Kristina Mendicino
Biographic Data
| ID | 1022325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristina Mendicino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Mendicino |
| SIGNATURE | MENDICINO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Charlie Louth. Crossings
Symbolic Death and the Eccentric Sphere
Insofar as the caesura of tragic temporality and the movement of “tragic transport’” are said to be shaped by a tendency toward the “eccentric sphere of the dead” in Friedrich Hölderlin’s “Remarks on Oedipus”, the privileged position of this sphere within Hölderlin’s “Remarks” solicits further analysis of what this topos signifies within both Hölderlin’s poetological writings and his translation of Oedipus the King. How does the “eccentric sphere…
Out of Use
This article offers a reading of the notion of “reading” that marks the pragmatic hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and Simone Weil. Whereas existence, for both Weil and the early Heidegger, entails a pretheoretical understanding of everyday operations, the occasions for employing such understanding also allow for diverse “readings” which do not necessarily “work,” but which instead permit a radical suspension of the very foundations for use. Thro…
Coming to (Language)
No Telling, Beginning with Gravity’s Rainbow
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsKristina MendicinoKristina Mendicino is Associate Professor of German Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Passive Voices (On the Subject of Phenomenology and Other Figures of Speech (2023), Announcements: On Novelty (2020) and Prophecies of Language: The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism (2016). Ema…
Beyond the Phenomena
Beyond the Phenomena:Husserl, Abraham, Rilke Kristina Mendicino (bio) When Edmund Husserl describes the perceptual constitution of things in, among others, his lecture course from 1907, Ding und Raum, his rigorous logic of analysis is crossed through with a rhetoric of desire. To begin, the given "contents" of sensory data are found to contain no such thing as the adumbration of an identifiable object until our acts of apprehension lend them surp…
Vivisections
In “Das Belebende,” the last of his “Pindar‐Fragmente,” Friedrich Hölderlin retraces a scene of genesis without generation, in an unheard of combination of verse and prose, which may initially appear to be written in German, but which, upon closer examination, shows itself to be composed in multiple languages at once. Throughout his text, the limits of a national language, as well as nature, as they may conventionally be understood, are broken th…
Introductory Note
Introductory Note Kristina Mendicino (bio) and Gerhard Richter, Guest Editors (bio) "It is dangerous to be an heir." —Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra The articles gathered in this special issue of MLN are, for the most part, based on papers delivered at an international conference entitled "Inheriting the Frankfurt School," organized by Kristina Mendicino and Gerhard Richter at Brown University on 23–24 September 2016. The conference explicitly…
Introduction
Introduction:Of Rights, in Other Directions—Romantic Prepositions Kristina Mendicino There can be no talk of politics that does not also, implicitly or explicitly, address language in a way that exceeds all particular policies and objectives; and there can be none of community that does not also give word of the radical finitude and uncertainty that affect every communication. For whether one says, with Hannah Arendt, that "speech is what makes m…
Oppositional Views and Apositional Points
Oppositional Views and Apositional Points:Addressing the Practice of Theory in Marx Kristina Mendicino Under the sub-heading, "Practical Solution and Theoretical Problem. Why theory?" Louis Althusser addresses the practical problem of situating the distinction between "the Marxist dialectic" and "the Hegelian dialectic": To say that it is a theoretical problem implies that we are not dealing merely with an imaginary difficulty, but with a really …
Contingencies of Inheritance
Contingencies of Inheritance:On Benjamin's and Nietzsche's Like Marks Kristina Mendicino (bio) There may be something contingent about inheritance, besides the way it can never be settled in advance, if it is to proceed. For would not at least a touch of uncertainty color each instance of inheriting what may subsist of others' matters—and perhaps of matters that were never an issue of belonging or possession in the first place? Inherence and subs…
Before Truth
Walter Benjamin’s distinction of truth from knowledge in his “Epistemo-Critical Prologue” marks a fundamental break with the truth claims of the empirical sciences, as well as those of any system of philosophy—phenomenological, neo-Kantian, or otherwise—that would be based on conscious cognition. Instead he renders the truth of philosophy as a question of presentation, beginning with one of the most famous propositions of his oeuvre: “It is prope…
Undoing—Creation—Anew
Undoing—Creation—Anew:On Else Lasker-Schüler's Der Siebente Tag and the Neue Gemeinschaft Kristina Mendicino (bio) Before the avant-garde movements with which Else Lasker-Schüler would be associated during and after her collaboration with Herwarth Walden on Der Sturm, she participated in the Neue Gemeinschaft, a collective that should have been, as its members repeatedly proclaimed, at the vanguard of a new life, and at a nigh-immeasurable distan…
