Der Preis der Werte: 24. Februar 2019

Der österreichische Romancier und Essayist Robert Menasse, der für seinen Europa- Roman 'Die Hauptstadt' mit dem Deutschen Buchpreis 2017 ausgezeichnet worden ist, spricht in seiner Dresdner Rede am 24. Februar über den Preis der Werte. Ist es wirklich niemandem aufgefallen, dass zum ersten Mal seit 1945, seit die verwüstete europäische Zivilisation unter dem Baldachin „unserer Werte“ wieder aufgebaut wurde, „unsere Werte“ auf dem Weltmarkt einen präzisen Preis, auf den Euro oder Dollar genau, bekamen – und um diesen Preis tatsächlich verkauft wurden? Es ist geschehen. Was haben wir jetzt noch? Warum hört man kein Höllengelächter, wenn am Sonntag „unsere Werte“ beschworen werden? Was bedeutet das für unser Leben in Europa? Was bedeutet das für die Literatur als Reflexion unserer Zeitgenossenschaft? Was hat überhaupt noch Bedeutung

Breu història del futur europeu. O per què hem de lluitar per allò que vam heretar: l’Europa de les regions

En el número 50 de la revista L'Espill trobaràs un dossier monogràfic sobre "La crisi europea. Europa com a idea i com a projecte, avui", amb contribucions d'Adam Zagajewski, Joan F. Mira, Antoni Mora, Marina Garcés, Simona Škrabec, Andrei Kurkov, Antoni Martí Monterde, Enzo Traverso, Wolf Lepenies, Robert Menasse, Josep Maria Terricabras, Manuel Sanchis, Estanislau Vidal-Folch, Sebastian Landschbauer, Étienne Balibar, Ulrike Guérot, Josep Maria Martorell, Montserrat Daban, Francesc Xavier Grau i Josep Lluís Gómez Mompart. A més, una enquesta d'Adolf Beltran sobre el present i el futur d'Europa i dos documents, de Joan Fuster i de Vicent Ventura

Principles of Psychoanalytic Analysis of Psychotic Literary Features: An Illustration on the Work of Pablo Palacio

The linguistic attributes of psychosis described by French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in his early and late theories of psychosis point to a radical, unmediated and objectified relation between subject and signifier. In his third seminar in 1955, Lacan revisited psychosis and he posited it as a subjective structure alongside neurosis and perversion. Later, in his twenty-third seminar in 1975, Lacan revisited again the notion of psychosis positing it as a Borromean knot. Apropos, he examined some of the work of Irish writer James Joyce. His writing, argued Lacan, entailed dynamics such that prevented him from having a psychotic breakdown. Joyce’s mode of jouissance via his writing provided unity to his subjective structure. This rests, following Lacan, upon Joyce’s linguistic know-how (sinthome) which provided a symbolic space for imaginary, symbolic and real to be disjointed, and thus become joint. It follows that there ought to be linguistic and literary dynamics that, under this theoretical framework, are recognisable as psychotic. This research consists of a psychoanalytic-literary analysis of four short stories and a novel by Ecuadorian writer Pablo Palacio. The objective is to determine whether the linguistic and extralinguistic attributes of psychosis described by Lacan can be said to be at play in Palacio’s works and thus answer the question of whether psychotic attributes and dynamics can be extrapolated to other bodies of fictional literature. In turn, this research questions and aims to explore the contributions of such psychoanalytic-linguistic analysis of works of literature to the theory and practice of literary analysis or critique. What does it mean to interpret literature from this perspective and does it open literary meaning otherwise? The findings of the literary analysis confirm that psychosis can be located in literary works under specific conceptual definitions of psychosis, literature, interpreting psychosis and the interpretable of the literary. The literary analysis yielded, furthermore, novel principles of characterisation of psychotic literary language that contribute to the understanding of the creative power of psychosis

