Alexander Kluge
Biographic Data
| ID | 302259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Kluge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Kluge |
| SIGNATURE | KLUGE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | ALEXANDER KLUGE is a filmmaker and author. Among his many honors are the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion (for best picture and lifetime achievement) and the Adorno Prize. |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6497-3974 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sfera publiczna i doświadczenie (fragmenty)
Artykuł jest przekładem fragmentów książki Oskara Negta i Alexandra Klugego Sfera publiczna i doświadczenie (Offentlichkeit und Erfahrung, 1972), jednego z kluczowych dzieł drugiego pokolenia szkoły frankfurckiej. Autorzy rozwijają w nim koncepcję sfery publicznej, przeciwstawiając jej mieszczańsko-liberalny model perspektywie „proletariackiej sfery publicznej”, zakorzenionej w doświadczeniu pracy i codzienności. Wychodząc od krytyki Habermasa, N…
« Phare qui sert à guider dans le désert ». (À un ami)
Alexander Kluge sobre Adorno
ʻdie Geschichte Hält Zur Betonung Inneʼ (Nach Ben Lerner: (ʻhistory Pauses / for Emphasisʼ, Aus the Lichtenberg Figures )
The Poetic Power of Theory
The roots of theory lie in the spirit of resistance and "essential powers" that Karl Marx and Immanuel Kant ascribed to human beings. The poetic power of social life seeks and finds counter-algorithmic expression through narrative capacities of differentiation, and the poetic power of theory operates as a political alliance out of which emancipation of any kind becomes subjectively possible, without being subjectively controlled. What twenty-firs…
La Théorie critique au XXIème siècle
Nous remercions Oskar Negt de son aimable autorisation pour l'dition franaise de cet extrait
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…
Elements of a Political Economy of Labor Power
The subtitle of Karl Marx's central work, Capital, reads: "Critique Of Political Economy." Based on the observations of the Anglo-Saxon economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo, this work poses the following of many possible questions: If capital could speak, how would it explain itself? Can capital say "I
Straw in the Ice: Stories
Marx, Joyce e Eisenstein: A Abstração Mata
Alexander Kluge, influente pensador marxista alemão, tem formação em Teoria do Direito, é ensaísta político e escritor de romances. Atualmente na Alemanha, é um dos principais diretores do chamado "Novo Cinema Alemão"; aluno e amigo de Theodor Adorno, foi apresentado a Fritz Lang do qual, em 1958, com a idade de 26 anos, tornou-se seu assistente de direção no filme O tigre de Bengala. Seu crescente envolvimento com a atividade cinematográfica per…
Magazin Des Glücks: Herausgegeben von Sebastian Huber und Claus Philipp
Ce que le mot prolétariat signifie aujourd'hui
Kluge : Prenons le terme proltarien . Que faut-il entendre par l
It Is an Error, That the Dead Are Dead
He spoke of the gravity of the dead. In Heiner Miller's very specific conception of things, the living are only one half of the real, the other half are the dead. And they have their permanent space. And this space determines the space remaining for the living. He also said, that it is an error that the Dead are dead. And given this background it is very difficult, and actually not possible, to memorialize Heiner Miller. You have done something v…
Public Sphere and Experience: Toward an Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere
Aufzeichnungen zum Neuen deutschen Film
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
We speak about the opera of the 19th century; it is considered the summit of dramatic art. In the film Die Macht der Gefiihle (The Power ofEmotion), opera was likened to a power plant of emotions. The film Carmen by Carlos Saura has shown that such older forms of dramatic art tap certain currents in spectators; this is something we did not know before. Bound up with our own century is another power plant of emotions the cinema. Presumably, in the…
La télévision publique. De la publicité bourgeoise à la technique concrète
Negt Oskar, Kluge Alexander, Derrer Michael, Pidoux Jean-Yves. La télévision publique. De la publicité bourgeoise à la technique concrète. In: Réseaux, volume 9, n°44-45, 1990. Sociologie de la télévision : Europe. pp. 243-269
Selections from Public Opinion and Practical Knowledge: Toward and Organizational Analysis of Proletariat and Middle Class Public Opinion
One of the defining characteristics of the empirical public sphere of the working class, both of the maximalist positions as of the communist and socialist democratic parties of Western Europe, consists in the fact that it views society as divided into two great camps. Such a division does indeed exist. It is in part called for by the ruling classes. What concerns us is not how this division can be overcome but to demonstrate that the
The Public Sphere and Experience: Selections
system. To everyday experience this yields a confusing picture, wherein the life-context is simultaneously integrated into production and the public sphere, and yet is at the same time excluded because in its concrete totality it is not recognized as an autonomous whole. 10. Marx says that, for the nineteenth-century proletariat, the abstraction of everything human, even of the semblance of the human, has in practice been achieved. The old and ne…
Why Should Film and Television Cooperate: On the Mainz Manifesto
The changes in the media landscape that represent challenges to film and television in no way derive solely from the new private media. Rather, these changes are rooted in losses of publicity' inherent in all societal processes. Active counter-production, which is rooted in the cultural mission of television and the film-historical mission of cinema, must gather together the forces of both, for if each acts only on its own behalf, they will proba…
Word and Film
