Drafts by Achim Seiffarth
Image flow, image row. Understanding emojis? with Vilém Flusser Little pictures in between We use... more Image flow, image row. Understanding emojis? with Vilém Flusser Little pictures in between We used to send letters to each other. We used to write down, letter after letter, word by word, what we hoped would represent our feelings and thoughts. Only in rare exceptions would we have drawn little sketches on the paper, maybe for love or for a child. When we receive letters nowadays, usually emails or 'messages' on social media, pictures pop up or we find photos or videos attached. When considering only the text, we have to understand emojis if we want to get the message.
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As Europeans, reading about courage and caution (Roberts and Wood 2007) as epistemic virtues coul... more As Europeans, reading about courage and caution (Roberts and Wood 2007) as epistemic virtues could make us remember times long past. Both terms are not just particular norms propagated by certain writers, such as Nietzsche (Baehr 2011), but they are central elements of what used to dominate higher culture as the idea of chivalry during the Middle Ages. However, proposing 'chivalry' straightforwardly as an epistemic virtue instead could cause irritation. Explicated by various catalogues of moral rules, the concept of chivalry included not only courage, but also religious faith and good manners. Furthermore, chivalry, with very few exceptions, referred to a system of norms for noblemen, and what we still may or may not appreciate as an example of chivalry is a man who holds the door open for a woman, not vice versa.
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By means of a simple text analysis with R, we can make visible how Weber changes perspective on t... more By means of a simple text analysis with R, we can make visible how Weber changes perspective on the world in 1904
(Short English version of an essay to be published in Akten des
Kongresses der Mitteleuropäischen Germanistenvereinigung, Olsztyn 2023)
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Literature often treats topics that might provoke students. How to handle cultural views on provo... more Literature often treats topics that might provoke students. How to handle cultural views on provocative topics in difficult times
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Wittgenstein's »Tractatus« has been read philosophically in many different manners and the discus... more Wittgenstein's »Tractatus« has been read philosophically in many different manners and the discussion about its existentialist or kierkegaardian or its meaning as a founding text of analytical philosophy is still going on. We propose to consider the »Tractatus« as a literary work. Contradictory and full of metaphors as it is, by its very nature it remains ambiguous and the discussion about its meaning is doomed to go on endlessly.
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<Inv> <Komb (<J> <Fr>): Blend Language – the Songs from the Milan Pop Group il pagante The songs ... more <Inv> <Komb (<J> <Fr>): Blend Language – the Songs from the Milan Pop Group il pagante The songs of the Italian group il pagante are written in a surprising variety of Italian. Like all youth language, il pagante offers new expressions everybody might use, and at the same time is tracing a border between themselves and the others. In fact, the group moves beyond the simple polyphonic mixture of words from different languages. Their strangeness can be seen in the echo their songs find on the Net: people look for explanations of the words they have heard in the songs. However, the effect of alienation may be balanced by the constant link to a local reality: Milanese dialect is used, places at Milan are named. The language of il pagante evidences a whole set of language blending mechanisms this essay explores. <Inv> <Komb (<J> <Fr>): Linguaggio Blend – le canzoni del gruppo milanese Il pagante Il gruppo il pagante canta delle canzoni sorprendenti per il linguaggio utilizzato. I testi di il pagante, come sempre i linguaggi giovanili, nel contempo offrono nuove possibilità d'espressione e tracciano una linea di confine tra loro e gli altri. L'eco le loro canzoni trovano sul Web potrebbe dare la misura della loro stranezza. Tante persone cercano espressioni o anche parole singole sentite nelle canzoni del gruppo. Spesso si tratta di strane parole: delle combinazioni d'italiano e inglese, anche dell'inversione dell'uso comune. Tale effetto di allontanamento dal mondo è tuttavia contrastato dal legame che il pagante mostra con alcuni luoghi della città di Milano e con il dialetto milanese. Nell'insieme, il linguaggo di il pagante è il risultato di tutta una serie di meccanismi di mescolanza linguistica il saggio cerca di esplorare. <Inv> <Komb (<J> <Fr>): Blendsprache – die Lieder der Mailänder Gruppe Il pagante Die Musikgruppe il pagante singt Lieder in einer verblüffenden Varietät des Italienischen. Die Texte der Gruppe bieten, wie jede Jugendsprache, neue Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten, ziehen aber zugleich eine sprachliche Grenze nach außen. Die Seltsamkeit des Sprachblends, den sie vortragen, lässt sich an dem Echo ermessen, das ihre Lieder im Internet finden. Man sucht nach der Bedeutung der neuen Wörter und Wortkombinationen, die in den Liedern von il pagante vorkommen. Es treten seltsame Worte auf, Kombinationen von Deutsch und Englisch, Umkehrungen des gebräuchlichen Sprachsinns. Diese Entfernung von der Welt wird jedoch konterkariert durch die deutliche Bindung an Orte in der Stadt Mailand und an den Mailänder Dialekt. Die Sprache von il pagante entsteht aus einer Vielfalt von Verfahren der Sprachmischung, welchen dieser Aufsatz nachgeht.
