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Hatred of Capitalism
Jean Baudrillard meets Cookie Mueller in this gathering of French theory and new American fiction. Compiled in 2001 to commemorate the passing of an era, Hatred of Capitalism brings together highlights of Semiotext(e)'s most beloved and prescient works. Semiotext(e)'s three-decade history mirrors the history of American thought. Founded by French theorist and critic Sylvere Lotringer as a scholarly journal in 1974, Semiotext(e) quickly took on the mission of melding French theory with the American art world and punk underground. Its Foreign Agents, Native Agents, Active Agents and Double Agents imprints have brought together thinkers and writers as diverse as Gilles Deleuze, Assata Shakur, Bob Flanagan, Paul Virillio, Kate Millet, Jean Baudrillard, Michelle Tea, William S. Burroughs, Eileen Myles, Ulrike Meinhof, and Fanny Howe. In Hatred of Capitalism, editors Kraus and Lotringer bring these people together in the same volume for the first time.
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After Kathy Acker
Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. In this first, fully authorized biography, Kraus approaches Acker both as a writer, and as a member of the artistic communities from which she emerged. At once forensic and intimate, After Kathy Acker traces the extreme discipline and literary strategies Acker used to develop her work, and the contradictions she longed to embody. Using exhaustive archival research and ongoing conversations with mutual colleagues and friends, Kraus charts Acker's movement through some of the late 20th century's most significant artistic enterprises.
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Das erzählte Selbst
Identitätsentwicklung in einer krisenhaften Spätmoderne: Aus der Sicht der Sozialpsychologie stellt sich die Frage, ob und wie in Gesellschaften 'ohne Projekt', ohne übergreifende, sinnstiftende 'Metaerzählungen', die Individuen noch kohärente Selbste bilden und bewahren könne. Denn die einzelnen sehen sich beständigen Umbauforderungen ihrer Identität ausgesetzt. Diskutiert werden zunächst neuere psychologische Theorien der Identitätsentwicklung als 'Kommentare zu einer krisenhaften Spätmoderne' (J.E. Marcia, C. Camilleri und Glynis Breakwell). Sie zeugen alle von einer wachsenden Skepsis gegenüber dem normativen Anspruch einer 'gelingenden Identität'. Ein weiterer Schritt stellt die Frage nach der Kohärenz des Erlebens. Ausgangspunkt ist die Multiple Persönlichkeitsstörung als Extremfall psychischer Dissoziation. Gefragt wird nach den normativen Einlagerungen in das Konzept der Kohärenz.Als theoretisches Modell wird schließlich das Konzept der narrativen Identität vorgeschlagen: Identität wird erzählend konstruiert. Die einzelnen arbeiten sich ab an dem Repertoire an Selbst-Geschichten, das in einer Gesellschaft möglich ist. Das Erzählen ist ein sozialer Austauschprozeß, denn jede Selbst-Narration muß von anderen bestätigt werden. Ein wichtiger Fokus von solchen Selbst-Erzählungen ist die zukunftsorientierte Formulierung von Identitätsprojekten. Denn Identitätsbildung als dynamisches Geschehen findet nicht bloß situativ statt, sondern wesentlich auch prospektiv.Auf der Basis dieses theoretischen Modells werden in einer empirischen Studie Identitätsprojekte von jungen Erwachsenen analysiert. Die gefundenen Typen können gelesen werden als Kommentare zur Identitätsentwicklung in einer krisenhaften Spätmoderne.Der Autor, Dr. Wolfgang Kraus, ist derzeit wissenschaftlicher Angestellter an der Universität München, Sonderforschungsbereich 536, Projekt B2: Individualisierung und posttraditionale Ligaturen - die soziale Figuration der reflexiven Moderne.
