Ralph Buchenhorst – författare

This book focuses on the ethical, aesthetic, and scholarly dimensions of how genocide-related works of art, documentary films, poetry and performance, museums and monuments, music, dance, image, law, memory narratives, spiritual bonds, and ruins are translated and take place as translations of acts of genocide. It shows how genocide-related modes of representation are acts of translation which displace and produce memory and acts of remembrance of genocidal violence as inheritance of the past in a future present. Thus, the possibility of representation is examined in light of what remains in the aftermath where the past and the future are inseparable companions and we find the idea of the untranslatability in acts of genocide. By opening up both the past and lived experiences of genocidal violence as and through multiple acts of translation, this volume marks a heterogeneous turn towards the future, and one which will be of interest to all scholars and students of memory and genocide studies, transitional justice, sociology, psychology, and social anthropology.

This book focuses on the ethical, aesthetic, and scholarly dimensions of how genocide-related works of art, documentary films, poetry and performance, museums and monuments, music, dance, image, law, memory narratives, spiritual bonds, and ruins are translated and take place as translations of acts of genocide. It shows how genocide-related modes of representation are acts of translation which displace and produce memory and acts of remembrance of genocidal violence as inheritance of the past in a future present. Thus, the possibility of representation is examined in light of what remains in the aftermath where the past and the future are inseparable companions and we find the idea of the untranslatability in acts of genocide. By opening up both the past and lived experiences of genocidal violence as and through multiple acts of translation, this volume marks a heterogeneous turn towards the future, and one which will be of interest to all scholars and students of memory and genocide studies, transitional justice, sociology, psychology, and social anthropology.

Die urbane Phänomenologie Walter Benjamins wird in diesem Buch in den realen Kontext lateinamerikanischer Städte und ihrer Kultur gerückt. In Gegenüberstellungen mit wichtigen Zeitgenossen wie Georg Simmel und Siegfried Kracauer, mit dem zeitgenössischen urbanen Kino Brasiliens und mit aktuellen Analysen von urbanen Hyperräumen wie Sao Paulo und Buenos Aires wird eine neue, kritische Sichtweise auf eine Theorie vermittelt, für die das Verstehen der Wahrnehmung des modernen urbanen Raums im Zentrum des Interesses stand.Wer wissen möchte, wie das Werk des jüdisch-deutschen Philosophen, Literaturkritikers und Medientheoretikers auf der anderen Seite des Atlantiks gelesen und interpretiert wird, findet hier vielfältige Antworten.