savoir son essai de 1927 sur les chorégraphies des Tiller Girls (« L’ornement de la masse ») ; ses critiques et commentaires sur le film de Walter Ruttmann, Berlin, symphonie d’une grande ville (1927), et son ethnographie pionnière des employés de bureau berlinois (Les Em…
Rues de Busan et d’ailleurs. Partie 2
Cet article fait partie d’une recherche en cours pionnière dans la mise en place de rythmanalyse de la ville portuaire de Busan en Corée du Sud. Ici la réflexion se base sur les aspects méthodologiques de la rythmanalyse et de son application au travail sur le terrain. Prenant la rythmanalyse comme un mode/une pratique expérimentale et incarnée pour saisir les flux et les modèles d’expérience urbaine quotidienne, nous présentons certaines de nos …
Noir sans frontiers
Noir sans frontiers
Une des premières incarnations du flâneur, comme l’a montré astucieusement Walter Benjamin dans les Passages et ailleurs, nous la retrouvons dans la figure du détective urbain comme a été conçu dans les écrits d’Edgar Allan Poe et Eugène Sue. Notre réflexion ici se base sur cet indentification et nous considérerons brièvement aussi les multiples incarnations du flâneur dans la signification de la flânerie transnationale dans le contexte culturel …
Ink-Play”
Dans cet article, nous explorons deux aspects interconnectés de la pensée de Walter Benjamin qui ont reçu une attention limitée : la figure du peintre chinois comme un exemple d’art traditionnel et la réflexion de Benjamin sur les tableaux chinois que l’on retrouve dans une chronique artistique à propos d’une exposition tenue à Paris en 1937. Lire de façon combinée ces réflexions sur les artistes chinois et l’art offre un point de vue particulier…
Rues de Busan et d’ailleurs. Partie 1. Prolégomènes
Cet article est une introduction, plus particulièrement un prologue théorico-méthodologique à un essai pionnier de rythmanalyse de Busan, ville portuaire de Corée. Il est basé sur quatre mois de recherche collaborative d’un travail sur le terrain entrepris à l’automne 2014. Ici les trois influences théoriques clés qui structurent ce travail (Lefebvre, Kracauer et Augé) sont présentées et liées à certaines réflexions critiques sur « Dynamic Busan …
Scp>Kracauer,Siegfried (1889–1966)
This entry provides an overview of the work of the critical theorist Siegfried Kracauer and his distinctive contributions to sociology. It offers a chronological sketch of his major works and a guide to further reading in English
Eurydice at Euston
Taking as its point of departure Walter Benjamin’s repeatedly unsuccessful attempt to give spatial form to his past, this paper suggests that it is perhaps the contemporary French anthropologist, Marc Augé, who provides the most appropriate envisioning of a ‘map of memories’ in his brief writings on the Parisian métro system. For Augé, the labyrinthine subway network constitutes nothing less than a ‘memory machine’ in which lines and station name…
Rythmes urbains et la vie quotidienne
Ce travail examine le problème de l’expérience urbaine en s’appuyant sur la notion lefebvrienne de rythmanalyse. Il est favorable à une perspective sur la vie urbaine attentive à la (re)construction et au (re)déploiement du temps et de l’espace, et à leur mise en forme. La rythmanalyse commence par une attention réflexive aux répétitions naturelles et aux cycles du corps humain et s’étend ensuite à d’autres phénomènes naturels dans l’environnemen…
The City and the City
Fragments, Cityscapes, Modernity. Kracauer on the Cannebière
Written as a small tribute to David Frisby’s inspiring, pioneering work on Critical Theory and the modern cityscape, this essay explores a number of feuilletons and other textual fragments in which the cultural theorist Siegfried Kracauer expresses his enduring fascination with the French port of Marseilles. It is suggested that this city has a two-fold significance for him: firstly, in the vibrancy of its street-life, Marseilles is an exemplary,…
The Angel over Alabama
This paper critically explores selected motifs and figures in Allen Shelton’s poetic and painful collection of essays Dreamworlds of Alabama, complex and convoluted texts which explore his native locality of Jacksonville through the lenses of (European) cultural theory, literary studies, and individual experience, affect and memory. Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s ‘Arcades Project’ and ‘Berlin Childhood Around 1900’, these writings intertwine to pr…
Ad Lib
The writings of the German–Jewish social /cultural theorist Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) have been overshadowed until recently by those of his contemporaries and colleagues, Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. Indeed, all too often judged exclusively on the basis of his post-war English-language writings on film and cinema, Kracauer has long been misread and maligned in the Anglophone academy as a naive ‘realist’ film theorist. Fortunately, …
