Nikolaj Lübecker
Biographic Data
| ID | 757342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikolaj Lübecker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikolaj |
| FAMILY NAME | Lübecker |
| SIGNATURE | LÜBECKER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7139-579X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Francesco Sticchi (2025). The Politics of Monstrous Figures in Contemporary Cinema
From author films to operational images
David Dufresne's Un Pays qui se tient sage (2020) and contemporary documentary activism
David Dufresne's Un Pays qui se tient sage (2020) offers a critique of French police violence, particularly in relation to the Gilets Jaunes protests. The film is set in a viewing space where participants (including protesters, sociologists, lawyers, and police representatives) analyze footage of the protests, which primarily consists of mobile phone recordings shot by the protesters themselves as well as television reports from the mainstream me…
In a sea of binary algae
Setting aside the short prologue, to which we return later, Chris Marker’s Level Five (1997) begins with the character Chris (voiced by Marker) telling us that a young writer and friend named Laura (Catherine Belkhodja) has recently made contact with him. Her lover, who was also Chris’s friend, has died, and Laura is hoping that Chris can help her to make sense of the project he left behind. This project is a computer game about the Battle of Oki…
Mallarmé's Digital Demon
How do Mallarmé's writings speak to the present? To answer this question, this article establishes a dialogue between one of Mallarmé's early prose poems, 'Le Démon de l'analogie', and texts by the contemporary media theorists Mark Hansen, Steven Shaviro and Eugene Thacker. The article argues that Mallarmé's poem explores how it feels to be a body modulated by code. The poem puts twentieth-century phenomenology with its focus on human perception …
Mallarmé's Instruments
The teleology of the universe is directed towards the production of beauty. — Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas1 Ainsi, l’œuvre esthétique fait bourgeonner l’univers, le prolonge, constituant un réseau d’œuvres, c’est-à-dire de réalités d’exception, rayonnantes, de points-clefs d’un univers à la fois humain et naturel. — Gilbert Simondon, Du mode d’existence des objets techniques2 In the humanities, the word ‘instrument’, and related te…
Landscape Memories
Chantal Akerman's documentary Sud [South, 1999] investigates the brutal racist murder of James Byrd Jr that took place in Jasper, Texas in 1998. Sud is a socio-political documentary, but it is also, as the director explains, an experimental film about the relation between physical and mental landscapes, between social and affective ecologies. This article places Akerman's film in the context of contemporary debates about non-anthropocentric ontol…
The Politics of Images
The last ten to fifteen years have seen the publication of numerous books and articles considering the relation between images and politics. The reasons for this development are obvious: footage of the World Trade Center attacks and photos from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo (to give just a few examples) have clearly demonstrated that images not only respond to political events, but also play an important part in shaping them. Images have therefore be…
The Politics of Desire in Paul Nizan's La Conspiration
The Dedramatization of Violence in Claire Denis's I Can't Sleep
Throughout the twentieth century a significant tradition in French thought promoted a highly dramatized reading of the Hegelian struggle for recognition. In this tradition a violent struggle was regarded as an indispensable means to the realization of both individual and social ideals. The following article considers Claire Denis's film I Can't Sleep (J'ai pas sommeil, 1994) as an oblique challenge to this tradition. I Can't Sleep performs a care…
From author films to operational images
David Dufresne's Un Pays qui se tient sage (2020) and contemporary documentary activism
David Dufresne's Un Pays qui se tient sage (2020) offers a critique of French police violence, particularly in relation to the Gilets Jaunes protests. The film is set in a viewing space where participants (including protesters, sociologists, lawyers, and police representatives) analyze footage of the protests, which primarily consists of mobile phone recordings shot by the protesters themselves as well as television reports from the mainstream me…
In a sea of binary algae
Setting aside the short prologue, to which we return later, Chris Marker’s Level Five (1997) begins with the character Chris (voiced by Marker) telling us that a young writer and friend named Laura (Catherine Belkhodja) has recently made contact with him. Her lover, who was also Chris’s friend, has died, and Laura is hoping that Chris can help her to make sense of the project he left behind. This project is a computer game about the Battle of Oki…