A Weak Messianic Power
The times to come that Michael Levine describes in his book, A Weak Messianic Power: Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan, do not prefigure a messianic arrival, nor do they present any potential future that could be anticipated, dismissed, or conclusively figured out. Instead, the times at issue in this book are those “long-forgotten moments” whose futures already “nest eloquently” within them, as Walter Benjamin, with whom L…
Places of Elision
Places of Elision Kristina Mendicino (bio) Die abgewrackten Tabus, und die Grenzgängerei zwischen ihnen, weltennaß, auf Bedeutungsjagd, auf Bedeutungsflucht. There: Where? “There” cannot be pointed out, nor can it be predicated upon. It is not a place, nor is it an “it.” One cannot arrive “there,” because one is already “there,” just as every word that is spoken or written, including these here, is there. And yet, what is “there” is always elsewh…
Yes-yet-hegel's Oracle
This article proposes a reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit as a translation project akin to that of Luther's Bible and Voss's Homer, following Hegel's own placement of his work within this lineage of major Ger-man translations. Different from his predecessors, however, Hegel does not translate a canonical text from the Western tradition, but rather strives to translate a theological-philosophical language that does not yet exist. In this …
An Other Rhetoric
An Other Rhetoric:Paul Celan's Meridian Kristina Mendicino (bio) "Meine Damen und Herren!"1 With these words, Paul Celan's 1960 Georg-Büchner-Preis-Rede Der Meridian commences its claim upon the audience, and allows itself to be claimed by a tradition of rhetorical conventions—such as the apostrophe, "Meine Damen und Herren." For all its banality, this call to the assembly in Darmstadt also calls attention to itself. At first glance "Meine Damen …
A Televisual Inferno
December 01 2006 A Televisual Inferno: Tea Alagic's preparadise, sorry now Kristina Mendicino Kristina Mendicino Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Kristina Mendicino Online ISSN: 1531-4715 Print ISSN: 1054-2043 © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 TDR/The Drama Review (2006) 50 (4 (192)): 171–177. https://doi.org/10.1162/dram.2006.50.4.171 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share…
Undoing—Creation—Anew
Undoing—Creation—Anew:On Else Lasker-Schüler's Der Siebente Tag and the Neue Gemeinschaft Kristina Mendicino (bio) Before the avant-garde movements with which Else Lasker-Schüler would be associated during and after her collaboration with Herwarth Walden on Der Sturm, she participated in the Neue Gemeinschaft, a collective that should have been, as its members repeatedly proclaimed, at the vanguard of a new life, and at a nigh-immeasurable distan…
A Televisual Inferno
December 01 2006 A Televisual Inferno: Tea Alagic's preparadise, sorry now Kristina Mendicino Kristina Mendicino Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Kristina Mendicino Online ISSN: 1531-4715 Print ISSN: 1054-2043 © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 TDR/The Drama Review (2006) 50 (4 (192)): 171–177. https://doi.org/10.1162/dram.2006.50.4.171 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share…
An Other Rhetoric
An Other Rhetoric:Paul Celan's Meridian Kristina Mendicino (bio) "Meine Damen und Herren!"1 With these words, Paul Celan's 1960 Georg-Büchner-Preis-Rede Der Meridian commences its claim upon the audience, and allows itself to be claimed by a tradition of rhetorical conventions—such as the apostrophe, "Meine Damen und Herren." For all its banality, this call to the assembly in Darmstadt also calls attention to itself. At first glance "Meine Damen …
Places of Elision
Places of Elision Kristina Mendicino (bio) Die abgewrackten Tabus, und die Grenzgängerei zwischen ihnen, weltennaß, auf Bedeutungsjagd, auf Bedeutungsflucht. There: Where? “There” cannot be pointed out, nor can it be predicated upon. It is not a place, nor is it an “it.” One cannot arrive “there,” because one is already “there,” just as every word that is spoken or written, including these here, is there. And yet, what is “there” is always elsewh…
Yes-yet-hegel's Oracle
This article proposes a reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit as a translation project akin to that of Luther's Bible and Voss's Homer, following Hegel's own placement of his work within this lineage of major Ger-man translations. Different from his predecessors, however, Hegel does not translate a canonical text from the Western tradition, but rather strives to translate a theological-philosophical language that does not yet exist. In this …
A Weak Messianic Power
The times to come that Michael Levine describes in his book, A Weak Messianic Power: Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan, do not prefigure a messianic arrival, nor do they present any potential future that could be anticipated, dismissed, or conclusively figured out. Instead, the times at issue in this book are those “long-forgotten moments” whose futures already “nest eloquently” within them, as Walter Benjamin, with whom L…