Pictures of the past
This article explores the key moments in Benjamin's and Barthes's analyses of the cultural significance of the photograph. For Benjamin these are: the optical unconscious, the transmission of aura, the representation of cultural and political decay and proto-surrealist political commentary. For Barthes they are: the techniques of the photographer, the studium, the punctum and the ecstasy of the image. These rather different approaches to photogra…
The figure that fascinates’
(1997). ‘The figure that fascinates’: Seductive strangers in Benjamin and Baudrillard. Renaissance and Modern Studies: Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 17-29
Benjamin and the Architecture of History
Susan Buck-Morss The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989)
Three Biographical Studies of Walter Benjamin
Along with German re-unification, a much quieter and more subdued series of events took place in Berlin in 1990: those marking the fiftieth anniversary of the tragic death of one of the city's most intriguing intellectual sons: Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). A forgotten figure in the immediate post-war period, he is now recognised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation. 1990 saw the publication of two biographical studies and the prepa…
Pictures of the past
This article explores the key moments in Benjamin's and Barthes's analyses of the cultural significance of the photograph. For Benjamin these are: the optical unconscious, the transmission of aura, the representation of cultural and political decay and proto-surrealist political commentary. For Barthes they are: the techniques of the photographer, the studium, the punctum and the ecstasy of the image. These rather different approaches to photogra…
Sociography
Sociology is just as much an art form as it is a science. And while sociologists and those in cognate disciplines have long experimented with their writing, the search for new academic forms and practices has acquired new urgency and potentiality. How we write up our research is of paramount importance: our language can be used in experimental and innovative ways to offer nuanced, critical commentary without foreclosing alternative viewpoints, an…
Introduction
In this introduction, we thank those who supported and contributed to our special issue of Classical Sociology, on the work and life of André Gorz. We then provide a sketch of Gorz's place in intellectual history. Along the way, we explain some of our motivations for editing the special issue, then move on to a discussion of our contributors' papers. We end with a reiteration of our goals for the issue, and with thanks once more to those who help…
Ink-Play”
Dans cet article, nous explorons deux aspects interconnectés de la pensée de Walter Benjamin qui ont reçu une attention limitée : la figure du peintre chinois comme un exemple d’art traditionnel et la réflexion de Benjamin sur les tableaux chinois que l’on retrouve dans une chronique artistique à propos d’une exposition tenue à Paris en 1937. Lire de façon combinée ces réflexions sur les artistes chinois et l’art offre un point de vue particulier…
Eurydice at Euston
Taking as its point of departure Walter Benjamin’s repeatedly unsuccessful attempt to give spatial form to his past, this paper suggests that it is perhaps the contemporary French anthropologist, Marc Augé, who provides the most appropriate envisioning of a ‘map of memories’ in his brief writings on the Parisian métro system. For Augé, the labyrinthine subway network constitutes nothing less than a ‘memory machine’ in which lines and station name…
Fragments, Cityscapes, Modernity. Kracauer on the Cannebière
Written as a small tribute to David Frisby’s inspiring, pioneering work on Critical Theory and the modern cityscape, this essay explores a number of feuilletons and other textual fragments in which the cultural theorist Siegfried Kracauer expresses his enduring fascination with the French port of Marseilles. It is suggested that this city has a two-fold significance for him: firstly, in the vibrancy of its street-life, Marseilles is an exemplary,…
The Heroic Pedestrian or the Pedestrian Hero? Walter Benjamin and the Flaneur
Among the concerns of Walter Benjamin's giant mosaic of 19th century Parisian cultural life, the Passagenarbeit, and his related studies of Baudelaire, one of the most perplexing figures is the flaneur. Although the lone individual wandering within urban labyrinths appears in Benjamin's other city sketches, he thought that “Paris created the flaneur as a type” (M1, 4 PW p. 525). He is the stroller — the pedestrian who finds delight in ambling con…
Benjamin and the Architecture of History
Susan Buck-Morss The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989)
Three Biographical Studies of Walter Benjamin
