Sven Spieker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5937185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sven Spieker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sven |
| FAMILY NAME | Spieker |
| SIGNATURE | SPIEKER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“And What About Class?”
This roundtable focuses on the connections between art or culture and class, and on the multiple forms this connection takes today. Even as class distinctions have evolved over the years, and even as the role played by social class in contemporary struggles for social justice and recognition has been obscured, class remains formative of late capitalist subjectivity and continues to have a significant, if mostly unacknowledged, impact on our lives…
Brushing the Archive Against the Grain
Cristina Vatulescu and Anke Pinkert’s studies join a growing body of art and scholarship that read Cold War police archives against the grain by connecting them with protest and dissent, complicating the traditional view of the archive as an institution that perpetuates the interests of state power. Both authors focus on the changes in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s, including the large-scale opening of secret police archives, even as the…
Some Notes on the Use of Foreign or Minority Languages in Eastern European Art
The article considers foreign language use by artists from Eastern Europe during the Cold War, both for interpersonal communication, in art production, and as a means for an artist to place themselves in minority and/or transnational contexts. Additionally, the article demonstrates that an artist’s choice of a foreign idiom may show their attitude towards his or her own idiom, in some cases “provincializing” it, and in others, elevating it to the…
The Heresy of Didactic Art
In the special issue, we are interested in the multiple, and often strategic, connections between art and alternative, radical pedagogies. Of course, the confluence of art and radical pedagogy is nothing particularly new. The past twenty years, especially, have witnessed a resurgence of all manner of debates and initiatives that attend to the role that contemporary art plays or could play in the development of critical education and pedagogy. Bel…
Embedding Constructivism
Am Nullpunkt
Gogol
Figures of Memory and Forgetting in Andrej Bitov's Prose
Contents: Postmodernism in the Soviet Union - History and its representation in modernist, socialist realist, and postmodern aesthetics - Different models of mnemonic representation and their applicability in the Soviet context - Andrej Bitov as a postmodernist - Bitov's attitude towards modernism and socialist realism
Stumps Folded into a Fist”
Il y a hasard quand ce qui est possible se produit au détriment de ce qui est probable. A la place de l'attendu, autre chose paraît qui nous apprend ainsi qu'elle pouvait être. Paul Valéry
Gogol and the Baroque
Gedachtnis und Literatur. Intertextualitat in der russischen Moderne
Intertextualitat und Interpretierbarkeit des Texts. Zur fruhen Prosa Boris Pasternaks
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Intertextualitat und Interpretierbarkeit des Texts. Zur fruhen Prosa Boris Pasternaks
Gedachtnis und Literatur. Intertextualitat in der russischen Moderne
Gogol and the Baroque
Stumps Folded into a Fist”
Il y a hasard quand ce qui est possible se produit au détriment de ce qui est probable. A la place de l'attendu, autre chose paraît qui nous apprend ainsi qu'elle pouvait être. Paul Valéry
Figures of Memory and Forgetting in Andrej Bitov's Prose
Contents: Postmodernism in the Soviet Union - History and its representation in modernist, socialist realist, and postmodern aesthetics - Different models of mnemonic representation and their applicability in the Soviet context - Andrej Bitov as a postmodernist - Bitov's attitude towards modernism and socialist realism
Gogol
Am Nullpunkt
Embedding Constructivism
The Heresy of Didactic Art
In the special issue, we are interested in the multiple, and often strategic, connections between art and alternative, radical pedagogies. Of course, the confluence of art and radical pedagogy is nothing particularly new. The past twenty years, especially, have witnessed a resurgence of all manner of debates and initiatives that attend to the role that contemporary art plays or could play in the development of critical education and pedagogy. Bel…
Some Notes on the Use of Foreign or Minority Languages in Eastern European Art
The article considers foreign language use by artists from Eastern Europe during the Cold War, both for interpersonal communication, in art production, and as a means for an artist to place themselves in minority and/or transnational contexts. Additionally, the article demonstrates that an artist’s choice of a foreign idiom may show their attitude towards his or her own idiom, in some cases “provincializing” it, and in others, elevating it to the…
“And What About Class?”
This roundtable focuses on the connections between art or culture and class, and on the multiple forms this connection takes today. Even as class distinctions have evolved over the years, and even as the role played by social class in contemporary struggles for social justice and recognition has been obscured, class remains formative of late capitalist subjectivity and continues to have a significant, if mostly unacknowledged, impact on our lives…
Brushing the Archive Against the Grain
Cristina Vatulescu and Anke Pinkert’s studies join a growing body of art and scholarship that read Cold War police archives against the grain by connecting them with protest and dissent, complicating the traditional view of the archive as an institution that perpetuates the interests of state power. Both authors focus on the changes in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s, including the large-scale opening of secret police archives, even as the…
Art (9 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (2 works) · European Cultural and National Identity (2 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies (2 works)