Ruptures in Walls and Language: Performative Figures between Materiality and Figurative Sense

Authors

  • Holger Hartung

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/mae.2017.65

Abstract

The article examines figures of ruptures and cracks in film, literature and philosophy. It traces lines of connection between an uncanny hardware-store commercial, Heidegger’s ontology, Derrida’s deconstruction and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In asking, what kind of metaphors figures of cracks and ruptures are, how they affect our corporeality, and what kind of knowledge can be gained from them, the article argues for an ethical poetics that embraces material stories and suppressed histories.

Author Biography

Holger Hartung

Holger Hartung is coordinator of the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin. He studied theater, media and communication as well as North-America-studies in Berlin. Currently he is completing a dissertation in theater-/dance studies on ruptures, tears, cracks as performative figures of the in-between.

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Published

2017-11-28

How to Cite

Hartung, H. (2017). Ruptures in Walls and Language: Performative Figures between Materiality and Figurative Sense. Mediaesthetics – Journal of Poetics of Audiovisual Images, (2). https://doi.org/10.17169/mae.2017.65