Along with German re-unification, a much quieter and more subdued series of events took place in Berlin in 1990: those marking the fiftieth anniversary of the tragic death of one of the city's most intriguing intellectual sons: Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). A forgotten figure in the immediate post-war period, he is now recognised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation. 1990 saw the publication of two biographical studies and the prepa…
The Heroic Pedestrian or the Pedestrian Hero? Walter Benjamin and the Flaneur
Among the concerns of Walter Benjamin's giant mosaic of 19th century Parisian cultural life, the Passagenarbeit, and his related studies of Baudelaire, one of the most perplexing figures is the flaneur. Although the lone individual wandering within urban labyrinths appears in Benjamin's other city sketches, he thought that “Paris created the flaneur as a type” (M1, 4 PW p. 525). He is the stroller — the pedestrian who finds delight in ambling con…
The figure that fascinates’
(1997). ‘The figure that fascinates’: Seductive strangers in Benjamin and Baudrillard. Renaissance and Modern Studies: Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 17-29
Pictures of the past
This article explores the key moments in Benjamin's and Barthes's analyses of the cultural significance of the photograph. For Benjamin these are: the optical unconscious, the transmission of aura, the representation of cultural and political decay and proto-surrealist political commentary. For Barthes they are: the techniques of the photographer, the studium, the punctum and the ecstasy of the image. These rather different approaches to photogra…
The Angel over Alabama
This paper critically explores selected motifs and figures in Allen Shelton’s poetic and painful collection of essays Dreamworlds of Alabama, complex and convoluted texts which explore his native locality of Jacksonville through the lenses of (European) cultural theory, literary studies, and individual experience, affect and memory. Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s ‘Arcades Project’ and ‘Berlin Childhood Around 1900’, these writings intertwine to pr…
Ad Lib
The writings of the German–Jewish social /cultural theorist Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) have been overshadowed until recently by those of his contemporaries and colleagues, Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. Indeed, all too often judged exclusively on the basis of his post-war English-language writings on film and cinema, Kracauer has long been misread and maligned in the Anglophone academy as a naive ‘realist’ film theorist. Fortunately, …
The City and the City
Fragments, Cityscapes, Modernity. Kracauer on the Cannebière
Written as a small tribute to David Frisby’s inspiring, pioneering work on Critical Theory and the modern cityscape, this essay explores a number of feuilletons and other textual fragments in which the cultural theorist Siegfried Kracauer expresses his enduring fascination with the French port of Marseilles. It is suggested that this city has a two-fold significance for him: firstly, in the vibrancy of its street-life, Marseilles is an exemplary,…
Rythmes urbains et la vie quotidienne
Ce travail examine le problème de l’expérience urbaine en s’appuyant sur la notion lefebvrienne de rythmanalyse. Il est favorable à une perspective sur la vie urbaine attentive à la (re)construction et au (re)déploiement du temps et de l’espace, et à leur mise en forme. La rythmanalyse commence par une attention réflexive aux répétitions naturelles et aux cycles du corps humain et s’étend ensuite à d’autres phénomènes naturels dans l’environnemen…
Eurydice at Euston
Taking as its point of departure Walter Benjamin’s repeatedly unsuccessful attempt to give spatial form to his past, this paper suggests that it is perhaps the contemporary French anthropologist, Marc Augé, who provides the most appropriate envisioning of a ‘map of memories’ in his brief writings on the Parisian métro system. For Augé, the labyrinthine subway network constitutes nothing less than a ‘memory machine’ in which lines and station name…
Ink-Play”
Dans cet article, nous explorons deux aspects interconnectés de la pensée de Walter Benjamin qui ont reçu une attention limitée : la figure du peintre chinois comme un exemple d’art traditionnel et la réflexion de Benjamin sur les tableaux chinois que l’on retrouve dans une chronique artistique à propos d’une exposition tenue à Paris en 1937. Lire de façon combinée ces réflexions sur les artistes chinois et l’art offre un point de vue particulier…
Rues de Busan et d’ailleurs. Partie 1. Prolégomènes
Cet article est une introduction, plus particulièrement un prologue théorico-méthodologique à un essai pionnier de rythmanalyse de Busan, ville portuaire de Corée. Il est basé sur quatre mois de recherche collaborative d’un travail sur le terrain entrepris à l’automne 2014. Ici les trois influences théoriques clés qui structurent ce travail (Lefebvre, Kracauer et Augé) sont présentées et liées à certaines réflexions critiques sur « Dynamic Busan …