Mallarmé's Instruments
The teleology of the universe is directed towards the production of beauty. — Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas1 Ainsi, l’œuvre esthétique fait bourgeonner l’univers, le prolonge, constituant un réseau d’œuvres, c’est-à-dire de réalités d’exception, rayonnantes, de points-clefs d’un univers à la fois humain et naturel. — Gilbert Simondon, Du mode d’existence des objets techniques2 In the humanities, the word ‘instrument’, and related te…
Landscape Memories
Chantal Akerman's documentary Sud [South, 1999] investigates the brutal racist murder of James Byrd Jr that took place in Jasper, Texas in 1998. Sud is a socio-political documentary, but it is also, as the director explains, an experimental film about the relation between physical and mental landscapes, between social and affective ecologies. This article places Akerman's film in the context of contemporary debates about non-anthropocentric ontol…
The Dedramatization of Violence in Claire Denis's I Can't Sleep
Throughout the twentieth century a significant tradition in French thought promoted a highly dramatized reading of the Hegelian struggle for recognition. In this tradition a violent struggle was regarded as an indispensable means to the realization of both individual and social ideals. The following article considers Claire Denis's film I Can't Sleep (J'ai pas sommeil, 1994) as an oblique challenge to this tradition. I Can't Sleep performs a care…
The Politics of Desire in Paul Nizan's La Conspiration
The Politics of Images
The last ten to fifteen years have seen the publication of numerous books and articles considering the relation between images and politics. The reasons for this development are obvious: footage of the World Trade Center attacks and photos from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo (to give just a few examples) have clearly demonstrated that images not only respond to political events, but also play an important part in shaping them. Images have therefore be…
Mallarmé's Instruments
The teleology of the universe is directed towards the production of beauty. — Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas1 Ainsi, l’œuvre esthétique fait bourgeonner l’univers, le prolonge, constituant un réseau d’œuvres, c’est-à-dire de réalités d’exception, rayonnantes, de points-clefs d’un univers à la fois humain et naturel. — Gilbert Simondon, Du mode d’existence des objets techniques2 In the humanities, the word ‘instrument’, and related te…
Landscape Memories
Chantal Akerman's documentary Sud [South, 1999] investigates the brutal racist murder of James Byrd Jr that took place in Jasper, Texas in 1998. Sud is a socio-political documentary, but it is also, as the director explains, an experimental film about the relation between physical and mental landscapes, between social and affective ecologies. This article places Akerman's film in the context of contemporary debates about non-anthropocentric ontol…
Mallarmé's Digital Demon
How do Mallarmé's writings speak to the present? To answer this question, this article establishes a dialogue between one of Mallarmé's early prose poems, 'Le Démon de l'analogie', and texts by the contemporary media theorists Mark Hansen, Steven Shaviro and Eugene Thacker. The article argues that Mallarmé's poem explores how it feels to be a body modulated by code. The poem puts twentieth-century phenomenology with its focus on human perception …
In a sea of binary algae
Setting aside the short prologue, to which we return later, Chris Marker’s Level Five (1997) begins with the character Chris (voiced by Marker) telling us that a young writer and friend named Laura (Catherine Belkhodja) has recently made contact with him. Her lover, who was also Chris’s friend, has died, and Laura is hoping that Chris can help her to make sense of the project he left behind. This project is a computer game about the Battle of Oki…
From author films to operational images
David Dufresne's Un Pays qui se tient sage (2020) and contemporary documentary activism
David Dufresne's Un Pays qui se tient sage (2020) offers a critique of French police violence, particularly in relation to the Gilets Jaunes protests. The film is set in a viewing space where participants (including protesters, sociologists, lawyers, and police representatives) analyze footage of the protests, which primarily consists of mobile phone recordings shot by the protesters themselves as well as television reports from the mainstream me…
Francesco Sticchi (2025). The Politics of Monstrous Figures in Contemporary Cinema
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