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***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Adelson: Prof. Dr. Leslie Adelson ist Jacob Gould Schurman Professorin für German Studies an der Cornell University, USA. ***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Jones: N.D. Jones promoviert im Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies an der University of North Carolina, USA. ***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Langston: Dr. Richard Langston ist Zachary Smith Distinguished Term Associate Professor für Germanistik an der University of North Carolina, USA. ***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Vedder: Ulrike Vedder ist Professorin für Neuere deutsche Literatur (Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart, Theorien und Methoden der literaturwissenschaftlichen Geschlechterforschung) an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. ***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Wilms: Leonie Wilms promoviert im Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies an der University of North Carolina, USA. »Die poetische Kraft der Theorie« bezieht sich für Alexander Kluge weniger auf reine »Philosophie« oder die abgesonderte »Lust am Denken« als vielmehr auf die altgriechische Praxis der »Theoria«. Wie der antike Theoretiker namens Theoros, der als Gesandter aus fremden Ländern heimkehrte, um von anderen Völkern und Kulturen zu erzählen, strebt Kluges Interesse an der poetischen Kraft der Theorie nach der Anreicherung der menschlichen Wesenskräfte, die subjektive Erfahrung von Differenz in einer Krisenzeit auszudrücken, in der die Werkzeuge des Erzählens verarmt sind. Diese Ausgabe des Jahrbuchs erkundet Kluges Theorie dieses narrativen Potenzials im stürmischen Zeitalter der Digitalität, das von Algorithmen regiert, mit Informationen überflutet und von sozialen Unruhen zerrüttet ist. “The poetic power of theory” has for Alexander Kluge less to do with pure “philosophy” or the solitary “pleasures in thinking” than with the ancient Greek practice of “theoria”. Like the ancient theoretician called theoros, who returned home from foreign lands to tell of other peoples and cultures, Kluge's interest in the poetic force of theory seeks to fortify humankind's essential powers for expressing the subjective experience of difference at a time of crisis when the necessary tools for narration have become impoverished. The sixth volume of the yearbook queries Kluge's theory of narrative's potential in the stormy age of digitality governed by algorithms, flooded with information, and disrupted by social conflict.

Alexander Kluge. --- Digitales Zeitalter. --- Filmwissenschaft. --- Informationsüberfluss. --- Kritische Theorie. --- Literaturwissenschaft. --- Medienwissenschaft. --- Narration. --- Narrativität.

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Alexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteur television programming, he has also cowritten three acclaimed volumes of critical theory, published countless essays and numerous works of fiction, and continues to make films even as he expands his video production to the internet. Despite Kluge's five decades of work in philosophy, literature, television, and media politics, his reputation outside of the German-speaking world still largely rests on his films of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. With the aim of introducing Kluge's heterogeneous mind to an Anglophone readership, Difference and Orientation assembles thirty of his essays, speeches, glossaries, and interviews, revolving around the capacity for differentiation and the need for orientation toward ways out of catastrophic modernity. This landmark volume brings together some of Kluge's most fundamental statements on literature, film, pre- and post-cinematic media, and social theory, nearly all for the first time in English translation. Together, these works highlight Kluge's career-spanning commitment to unorthodox, essayistic thinking.

Literature --- Motion pictures --- Social sciences --- Social philosophy --- Social theory --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Philosophy. --- History and criticism --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Alexander Kluge, Aesthetics, Media Theory, Film Theory, Critical Theory.