Simone Knewitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1689333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simone Knewitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simone |
| FAMILY NAME | Knewitz |
| SIGNATURE | KNEWITZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bonn |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1819-3886 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Language of Democratization
“Singing the Epiphanic Song”
Inspired by the 2011 Occupy Oakland movement, Juliana Spahr’s volume of poetry "That Winter the Wolf Came" (2015) brings to the forefront major concerns of contemporary politically engaged poetry, in particular the question of whether and how poetry as a literary practice can engender oppositional political action and nurture collective agency. This essay argues that Spahr’s volume, in its attentiveness to forms in both their aesthetic and politi…
Reimagining the Cold War
This article analyses three contemporary TV and streaming series that reimagine the Cold War era of the 1980s in a nostalgic mode: the docudrama Chernobyl (2019), the science fiction series Stranger Things (2016–present) and the spy thriller The Americans (2013–18). It argues that these productions rely on nostalgia and retro aesthetics in the service of an anti-communist imaginary and what Mark Fisher has called ‘capitalist realism’: the percept…
Creating an ownership society? Social security reform and the temporalities of libertarian rhetoric
Former US president George W. Bush's idea of the United States as an 'ownership society' can be considered as the rhetorical apex of a conservative, libertarian push for a more market-driven restructuring of American social institutions. Reformers in the Bush administration particularly targeted Social Security, a popular American institution and signature achievement of the New Deal era, aiming to replace a system of solidarity with one of indiv…
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Creating an ownership society? Social security reform and the temporalities of libertarian rhetoric
Former US president George W. Bush's idea of the United States as an 'ownership society' can be considered as the rhetorical apex of a conservative, libertarian push for a more market-driven restructuring of American social institutions. Reformers in the Bush administration particularly targeted Social Security, a popular American institution and signature achievement of the New Deal era, aiming to replace a system of solidarity with one of indiv…
Reimagining the Cold War
This article analyses three contemporary TV and streaming series that reimagine the Cold War era of the 1980s in a nostalgic mode: the docudrama Chernobyl (2019), the science fiction series Stranger Things (2016–present) and the spy thriller The Americans (2013–18). It argues that these productions rely on nostalgia and retro aesthetics in the service of an anti-communist imaginary and what Mark Fisher has called ‘capitalist realism’: the percept…
“Singing the Epiphanic Song”
Inspired by the 2011 Occupy Oakland movement, Juliana Spahr’s volume of poetry "That Winter the Wolf Came" (2015) brings to the forefront major concerns of contemporary politically engaged poetry, in particular the question of whether and how poetry as a literary practice can engender oppositional political action and nurture collective agency. This essay argues that Spahr’s volume, in its attentiveness to forms in both their aesthetic and politi…
The Language of Democratization
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