More than six hundred years ago, a conspiracy theory about the murder of children went viral in a brand new medium, and it has circulated in ever-changing forms to the present day, inspiring vigilantism, mob violence, and state persecution.
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the NYU Department of German present an evening with Ann Cotten, DAAD Chair for Contemporary Poetics at the NYU Department of German, and Ulrich Baer, University Professor at NYU. About the event: Ann Cotten will offer a short introduction to her varied works of theory, poetry, and prose in German, as well as the small…
A true event cannot merely be the object of already given theories: it challenges them and interrogates the very sense it makes to practice theory in general. This is eminently true of May 68 in France: it has been an event for “Theory.” However, its theoretical implications have been too often obfuscated by hasty interpretations that projected on it some vague Zeitgeist aptly coined…