Before Truth
Walter Benjamin’s distinction of truth from knowledge in his “Epistemo-Critical Prologue” marks a fundamental break with the truth claims of the empirical sciences, as well as those of any system of philosophy—phenomenological, neo-Kantian, or otherwise—that would be based on conscious cognition. Instead he renders the truth of philosophy as a question of presentation, beginning with one of the most famous propositions of his oeuvre: “It is prope…
Undoing—Creation—Anew
Undoing—Creation—Anew:On Else Lasker-Schüler's Der Siebente Tag and the Neue Gemeinschaft Kristina Mendicino (bio) Before the avant-garde movements with which Else Lasker-Schüler would be associated during and after her collaboration with Herwarth Walden on Der Sturm, she participated in the Neue Gemeinschaft, a collective that should have been, as its members repeatedly proclaimed, at the vanguard of a new life, and at a nigh-immeasurable distan…
Vivisections
In “Das Belebende,” the last of his “Pindar‐Fragmente,” Friedrich Hölderlin retraces a scene of genesis without generation, in an unheard of combination of verse and prose, which may initially appear to be written in German, but which, upon closer examination, shows itself to be composed in multiple languages at once. Throughout his text, the limits of a national language, as well as nature, as they may conventionally be understood, are broken th…
Introductory Note
Introductory Note Kristina Mendicino (bio) and Gerhard Richter, Guest Editors (bio) "It is dangerous to be an heir." —Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra The articles gathered in this special issue of MLN are, for the most part, based on papers delivered at an international conference entitled "Inheriting the Frankfurt School," organized by Kristina Mendicino and Gerhard Richter at Brown University on 23–24 September 2016. The conference explicitly…
Introduction
Introduction:Of Rights, in Other Directions—Romantic Prepositions Kristina Mendicino There can be no talk of politics that does not also, implicitly or explicitly, address language in a way that exceeds all particular policies and objectives; and there can be none of community that does not also give word of the radical finitude and uncertainty that affect every communication. For whether one says, with Hannah Arendt, that "speech is what makes m…
Oppositional Views and Apositional Points
Oppositional Views and Apositional Points:Addressing the Practice of Theory in Marx Kristina Mendicino Under the sub-heading, "Practical Solution and Theoretical Problem. Why theory?" Louis Althusser addresses the practical problem of situating the distinction between "the Marxist dialectic" and "the Hegelian dialectic": To say that it is a theoretical problem implies that we are not dealing merely with an imaginary difficulty, but with a really …
Contingencies of Inheritance
Contingencies of Inheritance:On Benjamin's and Nietzsche's Like Marks Kristina Mendicino (bio) There may be something contingent about inheritance, besides the way it can never be settled in advance, if it is to proceed. For would not at least a touch of uncertainty color each instance of inheriting what may subsist of others' matters—and perhaps of matters that were never an issue of belonging or possession in the first place? Inherence and subs…
Beyond the Phenomena
Beyond the Phenomena:Husserl, Abraham, Rilke Kristina Mendicino (bio) When Edmund Husserl describes the perceptual constitution of things in, among others, his lecture course from 1907, Ding und Raum, his rigorous logic of analysis is crossed through with a rhetoric of desire. To begin, the given "contents" of sensory data are found to contain no such thing as the adumbration of an identifiable object until our acts of apprehension lend them surp…
Coming to (Language)
No Telling, Beginning with Gravity’s Rainbow
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsKristina MendicinoKristina Mendicino is Associate Professor of German Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Passive Voices (On the Subject of Phenomenology and Other Figures of Speech (2023), Announcements: On Novelty (2020) and Prophecies of Language: The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism (2016). Ema…
Out of Use
This article offers a reading of the notion of “reading” that marks the pragmatic hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and Simone Weil. Whereas existence, for both Weil and the early Heidegger, entails a pretheoretical understanding of everyday operations, the occasions for employing such understanding also allow for diverse “readings” which do not necessarily “work,” but which instead permit a radical suspension of the very foundations for use. Thro…
Symbolic Death and the Eccentric Sphere
Insofar as the caesura of tragic temporality and the movement of “tragic transport’” are said to be shaped by a tendency toward the “eccentric sphere of the dead” in Friedrich Hölderlin’s “Remarks on Oedipus”, the privileged position of this sphere within Hölderlin’s “Remarks” solicits further analysis of what this topos signifies within both Hölderlin’s poetological writings and his translation of Oedipus the King. How does the “eccentric sphere…
Charlie Louth. Crossings
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