Wolf Kittler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1165702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolf Kittler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolf |
| FAMILY NAME | Kittler |
| SIGNATURE | KITTLER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-5717-6165 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Alienation, Synchronization, Imitation
In this article, I have tried to measure the distance that separates us from Kafka by trying to register both the things that we still have in common with him and his time, and the many things that have changed in between. The first section is an analysis of the story “A Visit to a Mine” in terms of the new accident prevention techniques instituted by the welfare state at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. The second section d…
Writing in the Time of Photo-, Phono-, and Cinematography. On Images in Franz Kafka’s Novel The Trial
The new edition of Kafka's Drawings adds new material to the well-known fact that, in addition to his interests in both art history and the art of his own time, Kafka was a highly original draughtsman himself. Yet, it also shows that he stopped practicing these skills well before time of what he called his breakthrough to "the only way writing could be done." Nonetheless, the pictorial arts kept playing a decisive role not only in his writings, b…
War and Literary Studies
Introduction
Introduction:Keeping Time Jocelyn Holland (bio) and Wolf Kittler (bio) Already in what they call their “pre-history,” humans kept, measured, and calculated time by looking at the revolutions of the sun, the planets, and the stars in the sky. Within the long history of time, one could define modernity by two technological innovations that shift timekeeping from the macrocosm to the microcosm. The first innovation, an initial step away from astrono…
Kurt Schwitters
O Aphrodite!
Kleists ›Penthesilea‹ — neben der ›Herrmannsschlacht‹ das kriegerischste seiner Stücke — inszeniert ein komplexes Spiel zwischen Innen und Außen, technischer ausgedrückt: zwischen dem, was den Augen potentieller Zuschauer auf der Bühne erscheint, und dem, was — sei es aus zeitlichen oder aus räumlichen Gründen — nicht sichtbar gemacht, nicht in Szene gesetzt werden kann. Schon die drei ersten Auftritte zeigen, was Goethe meinte, als er mit Bezug …
"Burial Without Resurrection. On Kafka's Legend "Before the Law
Why, of all places, is the legend "Before the Law" narrated, interpreted and discussed "In the Dom,"1 to quote the chapter's title? If you expect that the various attempts to trace that story back to kabalistic or Chassidic sources would at least ask, if not answer that question, you will be disappointed. As usual, the author's civil and religious identities predetermine certain questions while excluding others. Kafka was a Jew. Hence there is no…
Heimlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit
(2003). Heimlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit: Das osterreichische Strafprozessrecht in Franz Kafkas Roman Der Proces. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 78, Kafka and the Theater, pp. 194-222
The Dioskuroi
In order to always find my way to a particular little hotel in Venice, I did not need a map or a name: I simply had to enter the maze of channels and streets through the exact same gate in the enclosure of the Piazza di San Marco. But when it turned out that, without reference to a precise block number, I would never be able to locate the three movie theaters in the gridiron matrix of downtown Santa Barbara, the illusions of infallibility I had h…
Die Klauen der Sirenen
1 Franz Kafka, Briefe an Felice [Bauer] und andere Korrespondenz aus der Verlobungszeit, hg. Erich Heller und Jirgen Born, Schocken Books: New York, Lizenzausgabe S. Fischer: Frankfurt/Main, Gesammelte Werke, hg. Max Brod, S. 119; dort auch der Fundort des Gedichts: Hans Heilmann, Chinesische Lyrik vom 12.Jahrhundert v. Christus bis zur Gegenwart (Bd 1 der Sammlung 'Die Fruchtschale'), Munchen [1905].-Zitate aus den Briefen an Felice Bauer sind i…
Heimlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit
(2003). Heimlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit: Das osterreichische Strafprozessrecht in Franz Kafkas Roman Der Proces. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 78, Kafka and the Theater, pp. 194-222
Die Klauen der Sirenen
1 Franz Kafka, Briefe an Felice [Bauer] und andere Korrespondenz aus der Verlobungszeit, hg. Erich Heller und Jirgen Born, Schocken Books: New York, Lizenzausgabe S. Fischer: Frankfurt/Main, Gesammelte Werke, hg. Max Brod, S. 119; dort auch der Fundort des Gedichts: Hans Heilmann, Chinesische Lyrik vom 12.Jahrhundert v. Christus bis zur Gegenwart (Bd 1 der Sammlung 'Die Fruchtschale'), Munchen [1905].-Zitate aus den Briefen an Felice Bauer sind i…
The Dioskuroi
In order to always find my way to a particular little hotel in Venice, I did not need a map or a name: I simply had to enter the maze of channels and streets through the exact same gate in the enclosure of the Piazza di San Marco. But when it turned out that, without reference to a precise block number, I would never be able to locate the three movie theaters in the gridiron matrix of downtown Santa Barbara, the illusions of infallibility I had h…
Heimlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit
(2003). Heimlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit: Das osterreichische Strafprozessrecht in Franz Kafkas Roman Der Proces. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 78, Kafka and the Theater, pp. 194-222
"Burial Without Resurrection. On Kafka's Legend "Before the Law
Why, of all places, is the legend "Before the Law" narrated, interpreted and discussed "In the Dom,"1 to quote the chapter's title? If you expect that the various attempts to trace that story back to kabalistic or Chassidic sources would at least ask, if not answer that question, you will be disappointed. As usual, the author's civil and religious identities predetermine certain questions while excluding others. Kafka was a Jew. Hence there is no…
O Aphrodite!
Kleists ›Penthesilea‹ — neben der ›Herrmannsschlacht‹ das kriegerischste seiner Stücke — inszeniert ein komplexes Spiel zwischen Innen und Außen, technischer ausgedrückt: zwischen dem, was den Augen potentieller Zuschauer auf der Bühne erscheint, und dem, was — sei es aus zeitlichen oder aus räumlichen Gründen — nicht sichtbar gemacht, nicht in Szene gesetzt werden kann. Schon die drei ersten Auftritte zeigen, was Goethe meinte, als er mit Bezug …
Kurt Schwitters
Introduction
Introduction:Keeping Time Jocelyn Holland (bio) and Wolf Kittler (bio) Already in what they call their “pre-history,” humans kept, measured, and calculated time by looking at the revolutions of the sun, the planets, and the stars in the sky. Within the long history of time, one could define modernity by two technological innovations that shift timekeeping from the macrocosm to the microcosm. The first innovation, an initial step away from astrono…
War and Literary Studies
Writing in the Time of Photo-, Phono-, and Cinematography. On Images in Franz Kafka’s Novel The Trial
The new edition of Kafka's Drawings adds new material to the well-known fact that, in addition to his interests in both art history and the art of his own time, Kafka was a highly original draughtsman himself. Yet, it also shows that he stopped practicing these skills well before time of what he called his breakthrough to "the only way writing could be done." Nonetheless, the pictorial arts kept playing a decisive role not only in his writings, b…
Alienation, Synchronization, Imitation
In this article, I have tried to measure the distance that separates us from Kafka by trying to register both the things that we still have in common with him and his time, and the many things that have changed in between. The first section is an analysis of the story “A Visit to a Mine” in terms of the new accident prevention techniques instituted by the welfare state at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. The second section d…
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