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Can we communicate the incommunicable? Language is general, but the “depths of the soul” are unique, and only the experience lived in silence is authentic. Would it be possible to find a language that would appear to say something but that would communicate nothing but the incommunicable? The present volume analyses how, by developing the simulacrum of a language or “pure media”, Klossowski managed to move beyond the prevarications of Gide, so hesitant to speak or remain silent about his “Uranianism”, and the wrath of Bataille or Sade, equating destruction and purity, to finally arrive at the Nietzschean innocence that creates gods. Tenter de communiquer l’incommunicable, c’est se frotter à un paradoxe. Car si le langage est général, le « fond de l’âme » est singulier, et seule est authentique l’expérience vécue dans le silence. Vouloir la dire, c’est se livrer au code des signes quotidiens ; quant à la taire, comme disait Sartre, « ce n’est pas être muet, c’est refuser de parler, donc parler encore ». Si l’on ne sort pas du langage, ne pourrait-on en faire un usage différent, souverain, non assujetti aux normes de l’échange – trouver un langage qui ferait semblant de dire quelque chose mais qui ne communiquerait rien que de l’incommunicable ? Fondé sur de nombreux documents inédits, le présent ouvrage analyse comment, par l’élaboration d’un simulacre de langage ou « pur média », Klossowski parvient à dépasser les tergiversations de Gide, hésitant à dire ou à taire son uranisme, les fureurs de Bataille ou Sade, assimilant destruction et pureté, pour retrouver enfin l’innocence nietzschéenne créatrice de dieux.

France --- French --- 20th century --- Philosophy of language --- The self, ego, identity, personality --- simulacre --- simulacrum --- community --- complicité --- translation --- personal identity --- fond de l'âme --- madness --- traduction --- autobiographie --- identité personnelle --- homosexualité --- folie --- homosexuality --- autobiography --- complicity --- communauté --- depth of the soul --- communication --- Klossowski, Pierre --- Gide, André, --- Bataille, Georges, --- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation --- simulacre --- simulacrum --- community --- complicité --- translation --- personal identity --- fond de l'âme --- madness --- traduction --- autobiographie --- identité personnelle --- homosexualité --- folie --- homosexuality --- autobiography --- complicity --- communauté --- depth of the soul --- communication

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Can we communicate the incommunicable? Language is general, but the “depths of the soul” are unique, and only the experience lived in silence is authentic. Would it be possible to find a language that would appear to say something but that would communicate nothing but the incommunicable? The present volume analyses how, by developing the simulacrum of a language or “pure media”, Klossowski managed to move beyond the prevarications of Gide, so hesitant to speak or remain silent about his “Uranianism”, and the wrath of Bataille or Sade, equating destruction and purity, to finally arrive at the Nietzschean innocence that creates gods. Tenter de communiquer l’incommunicable, c’est se frotter à un paradoxe. Car si le langage est général, le « fond de l’âme » est singulier, et seule est authentique l’expérience vécue dans le silence. Vouloir la dire, c’est se livrer au code des signes quotidiens ; quant à la taire, comme disait Sartre, « ce n’est pas être muet, c’est refuser de parler, donc parler encore ». Si l’on ne sort pas du langage, ne pourrait-on en faire un usage différent, souverain, non assujetti aux normes de l’échange – trouver un langage qui ferait semblant de dire quelque chose mais qui ne communiquerait rien que de l’incommunicable ? Fondé sur de nombreux documents inédits, le présent ouvrage analyse comment, par l’élaboration d’un simulacre de langage ou « pur média », Klossowski parvient à dépasser les tergiversations de Gide, hésitant à dire ou à taire son uranisme, les fureurs de Bataille ou Sade, assimilant destruction et pureté, pour retrouver enfin l’innocence nietzschéenne créatrice de dieux.