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Karl Kraus
At no time did Vienna playa greater role in the intellectual and artistic life of the German speaking peoples and of Europe than in the first three decades of the present century. It was the home of Mahler and SchOnberg, of Hofmannsthal and Schnitzler, of Mach and Wittgen- stein, of Freud and of Austro-Marxism. Less known outside the Ger- man-speaking world was Karl Kraus, whose whole work was insepa- rably connected with the Vienna of his time and who, perhaps for this reason, may seem today more "provincial" than the others whom we have just named. Kraus was an apocalyptic moralist: The titles of some of his more important works unmistakably reveal it: "The last days of mankind"; "The day of judgment" (WeUgerieht); "The end of the world by black magic" (U ntergang der Welt dureh die sehwarzeM agie). Like Kierkegaard, he was a witness against his time. But the symbolic object of the time against which Kraus bore witness was of an infinitely minor quality than Kierkegaard's. He did not attack the church of his country or the Christianity of his days; his main target was the Viennese press, a target of quickly passing importance, of which little remains today.Kraus was a master of satirical invective and of the German lan- guage, which he regarded as his most precious inheritance (Ahnenerbe). He felt a deep sense of responsibility for the proper use of the language.
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Karl Kraus
A fascinating study of the life and work of Karl Kraus, the Austrian satirist whose critiques of the mass media, the military-industrial complex, and technology running out of control have earned him a following fifty years after his death. Drawing on unfamiliar sources, Edward Timms analyzes Kraus's involvement in fundamental ideological issues of his time, such as psychoanalysis, social morality, design and architecture, the role of the artist, Zionism, anti-semitism, and war, and shows that Kraus' political position—caught between traditional Habsburg loyalties and new democratic commitments—was far more complex than has previously been suspected. "Dr. Timms' book is a major landmark in Kraus' studies, and an important contribution to our understanding of the culture of the early 20th century. It abounds in discoveries and insights."—W.E. Yeats, Times Literary Supplement "Timm's lucid prose, his masterly organization of the voluminous material he treats, his excellent translations of the documents he cites and his broad, readable portrayal of Viennese fin-de-siecle culture make this study accessible to the average reader and a pleasure for the literary professional. . . . An example of German studies at its best."—James Knowlton, European Studies Journal "Timms successfully weaves a colorful, and thoroughly researched and documented, account of essential cultural currents in Habsburg Vienna around his central figure. Copious illustrations and photographs enhance a most enjoyable text, making this an ideal introduction to Kraus and his work."—Choice
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Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist, Volume 2
In this second volume of Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist, Edward Timms takes up Kraus’s story in November 1918, when the satirist responded to the creation of the new republics with a defiant hope, invoking international law against the dual threat of reactionary politics and irresponsible media. While contemporaries like Walter Benjamin regarded Kraus as heroically isolated, this book places him within a dynamic field of cultural production. Timms highlights the court cases Kraus pursued with his lawyer Oskar Samek and the theatrical projects that earned him Brecht’s friendship.In the final section of the book, the author refutes the legend that Kraus responded with stunned silence to Hitler’s seizure of power. His career culminated in Third Walpurgis Night, an analysis of Nazi ideology that has proved enduringly influential. Timms concludes that Kraus’s lifelong critique of the media, combining Orwell’s political radicalism with Joyce’s linguistic playfulness, incisively anticipates the propaganda techniques of our own age.
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Social Practices
Essays on and around art and art practices by the author of I Love Dick. A border isn't a metaphor. Knowing each other for over a decade makes us witnesses to each other's lives. My escape is his prison. We meet in a bar and smoke Marlboros. -from Social Practices Mixing biography, autobiography, fiction, criticism, and conversations among friends, with Social Practices Chris Kraus continues the anthropological exploration of artistic lives and the art world begun in 2004 with Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness. Social Practices includes writings from and around the legendary "Chance Event-Three Days in the Desert with Jean Baudrillard" (1996), and "Radical Localism," an exhibition of art and media from Puerto Nuevo's Mexicali Rose that Kraus co-organized with Marco Vera and Richard Birkett in 2012. Attuned to the odd and the anomalous, Kraus profiles Elias Fontes, an Imperial Valley hay merchant who has become an important collector of contemporary Mexican art, and chronicles the demise of a rural convenience store in northern Minnesota. She considers the work of such major contemporary artists as Jason Rhoades, Channa Horowitz, Simon Denny, Yayoi Kusama, Henry Taylor, Julie Becker, Ryan McGinley, and Leigh Ledare. Although Kraus casts a skeptical eye at the genre that's come to be known as "social practice," her book is less a critique than a proposition as to how art might be read through desire and circumstance, delirium, gossip, coincidence, and revenge. All art, she implies, is a social practice.
