Richard Langston
Biographic Data
| ID | 1255729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Langston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Langston |
| SIGNATURE | LANGSTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Marxist and Formless
Peter Weiss made no secret of the importance of form for his magnum opus The Aesthetics of Resistance. "Again and again [I've made] new attempts at finding a form for the book," he wrote early on in its conception. This authorial search is, in fact, far more complicated than the long blocks of prose Weiss settled on for the novel. Exemplified in volume 2's opening confrontation with Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa, this searc…
Sous le signe de la fourmi
Il serait vain d’envisager l’un des quatorze longs-métrages réalisés par Alexander Kluge entre 1966 et 1986 comme le couronnement de son œuvre cinématographique, chaque film constituant une expérimentation à part entière, un « work in process » empruntant la forme de l’essai et que Kluge réinterprète inlassablement en le refondant à travers d’autres mediums tels que la prose, la théorie sociale, l’émission télévisée, la vidéo en ligne ou encore l…
Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
Starting with the surprising role the soul assumed in the West German music essay from the early 1980s, this article interrogates a peculiar, misunderstood middle passage in dominant historiographies of German pop literature-the new wave music essay-that transformed itself at the dawn of the 1990s-shortly before the literary phenomenon labeled Popliteratur emerged- by embracing then emergent Anglo-American Cultural Studies. The importance of new …
History and Obstinacy
"If Marx’s opus Capital provided the foundational account of the forces of production in all of their objective, machine formats, what happens when the concepts of political economy are applied not to dead labor, but to its living counterpart, the human subject? The result is Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt’s History and Obstinacy, a groundbreaking archaeology of the labor power that has been cultivated in the human body over the last two thousand…
Straw in the Ice
Landscapes of Ice, Wind, and Snow
Film Studies' Other Times and Spaces
Toward an Ethics of Fantasy
In regular dialogue with one another since the early 1970s, sociologist Oskar Negt and author, filmmaker, and television producer Alexander Kluge have authored three volumes of social philosophy, in which they devote little if any attention to their dialogic method. By situating Negt and Kluge in contradistinction to Jürgen Habermas, this essay argues for Negt and Kluge's very different vision for critical theory after Theodor Adorno, one that in…
The Work of Art as Theory of Work
Peter Weiss first met Alexander Kluge at a special 1962 meeting of Gruppe 47 dedicated to cinema. Weiss left records of this and other subsequent meetings in ensuing years. After an extended hiatus, Kluge (along with Oskar Negt) reappeared in Weiss's notebooks in the guise of their newly published second book of social theory; "Geschichte u. Eigensinn," Weiss jotted in June 1981, taking note of their book's title. This author contends that Weiss'…
Escape from Germany
The Language of Silence
Landscapes of Ice, Wind, and Snow
Toward an Ethics of Fantasy
In regular dialogue with one another since the early 1970s, sociologist Oskar Negt and author, filmmaker, and television producer Alexander Kluge have authored three volumes of social philosophy, in which they devote little if any attention to their dialogic method. By situating Negt and Kluge in contradistinction to Jürgen Habermas, this essay argues for Negt and Kluge's very different vision for critical theory after Theodor Adorno, one that in…
The Work of Art as Theory of Work
Peter Weiss first met Alexander Kluge at a special 1962 meeting of Gruppe 47 dedicated to cinema. Weiss left records of this and other subsequent meetings in ensuing years. After an extended hiatus, Kluge (along with Oskar Negt) reappeared in Weiss's notebooks in the guise of their newly published second book of social theory; "Geschichte u. Eigensinn," Weiss jotted in June 1981, taking note of their book's title. This author contends that Weiss'…
The Language of Silence
Escape from Germany
The Work of Art as Theory of Work
Peter Weiss first met Alexander Kluge at a special 1962 meeting of Gruppe 47 dedicated to cinema. Weiss left records of this and other subsequent meetings in ensuing years. After an extended hiatus, Kluge (along with Oskar Negt) reappeared in Weiss's notebooks in the guise of their newly published second book of social theory; "Geschichte u. Eigensinn," Weiss jotted in June 1981, taking note of their book's title. This author contends that Weiss'…
Toward an Ethics of Fantasy
In regular dialogue with one another since the early 1970s, sociologist Oskar Negt and author, filmmaker, and television producer Alexander Kluge have authored three volumes of social philosophy, in which they devote little if any attention to their dialogic method. By situating Negt and Kluge in contradistinction to Jürgen Habermas, this essay argues for Negt and Kluge's very different vision for critical theory after Theodor Adorno, one that in…
Film Studies' Other Times and Spaces
Straw in the Ice
Landscapes of Ice, Wind, and Snow
History and Obstinacy
"If Marx’s opus Capital provided the foundational account of the forces of production in all of their objective, machine formats, what happens when the concepts of political economy are applied not to dead labor, but to its living counterpart, the human subject? The result is Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt’s History and Obstinacy, a groundbreaking archaeology of the labor power that has been cultivated in the human body over the last two thousand…
Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
Starting with the surprising role the soul assumed in the West German music essay from the early 1980s, this article interrogates a peculiar, misunderstood middle passage in dominant historiographies of German pop literature-the new wave music essay-that transformed itself at the dawn of the 1990s-shortly before the literary phenomenon labeled Popliteratur emerged- by embracing then emergent Anglo-American Cultural Studies. The importance of new …
Sous le signe de la fourmi
Il serait vain d’envisager l’un des quatorze longs-métrages réalisés par Alexander Kluge entre 1966 et 1986 comme le couronnement de son œuvre cinématographique, chaque film constituant une expérimentation à part entière, un « work in process » empruntant la forme de l’essai et que Kluge réinterprète inlassablement en le refondant à travers d’autres mediums tels que la prose, la théorie sociale, l’émission télévisée, la vidéo en ligne ou encore l…
Marxist and Formless
Peter Weiss made no secret of the importance of form for his magnum opus The Aesthetics of Resistance. "Again and again [I've made] new attempts at finding a form for the book," he wrote early on in its conception. This authorial search is, in fact, far more complicated than the long blocks of prose Weiss settled on for the novel. Exemplified in volume 2's opening confrontation with Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa, this searc…
Art (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · History (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · German History and Society (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · German (4 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works)