VERKÖRPERUNGEN DER (OHN-)MACHT BEI JULI ZEH – DARSTELLUNGEN DES PHYSISCHEN ZWISCHEN RESSOURCE UND VERLETZLICHKEIT
EMBODIMENTS OF POWER(LESSNESS). THE PHYSICAL BETWEEN RESSOURCE AND VULNERABILITY INJULI ZEH’S WORK
Author(s): Lucas AltSubject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, German Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: biopolitics; despised bodies; digitisation; disease; dystopia; Juli Zeh; materialism; mindbody dualism; precariousness; unavailablity;
Summary/Abstract: Featuring dystopian elements, Juli Zeh’s novels Spieltrieb (2004), Corpus Delicti. Ein Prozess (2009) and Leere Herzen (2017) critically examine postmodern practices of political power. In particular, it is the (human) body, partially unavailable and therefore despised, at which practices of control and discipline are aimed. Following the logic of the “expulsion of the Other” (Han 2016), the physico-material thus becomes not only the target object, but also the antagonist of rational systems and totalitarian governmentality.
Journal: Studia Germanica Posnaniensia
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 41
- Page Range: 83-100
- Page Count: 18
- Language: German