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New Type of Womanhood
In A New Type of Womanhood, Natasha Kirsten Kraus retells the history of the 1850s woman’s rights movement. She traces how the movement changed society’s very conception of “womanhood” in its successful bid for economic rights and rights of contract for married women. Kraus demonstrates that this discursive change was a necessary condition of possibility for U.S. women to be popularly conceived as civil subjects within a Western democracy, and she shows that many rights, including suffrage, followed from the basic right to form legal contracts. She analyzes this new conception of women as legitimate economic actors in relation to antebellum economic and demographic changes as well as changes in the legal structure and social meanings of contract.Enabling Kraus’s retelling of the 1850s woman’s rights movement is her theory of “structural aporias,” which takes the institutional structures of any particular society as fully imbricated with the force of language. Kraus reads the antebellum relations of womanhood, contract, property, the economy, and the nation as a fruitful site for analysis of the interconnected power of language, culture, and the law. She combines poststructural theory, particularly deconstructive approaches to discourse analysis; the political economic history of the antebellum era; and the interpretation of archival documents, including woman’s rights speeches, petitions, pamphlets, and convention proceedings, as well as state legislative debates, reports, and constitutional convention proceedings. Arguing that her method provides critical insight not only into social movements and cultural changes of the past but also of the present and future, Kraus concludes A New Type of Womanhood by considering the implications of her theory for contemporary feminist and queer politics.
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Facing Barriers
Palestinian women have slowly become active in the formal labor market in Israel. In this book, Vered Kraus and Yuval Yonay describe and analyse the labor experience of these Palestinian women, and explain why Palestinian and Jewish women have different rates and outcomes in the labor market. Challenging popular views that ascribe these differences to Arab culture and Islam, they instead find that it is state policies and widespread discrimination that hinder Palestinian women's participation and success. By including the various Palestinian sub-groups - Muslims, Bedouins, Druze, Christians, non-citizen residents of Jerusalem - this book shows how the specific life circumstances of the women from these subgroups affect their employment and achievements. The book thus enriches the acute discussion on the labour market experiences of Muslim and Arab women in the Middle East and North Africa and in advanced industrialized societies.
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Sozialstaat in Europa
Im Spannungsfeld von Traditionen, EU-Einigungsprozessen und globalen Entwicklungen haben die Debatten um den "Umbau des Sozialstaates" ein neues Stadium erreicht. Eine Politik der Individualisierung und Privatisierung hat sich mittlerweile zum sozialpolitischen Leitmotiv entwickelt und lässt den auf solidarischen Prinzipien beruhenden Sozialstaat alter Prägung vielfach als Auslaufmodell erscheinen. Im vorliegenden Sammelband werden in Fallstudien Geschichte, Entwicklung und Perspektiven der Sozialstaatsmodelle von EU-Mitgliedsstaaten (Großbritannien, Deutschland, Frankreich, Niederlanden, Italien, Schweden), EU-Beitrittskandidaten (Polen, Türkei) und einem europäischen nicht EU-Staat (Schweiz) dargestellt. Darüber hinaus werden die Einflüsse der EU auf nationale Reformprojekte sowie der aktuelle Stand der Bemühung um eine Harmonisierung der Sozialpolitik auf EU-Ebene analysiert. Ziel der Beiträge ist es, die Dynamiken, Brüche und Traditionen innerhalb der Sozialpolitiken der einzelnen Länder herauszuarbeiten und sie vor dem Hintergrund der europäischen Integrationspolitik zu diskutieren.
