Frans-Willem Korsten
Biographic Data
| ID | 6213551 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frans-Willem Korsten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frans-Willem |
| FAMILY NAME | Korsten |
| SIGNATURE | KORSTEN F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Imagining Urban Complexity
Imagining Urban Complexity introduces passionate and critical perspectives on the link between the humanities and urban studies. It emphasizes tropes, media, and genres as cultural techniques that shape complexity in urban environments by distributing affordances, modes of sensing, and modes of sense-making. Focusing on urban political and cultural dynamics in 24 global cities, the book shows that urban environments are thematized in literature a…
Battlegrounds of Representation and Motors of Desire
Connecting the Private and the Masses
Using Spielraum for a Normative Definition of Politics
The terms “politics” and “political” have become so overdetermined that it is difficult to use them in any effective manner. We argue that this has dangerous political consequences, and that this could be addressed by providing a new, sounder, notion of politics. This paper argues that defining politics in relation to the notion of play can provide a notion both intuitively appealing and able to withstand the problematic overdeterminations. We ar…
Apostrophe, witnessing and its essentially theatrical modes of address
Apostrophe is best known as a punctuation mark (’) or as a key poetic figure (with a speaker addressing an imaginary or absent person or entity). In origin, however, it is a pivotal rhetorical figure that indicates a ‘breaking away’ or turning away of the speaker from one addressee to another, in a different mode. In this respect, apostrophe is essentially theatrical. To be sure, the turn away implies two different modes of address that may follo…
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Apostrophe, witnessing and its essentially theatrical modes of address
Apostrophe is best known as a punctuation mark (’) or as a key poetic figure (with a speaker addressing an imaginary or absent person or entity). In origin, however, it is a pivotal rhetorical figure that indicates a ‘breaking away’ or turning away of the speaker from one addressee to another, in a different mode. In this respect, apostrophe is essentially theatrical. To be sure, the turn away implies two different modes of address that may follo…
Imagining Urban Complexity
Imagining Urban Complexity introduces passionate and critical perspectives on the link between the humanities and urban studies. It emphasizes tropes, media, and genres as cultural techniques that shape complexity in urban environments by distributing affordances, modes of sensing, and modes of sense-making. Focusing on urban political and cultural dynamics in 24 global cities, the book shows that urban environments are thematized in literature a…
Battlegrounds of Representation and Motors of Desire
Connecting the Private and the Masses
Using Spielraum for a Normative Definition of Politics
The terms “politics” and “political” have become so overdetermined that it is difficult to use them in any effective manner. We argue that this has dangerous political consequences, and that this could be addressed by providing a new, sounder, notion of politics. This paper argues that defining politics in relation to the notion of play can provide a notion both intuitively appealing and able to withstand the problematic overdeterminations. We ar…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 work)