"Una mirada al feminicidio", Mariana Berlanga. Editorial Ítaca/ Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, 2018, 256 páginas, ISBN: 978-607-9465-58-2

La presente reseña representa una reflexión sobre el libro: Una mirada al feminicidio. Editorial Ítaca/ Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México. México. ISBN: 978-607-9465-58-2 publicado en México en 2018 donde se abordan las cosecuencias que ha tenido para el país ciertas representaciones e imágenes de las mujeres asesinadas en Ciudad Juárez, Chichuahua. Explica que  la manera en que los medios han "cubierto" el fenómeno ha contribuido a que la violencia feminicida se expanda por todo el territorio. Al mismo tiempo, presenta la otra cara de la emergencia: la organización y los movimientos sociales de familiares que juntos, han construido comunidad y con ello, agentes de ciudadanía y de defensa de los derechos humanos. </p

Reading football in Brazil through a boy’s own story

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health on 12 Feb 2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/2159676X.2013.877962This essay is a contribution to debates about football in Brazil. It is also an attempt to engage in discussions about how we come to know and talk about the social world around us. The central element of the essay is the story of one young man’s interaction with a particular sporting space and the emotions and insights that are triggered by memories of that place, situated as it is in a rapidly developing country but retaining many of the problems associated with under development. Absolved from any responsibility to adhere to a dominant value system or to feel constrained by research ethics, the storyteller is free to offer honest, if conflicted, personal reflections on a range of issues, including poverty, ‘race’ and sporting values. The result is a story which does not negate the necessity of more orthodox research on sport in Brazil, particularly related to the hosting of sport mega events but which reminds us of the importance of understanding the world through everyday personal experience

ICTs connecting global citizens, global dialogue and global governance. A call for needful designs

Humankind is on the transition to a supra-system of humanity, according to which social relationships – that organise the common good – are re-organised such that global challenges are kept below the threshold of a self-inflicted breakdown. In order to succeed, three conditions are imperative: (1) Global governance needs a global conscience that orients towards the protection of the common good. (2) Such global governance needs a global dialogue on the state of the common good and the ways to proceed. (3) Such a global dialogue needs global citizens able to reflect upon the current state of the common good and the ways to proceed to desired states. Each of these imperatives is about a space of possibilities. Each space nests the following one such that they altogether form the scaffolding along which institutions can emerge that realise the imperatives when proper nuclei are introduced in those spaces. Such nuclei would already support each other. However, the clue is to further their integration by Information and Communication Technologies. An information platform shall be launched that could cover any task on any of the three levels, entangled with the articulation of cooperative action from the local to the global, based on the cybersubsidiarity model. This model is devised to ensure the percolation of meaningful information throughout the different organisational levels.2019-2

Der Preis der Werte: 24. Februar 2019

Der österreichische Romancier und Essayist Robert Menasse, der für seinen Europa- Roman 'Die Hauptstadt' mit dem Deutschen Buchpreis 2017 ausgezeichnet worden ist, spricht in seiner Dresdner Rede am 24. Februar über den Preis der Werte. Ist es wirklich niemandem aufgefallen, dass zum ersten Mal seit 1945, seit die verwüstete europäische Zivilisation unter dem Baldachin „unserer Werte“ wieder aufgebaut wurde, „unsere Werte“ auf dem Weltmarkt einen präzisen Preis, auf den Euro oder Dollar genau, bekamen – und um diesen Preis tatsächlich verkauft wurden? Es ist geschehen. Was haben wir jetzt noch? Warum hört man kein Höllengelächter, wenn am Sonntag „unsere Werte“ beschworen werden? Was bedeutet das für unser Leben in Europa? Was bedeutet das für die Literatur als Reflexion unserer Zeitgenossenschaft? Was hat überhaupt noch Bedeutung

Europa sieht Deutschland: »Der deutsche Mensch als Symptom«

Festvortrag am Tag der Deutschen Einheit, 3. Oktober 2017, im Rahmen der Osnabrücker Friedensgespräch