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Oskar Kraus: Sämtliche Werke. Band 1: Die Werttheorien
Oskar Kraus (1872–1942) war unter den Vertretern der orthodoxen Brentano-Schule der vielleicht originellste Kopf. Er hat sich nicht nur als Mitherausgeber von Franz Brentanos nachgelassenen Schriften verdient gemacht, sondern er hat auch Brentanos werttheoretischen Ansatz für die Gebiete der Ethik, der Rechtsphilosophie und der Ökonomie fruchtbar gemacht. In seinem 1937 erschienenen Hauptwerk „Die Werttheorien. Geschichte und Kritik“ rekonstruiert Oskar Kraus detailliert Brentanos werttheoretischen Ansatz und entwirft davon ausgehend eine kritische Geschichte der Werttheorie von der Antike bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. Im Zentrum steht dabei die Auseinandersetzung mit den relativistischen Theorien seiner Zeitgenossen, denn Kraus sah in Brentanos Ansatz der Wertbegründung ein Mittel gegen diesen ethischen Relativismus.Oskar Kraus gehörte zur zweiten Generation der Brentano-Schule. In Prag hatte er neben Rechtswissenschaften auch Philosophie bei Anton Marty studiert. Dieser gehörte neben anderen bedeutenden Philosophen wie Edmund Husserl, Thomas G. Masaryk oder Christian von Ehrenfels zur ersten Generation der Brentano-Schule und gilt als der treueste Schüler Franz Brentanos. Dieses wichtigste Werk von Oskar Kraus ist einerseits für die Brentano-Forschung von Bedeutung. Es richtet sich aber auch an Masterstudierende und Wissenschaftler, die sich für die Grundlagen der Ethik oder generell für die Geschichte der Moralphilosophie und insbesondere die des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts interessieren. Eingeleitet wird das Buch von Thomas Binder, der seit 2011 das Franz Brentano-Archiv Graz leitet. Er ist unter anderem Mitherausgeber der „Sämtlichen veröffentlichten Schriften“ Franz Brentanos.
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Blood Sugar
From Daniel Kraus, the New York Times bestselling co-author of Academy Award-winning Best Picture The Shape of Water, comes Blood Sugar, the blood-curdling story of a Halloween where trick-or-treat becomes life or death...“A hard kick in the shins you never saw coming... And wow, is it fun to read” – LitReactor Best of 2019 PickWHEN TRICK OR TREATBECOMES LIFE OR DEATH From the dark imagination of bestselling novelist Daniel Kraus - co-author with Guillermo del Toro of THE SHAPE OF WATER - comes a Halloween crime story that's like nothing you've ever read before.In a ruined house at the end of Yellow Street, an angry outcast hatches a scheme to take revenge for all the wrongs he has suffered. With the help of three alienated kids, he plans to hide razor blades, poison, and broken glass in Halloween candy, maiming or killing dozens of innocent children. But as the clock ticks closer to sundown, will one of his helpers - an innocent himself, in his own streetwise way - carry out or defeat the plan?Told from the child's point of view, in a voice as unforgettable as A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, Kraus' novel is at once frightening and emotional, thought-provoking and laugh-out-loud funny. It'll make you rethink your concepts of family, loyalty, and justice - and will leave you double-checking the wrappers on your Halloween candy for the rest of your days.
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Limits of Hobbesian Contractarianism
This 1994 book constitutes a sustained, comprehensive, and rigorous critique of contemporary Hobbesian contractarianism as expounded in the work of Jean Hampton, Gregory Kavka, and David Gauthier. Professor Kraus argues that the attempts by these three philosophers to use Hobbes to answer current political and moral questions fail. The reasons why they fail are related to fundamental problems intrinsic to Hobbesian contractarianism: first, the problem of collective action arising out of the tension in Hobbes's theory between individual and collective rationality; second, the classical problem of explaining the normative force of hypothetical action, a problem that can be traced to the conflicting strategies of hypothetical justification found in Rawls's and Hobbes's theories. Given the deep interest in Hobbesian contractarianism among philosophers, political theorists, game theorists in economics and political science, and legal theorists, this book is likely to attract wide attention and infuse life into the contractarian debate.
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