Klossowski, Pierre --- Gide, André, --- Bataille, Georges, --- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation --- simulacre --- simulacrum --- community --- complicité --- translation --- personal identity --- fond de l'âme --- madness --- traduction --- autobiographie --- identité personnelle --- homosexualité --- folie --- homosexuality --- autobiography --- complicity --- communauté --- depth of the soul --- communication

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Reluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr. Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia, where he died of typhoid in 1942. He wrote most of these letters to his wife, Elisabeth. His son, acclaimed German historian Konrad H. Jarausch, brings them together here to tell the gripping story of a patriotic soldier of the Third Reich who, through witnessing its atrocities in the East, begins to doubt the war's moral legitimacy. These letters grow increasingly critical, and their vivid descriptions of the mass deaths of Russian POWs are chilling. They reveal the inner conflicts of ordinary Germans who became reluctant accomplices in Hitler's merciless war of annihilation, yet sometimes managed to discover a shared humanity with its suffering victims, a bond that could transcend race, nationalism, and the enmity of war. Reluctant Accomplice is also the powerful story of the son, who for decades refused to come to grips with these letters because he abhorred his father's nationalist politics. Only now, late in his life, is he able to cope with their contents--and he is by no means alone. This book provides rare insight into the so-called children of the war, an entire generation of postwar Germans who grew up resenting their past, but who today must finally face the painful legacy of their parents' complicity in National Socialism.

Soldiers --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Intellectuals --- Atrocities. --- Campaigns --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Jarausch, Konrad, --- Adolf Hitler. --- Dulag. --- Germans. --- Jews. --- Konrad Jarausch. --- National Socialism. --- Nazi Germany. --- Nazis. --- Nazism. --- Poland. --- Poles. --- Protestant Church. --- Protestant pedagogy. --- Third Reich. --- USSR. --- World War II. --- army training. --- children. --- complicity. --- education. --- genocide. --- humanism. --- humanity. --- imperialism. --- letters. --- nationalism. --- new recruits. --- prisoner of war. --- transnational humanity.

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When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from regimes of domination that we neither set up nor control. Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our connection to injustices past and present, Michael Rothberg offers a new theory of political responsibility through the figure of the implicated subject. The Implicated Subject builds on the comparative, transnational framework of Rothberg's influential work on memory to engage in reflection and analysis of cultural texts, archives, and activist movements from such contested zones as transitional South Africa, contemporary Israel/Palestine, post-Holocaust Europe, and a transatlantic realm marked by the afterlives of slavery. As these diverse sites of inquiry indicate, the processes and histories illuminated by implicated subjectivity are legion in our interconnected world. An array of globally prominent artists, writers, and thinkers—from William Kentridge, Hito Steyerl, and Jamaica Kincaid, to Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi, Judith Butler, and the Combahee River Collective—speak to this interconnection and show how confronting our own implication in difficult histories can lead to new forms of internationalism and long-distance solidarity.

Agent (Philosophy). --- Collective memory. --- Responsibility. --- Responsibility --- Agent (Philosophy) --- Collective memory --- Agency (Philosophy) --- Agents --- Person (Philosophy) --- Act (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Accountability --- Moral responsibility --- Obligation --- Ethics --- Supererogation --- #KVHA:Collectief geheugen --- #KVHA:Collectieve verantwoordelijkheid --- #KVHA:Politieke verantwoordelijkheid --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Holocaust. --- bystander. --- complicity. --- internationalism. --- memory. --- perpetrator. --- responsibility. --- solidarity. --- victim. --- violence.

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This book examines the notion of storytelling in videogames. This topic allows new perspectives on the enduring problem of narrative in digital games, while also opening up different avenues of inquiry. The collection looks at storytelling in games from many perspectives. Topics include the remediation of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in games such as Spec Ops: The Line; the storytelling similarities in Twin Peaks and Deadly Premonition, a new concept of ‘choice poetics’; the esthetics of Alien films and games, and a new theoretical overview of early game studies on narrative

play --- n/a --- storytelling --- poetics --- roleplay --- survival horror --- game storytelling --- game narrative --- pornography --- empathy games --- games --- ludonarrative dissonance --- Larry McMurtry --- digital games --- AAA --- mapping --- ludology --- fantasy --- fifth look --- choice poetics --- film --- musicals --- literary adaptation --- choices --- video games --- politics --- gender --- interactive storytelling --- FPS --- narrative games --- Gamergate --- transmedia --- remediation --- narrative theory --- psychology --- the uncanny --- shared vocabulary --- complicity --- ability --- Haraway --- videogames --- Twin Peaks --- Deadly Premonition --- Alien --- gaming --- defamiliarization --- ludonarrative --- Walter Benjamin --- narratology --- carnivalesque --- Bakhtin --- player goals --- interactive digital narrative --- game fiction --- cyborg --- Video games. --- Storytelling --- Computer games. --- Computer games --- Electronic games --- Internet games --- Television games --- Videogames --- Games --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Folklore --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Performance