Trauerarbeit / Maulwurf Krieg

edited by Rainer Stollmann, Vincent Pauval and Gunther Martens

Book cover: Trauerarbeit / Maulwurf Krieg

Extent: 398 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Social Sciences , Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Series: Alexander Kluge - Jahrbuch

Series volume number: 8

Language: German

Paperback (Published)

(September 2022)

ISBN: 9783847114901

6.1 x 9.13 inches

Price: $50.00

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Das Schwarze Loch im Zentrum der Milchstrasse ist zum ersten Mal mit grossem Aufwand fotografiert worden. Trotzdem, sagt Alexander Kluge, sind Tranen eine bessere Verstarkung des Auges als das Fernrohr. Uber Krieg wurde immer zu wenig geweint.


The desire to look only a few weeks or months into the future has probably grown enormously in Europe since February 24, 2022. The situation has never been as uncertain after 1945 as it is now. The deformation of the classical public sphere is massive. Memories of war are so pale that the art of evading its pull appears as cowardice, immorality, weakness. The search term or metaphor “mole war” is aimed at this entire context of the shocking presence of war in a politics that, according to old habit, pretends to have everything under control instead of reflecting on the danger of the real situation.

  • Edited by Gunther Martens
  • Edited by Vincent Pauval
  • