A Posthumous Existence – Notes toward An Epitaphics of Textual Memory

Taking Theodor W. Adorno’s Minima Moralia as its point of departure, my talk reads instances of allusion, citationality, intertextuality as constitutive of a critical practice that displaces thought onto a kaleidoscope of literary resonances. This critical practice, I suggest, maps out a conceptual space for acts of reading which have become acts of mourning as they re-call, re-member, re-present.

Presented by Soelve Curdts, Visiting Max Kade Professor in German