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After the first wave of the Romantic movement in Italy, with authors who, like Manzoni, had combi... more After the first wave of the Romantic movement in Italy, with authors who, like Manzoni, had combined enlightened and romantic positions, the Italian movement of the Scapigliati takes up authors from German Romanticism, like Hoffmann (Tarchetti) and Jean Paul (Dossi). With Dossi it arrives at a renewed vision of literature and the world, partly using, in firm opposition to Manzoni, Northern Italian dialect, and proposing a new idea of memory, getting near to Proust.
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Working with the generation Snoeflake, treating literary texts in class can be difficult.. my exp... more Working with the generation Snoeflake, treating literary texts in class can be difficult.. my experiences in an University College
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Du siehst nicht herein, und doch siehst du ... Ein System von Vorhängen, Szenen auf dem Fensterbr... more Du siehst nicht herein, und doch siehst du ... Ein System von Vorhängen, Szenen auf dem Fensterbrett.
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There are different ways of representing The Netherlands in Italian Literature. While De Amicis a... more There are different ways of representing The Netherlands in Italian Literature. While De Amicis and Praga rest within the limits of common place, Giovanni Camerana finds his own way.
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Weber on holiday in the Netherlands, encountering a vision of himself.
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Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2001
URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0102150
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URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0102150URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0102150URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs010215
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Ein Lehrbuch ist nicht notwendiger Weise etwas zum Lesen. Band I von BONFADELLIs "Medienwirk... more Ein Lehrbuch ist nicht notwendiger Weise etwas zum Lesen. Band I von BONFADELLIs "Medienwirkungsforschung" wird immer dann hilfreich sein, wenn wir uns mit einzelnen Theorien aus dem Lager der empirisch (quantitativ) verfahrenden Medien-Theorie vertraut machen wollen. Als Gesamtdarstellung hingegen verweigert das Werk Leserinnen und Lesern linearen Fortgang und Einheit der Erzählung. Kapitel nach Kapitel führt aus dem Nichts heraus, ins Nichts zurück. Vielleicht stellt gerade diese Erzählweise eine Gestalt erwünschter Wissenschaft dar. Band II behandelt verschiedene Bereiche bezahlter Auftragsforschung. Begrifflich auf wissenschaftsexterne Vorgaben festgelegt, gäben die zitierten Arbeiten Anlass zur Kritik. Zugleich ist es aufschlussreich, wie die Medien selbst bei der Wirkungsforschung aus dem Blick geraten, zugunsten einer bilderlosen Wahrheit, die weder Zeit noch Raum kennt. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0204127
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Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht, 2001
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So beschreibt Tacitus das Leben der Germanen. Er fuhrt der Kulturwelt die Barbaren vor. Er vergle... more So beschreibt Tacitus das Leben der Germanen. Er fuhrt der Kulturwelt die Barbaren vor. Er vergleicht, und er mahnt. Primitiv und ein bisschen lacherlich, haben die Germanen den kultivierten Romern doch etwas, vielleicht gar altromische Tugenden, voraus: Diese Barbaren sind stark, sie sind frei und sittenstreng zugleich; zah verteidigen sie ihre Freiheit. In dieser Hinsicht sind die Germanen Prototyp des reinen und freien Wilden, der sehr viel spater die Phantasie der Leser und Leserinnen beschaftigen wird. Der jungere Wilde trinkt freilich nicht.
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Max Weber and Robert Musil have shared interests, not only in analyzing the “modern world”. With ... more Max Weber and Robert Musil have shared interests, not only in analyzing the “modern world”. With contemporary philosophy having apparently become merely academic, and narration losing plausibility in history as well as in literature, they both choose the way of essayistic writing in order to substantiate their views. And in their search for a foundation they both go back to ancient philosophy, Weber to Plato and Musil to Plotinus.
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Drafts by Achim Seiffarth
(Short English version of an essay to be published in Akten des
Kongresses der Mitteleuropäischen Germanistenvereinigung, Olsztyn 2023)
Papers by Achim Seiffarth
(Short English version of an essay to be published in Akten des
Kongresses der Mitteleuropäischen Germanistenvereinigung, Olsztyn 2023)