Cultural Techniques : : Assembling Spaces, Texts and Collectives.

• Author: Dünne, Jörg.
• TeilnehmendeR: Fehringer, Kathrin.; Kuhn, Kristina.; Struck, Wolfgang.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2020.; {copy}2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Spaces -- Working on Barricades and Boulevards: Cultural Techniques of Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Paris -- Cultural Techniques and Founding Fictions -- A Message in a Bottle -- Waiting: Cultural Techniques, Media, and Infrastructures -- Orthopedics by the Roadside: Spikes and Studs as Devices of Social Normalization -- Ballooning: Aeronautical Techniques from Montgolfier to Google -- Texts/Bodies -- Attached: The Object and the Collective -- Monturen/montures: On Riding, Dressing, and Wearing. Nomadic Cultural Techniques and (the Marginalization) of Asian Clothing in Europe -- Self-Imprints of Nature -- Identifying, Categorizing, and Stigmatizing Fat Bodies -- Techniques of the Body and Storytelling: From Marcel Mauss to César Aira -- Collectives -- Writing Out - Gathered Up at a Venture from All Four Corners of the Earth: Jean Paul's Techniques and Operations (on Excerpts) -- Collecting Texts: Miscellaneity in Journals, Anthologies, and Novels (Jean Paul) -- Reading by Grouping: Collecting Discipline(s) in Brockhaus's Bilder-Atlas -- Patience and Precipitation: Two Figures of Historical Change -- The Fruit Fly, the Vermin, and the Prokurist: Operations of Appearing in Kafka's Metamorphosis -- Collective Likeness: Mimetic Aspects of Liking -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index.