Scp>Kracauer,Siegfried (1889–1966)
This entry provides an overview of the work of the critical theorist Siegfried Kracauer and his distinctive contributions to sociology. It offers a chronological sketch of his major works and a guide to further reading in English
Noir sans frontiers
Noir sans frontiers
Une des premières incarnations du flâneur, comme l’a montré astucieusement Walter Benjamin dans les Passages et ailleurs, nous la retrouvons dans la figure du détective urbain comme a été conçu dans les écrits d’Edgar Allan Poe et Eugène Sue. Notre réflexion ici se base sur cet indentification et nous considérerons brièvement aussi les multiples incarnations du flâneur dans la signification de la flânerie transnationale dans le contexte culturel …
Rues de Busan et d’ailleurs. Partie 2
Cet article fait partie d’une recherche en cours pionnière dans la mise en place de rythmanalyse de la ville portuaire de Busan en Corée du Sud. Ici la réflexion se base sur les aspects méthodologiques de la rythmanalyse et de son application au travail sur le terrain. Prenant la rythmanalyse comme un mode/une pratique expérimentale et incarnée pour saisir les flux et les modèles d’expérience urbaine quotidienne, nous présentons certaines de nos …
Rythmes, ornements et masses
L’article présente l’étude de Siegfried Kracauer, Totalitäre Propaganda, au regard des thèmes et intentions que l’on trouve dans trois de ses écrits de la fin des années 1920, à savoir son essai de 1927 sur les chorégraphies des Tiller Girls (« L’ornement de la masse ») ; ses critiques et commentaires sur le film de Walter Ruttmann, Berlin, symphonie d’une grande ville (1927), et son ethnographie pionnière des employés de bureau berlinois (Les Em…
Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication
This book brings together a broad selection of Siegfried Kracauer’s work on media and political communication, much of it previously unavailable in English. It features writings spanning more than two decades, from the 1930s to the early Cold War period.
Cool premonitions
Jean Baudrillard's highly controversial book America (published in French 1986, English translation 1988) constitutes the point of departure for an undergraduate class writing project which began in 2020. Students were encouraged to respond to the following prompt: what would an America 2.0 look like today in the midst of the Trump presidency? Here we have assembled and arranged the numerous fragments contributed by the students and the editors a…
Sociography
Sociology is just as much an art form as it is a science. And while sociologists and those in cognate disciplines have long experimented with their writing, the search for new academic forms and practices has acquired new urgency and potentiality. How we write up our research is of paramount importance: our language can be used in experimental and innovative ways to offer nuanced, critical commentary without foreclosing alternative viewpoints, an…
Feeling Real, Feeling Free
This paper sets Scott’s original film Blade Runner (1982) and Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 (2017) in a ‘disjunctive synthesis’ in order to provide critical analyses of both films with respect to some complex configurations of the body along two axes: bio-politics and the spectacle. We offer a reading of these configurations by focusing on the relationships between the human (organic), the non-human (android) and the immaterial (holographic); th…
Introduction
In this introduction, we thank those who supported and contributed to our special issue of Classical Sociology, on the work and life of André Gorz. We then provide a sketch of Gorz's place in intellectual history. Along the way, we explain some of our motivations for editing the special issue, then move on to a discussion of our contributors' papers. We end with a reiteration of our goals for the issue, and with thanks once more to those who help…
The 'Heron
In Farewell to the Working Class,1 (1982), a book dedicated to his wife Dorine, André Gorz (1923-2007) offers the reader 'Nine Theses for a Future Left'. Here, I borrow and play with this nomenclature for a series of reflections on the two volumes which constitute Gorz's most personal writings and which book-end, so to speak, his oeuvre: The Traitor and Letter to D. A Love Story. More precisely, this is a viewing of the former text through the le…
Tatort
Drawing principally on the writings of the Critical Theorists Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer, this paper considers the contemporary neo-noir detective story in relation to three interwoven themes/motifs: spatiality (scenes, sites and settings); temporality (time and narrational arc); and, characterization (the detective as a figure of repetition and melancholy). Combining the traits and practices of flaneur, ragpicker and collector, the d…
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