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Wie Material das Patriarchat enttarnt

Das Sammeln von ausrangiertem Material ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil in Birke Gorms (geb. 1986 in Hamburg, lebt und arbeitet in Wien) Werk. Die dänisch-deutsche Künstlerin sucht gezielt Materialien, die überflüssig, defekt oder unverkäuflich sind und im kapitalistischen System als "tot" gelten. Bräunlich-dunkle Töne gehören zu Gorms Werken ebenso wie die Einfachheit des Materials. Jute, Sackleinen, Holz, Keramik oder Steine scheinen aus einer anderen als der hochindustrialisierten Welt der glatten Oberflächen zu stammen. Mit...

This original and insightful book explores how horses can be considered as social actors within shared interspecies networks. It examines what we know about how horses understand us and how we perceive them, as well as the implications of actively recognising other animals as actors within shared social lives. This book explores how interspecies relationships work, using a variety of examples to demonstrate how horses and people build social lives. Considering horses as social actors presents new possibilities for improving the quality of animal lives, the human condition and human-horse...

The distinction between author and narrator is one of the cornerstones of narrative theory. In the past two decades, however, scope, implications and consequences of this distinction have become the subjects of debate. This volume offers contributions to these debates from different vantage points: literary studies, linguistics, philosophy, and media studies. It thus manifests the status of narrative theory as a transdisciplinary project.

What is a body? What are our perceptions of our inner bodies? How are these perceptions influenced?

In recent years, thinking about the body has become highly fashionable. However, the renewed focus, while certainly welcome, seems to always end at the corporeal surface. While recent sociological and feminist theory has made important claims about the process of cultural inscription on the body, and about the cultural representation of the body, what actually appears in this new theory seems to be, ironically, disembodied. If this newly theorized form has interiority, it is one that...