Experts and publicists have proposed a whole series of views on film and language. These views resemble and contradict each other.' A random selection of statements corresponding to various conceptions of film and evidently varying degrees of importance have one thing in common: they proceed from a fixed notion of film as well as an established, or presumably established, notion of language. The issue at hand, however, requires going beyond such …
"Selections from New Stories, Notebooks 1 - 18 "The Uncanniness of Time
It may seem as though some of the stories are concerned not with the present [Jetztzeit] but with the past. They deal with the present. A few of the stories appear to have been cut short. Then it is precisely this being-cut-short which is the story. The form of a bomb blast makes an impression. Such a form is constituted by being cut short. On April 8, 1945, I was ten meters away from such a blast
On New German Cinema, Art, Enlightenment, and the Public Sphere: An Interview with Alexander Kluge
Stuart Liebman: Two months from now, that is in February 1987, German filmmakers can celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Oberhausen Manifesto,' a mythical moment of birth for the New German Cinema. Yet any visitor to Munich today who is interested in German film must be struck by the fact that there are only two German films now playing in local cinemas. One is a popular comedy, Mdnner [Men], while the other is a curious art film, Parad…
The Political as Intensity of Everyday Feelings
The context of life as object of production of the media conglomerate
The Public Sphere and Experience: Selections
system. To everyday experience this yields a confusing picture, wherein the life-context is simultaneously integrated into production and the public sphere, and yet is at the same time excluded because in its concrete totality it is not recognized as an autonomous whole. 10. Marx says that, for the nineteenth-century proletariat, the abstraction of everything human, even of the semblance of the human, has in practice been achieved. The old and ne…
On Film and the Public Sphere
Word and Film
Experts and publicists have proposed a whole series of views on film and language. These views resemble and contradict each other.' A random selection of statements corresponding to various conceptions of film and evidently varying degrees of importance have one thing in common: they proceed from a fixed notion of film as well as an established, or presumably established, notion of language. The issue at hand, however, requires going beyond such …
On New German Cinema, Art, Enlightenment, and the Public Sphere: An Interview with Alexander Kluge
Stuart Liebman: Two months from now, that is in February 1987, German filmmakers can celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Oberhausen Manifesto,' a mythical moment of birth for the New German Cinema. Yet any visitor to Munich today who is interested in German film must be struck by the fact that there are only two German films now playing in local cinemas. One is a popular comedy, Mdnner [Men], while the other is a curious art film, Parad…
Why Should Film and Television Cooperate: On the Mainz Manifesto
The changes in the media landscape that represent challenges to film and television in no way derive solely from the new private media. Rather, these changes are rooted in losses of publicity' inherent in all societal processes. Active counter-production, which is rooted in the cultural mission of television and the film-historical mission of cinema, must gather together the forces of both, for if each acts only on its own behalf, they will proba…
The Political as Intensity of Everyday Feelings
Marx, Joyce e Eisenstein: A Abstração Mata
Alexander Kluge, influente pensador marxista alemão, tem formação em Teoria do Direito, é ensaísta político e escritor de romances. Atualmente na Alemanha, é um dos principais diretores do chamado "Novo Cinema Alemão"; aluno e amigo de Theodor Adorno, foi apresentado a Fritz Lang do qual, em 1958, com a idade de 26 anos, tornou-se seu assistente de direção no filme O tigre de Bengala. Seu crescente envolvimento com a atividade cinematográfica per…
Public Sphere and Experience: Toward an Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere
Selections from Public Opinion and Practical Knowledge: Toward and Organizational Analysis of Proletariat and Middle Class Public Opinion
One of the defining characteristics of the empirical public sphere of the working class, both of the maximalist positions as of the communist and socialist democratic parties of Western Europe, consists in the fact that it views society as divided into two great camps. Such a division does indeed exist. It is in part called for by the ruling classes. What concerns us is not how this division can be overcome but to demonstrate that the
"Selections from New Stories, Notebooks 1 - 18 "The Uncanniness of Time
It may seem as though some of the stories are concerned not with the present [Jetztzeit] but with the past. They deal with the present. A few of the stories appear to have been cut short. Then it is precisely this being-cut-short which is the story. The form of a bomb blast makes an impression. Such a form is constituted by being cut short. On April 8, 1945, I was ten meters away from such a blast
On Film and the Public Sphere
The context of life as object of production of the media conglomerate
Mass Death in Venice
In the summer of 1969 the sun weighed down for weeks on the city and waterways of Venice. The steamers and motorboats ploughed through the green waters of the lagoons which surrounded the houses like thick soup. Over 100 old people were lodged in the San Lorenzo Old Age Home, a palace of stone. They could not breathe. On one of the last days in July, 24 of the old people died within a few hours. Those who remained caught unawares by these sudden …
The Political as Intensity of Everyday Feelings
The Public Sphere and Experience: Selections
system. To everyday experience this yields a confusing picture, wherein the life-context is simultaneously integrated into production and the public sphere, and yet is at the same time excluded because in its concrete totality it is not recognized as an autonomous whole. 10. Marx says that, for the nineteenth-century proletariat, the abstraction of everything human, even of the semblance of the human, has in practice been achieved. The old and ne…
Why Should Film and Television Cooperate: On the Mainz Manifesto
The changes in the media landscape that represent challenges to film and television in no way derive solely from the new private media. Rather, these changes are rooted in losses of publicity' inherent in all societal processes. Active counter-production, which is rooted in the cultural mission of television and the film-historical mission of cinema, must gather together the forces of both, for if each acts only on its own behalf, they will proba…
Word and Film
Experts and publicists have proposed a whole series of views on film and language. These views resemble and contradict each other.' A random selection of statements corresponding to various conceptions of film and evidently varying degrees of importance have one thing in common: they proceed from a fixed notion of film as well as an established, or presumably established, notion of language. The issue at hand, however, requires going beyond such …
"Selections from New Stories, Notebooks 1 - 18 "The Uncanniness of Time
It may seem as though some of the stories are concerned not with the present [Jetztzeit] but with the past. They deal with the present. A few of the stories appear to have been cut short. Then it is precisely this being-cut-short which is the story. The form of a bomb blast makes an impression. Such a form is constituted by being cut short. On April 8, 1945, I was ten meters away from such a blast
On New German Cinema, Art, Enlightenment, and the Public Sphere: An Interview with Alexander Kluge
Stuart Liebman: Two months from now, that is in February 1987, German filmmakers can celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Oberhausen Manifesto,' a mythical moment of birth for the New German Cinema. Yet any visitor to Munich today who is interested in German film must be struck by the fact that there are only two German films now playing in local cinemas. One is a popular comedy, Mdnner [Men], while the other is a curious art film, Parad…
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
We speak about the opera of the 19th century; it is considered the summit of dramatic art. In the film Die Macht der Gefiihle (The Power ofEmotion), opera was likened to a power plant of emotions. The film Carmen by Carlos Saura has shown that such older forms of dramatic art tap certain currents in spectators; this is something we did not know before. Bound up with our own century is another power plant of emotions the cinema. Presumably, in the…
La télévision publique. De la publicité bourgeoise à la technique concrète
Negt Oskar, Kluge Alexander, Derrer Michael, Pidoux Jean-Yves. La télévision publique. De la publicité bourgeoise à la technique concrète. In: Réseaux, volume 9, n°44-45, 1990. Sociologie de la télévision : Europe. pp. 243-269
Selections from Public Opinion and Practical Knowledge: Toward and Organizational Analysis of Proletariat and Middle Class Public Opinion
One of the defining characteristics of the empirical public sphere of the working class, both of the maximalist positions as of the communist and socialist democratic parties of Western Europe, consists in the fact that it views society as divided into two great camps. Such a division does indeed exist. It is in part called for by the ruling classes. What concerns us is not how this division can be overcome but to demonstrate that the
Aufzeichnungen zum Neuen deutschen Film
Public Sphere and Experience: Toward an Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere
It Is an Error, That the Dead Are Dead
He spoke of the gravity of the dead. In Heiner Miller's very specific conception of things, the living are only one half of the real, the other half are the dead. And they have their permanent space. And this space determines the space remaining for the living. He also said, that it is an error that the Dead are dead. And given this background it is very difficult, and actually not possible, to memorialize Heiner Miller. You have done something v…
Magazin Des Glücks: Herausgegeben von Sebastian Huber und Claus Philipp
Ce que le mot prolétariat signifie aujourd'hui
Kluge : Prenons le terme proltarien . Que faut-il entendre par l
Marx, Joyce e Eisenstein: A Abstração Mata
Alexander Kluge, influente pensador marxista alemão, tem formação em Teoria do Direito, é ensaísta político e escritor de romances. Atualmente na Alemanha, é um dos principais diretores do chamado "Novo Cinema Alemão"; aluno e amigo de Theodor Adorno, foi apresentado a Fritz Lang do qual, em 1958, com a idade de 26 anos, tornou-se seu assistente de direção no filme O tigre de Bengala. Seu crescente envolvimento com a atividade cinematográfica per…
Straw in the Ice: Stories
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…
Elements of a Political Economy of Labor Power
The subtitle of Karl Marx's central work, Capital, reads: "Critique Of Political Economy." Based on the observations of the Anglo-Saxon economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo, this work poses the following of many possible questions: If capital could speak, how would it explain itself? Can capital say "I
La Théorie critique au XXIème siècle
Nous remercions Oskar Negt de son aimable autorisation pour l'dition franaise de cet extrait
Alexander Kluge sobre Adorno
ʻdie Geschichte Hält Zur Betonung Inneʼ (Nach Ben Lerner: (ʻhistory Pauses / for Emphasisʼ, Aus the Lichtenberg Figures )
The Poetic Power of Theory
The roots of theory lie in the spirit of resistance and "essential powers" that Karl Marx and Immanuel Kant ascribed to human beings. The poetic power of social life seeks and finds counter-algorithmic expression through narrative capacities of differentiation, and the poetic power of theory operates as a political alliance out of which emancipation of any kind becomes subjectively possible, without being subjectively controlled. What twenty-firs…
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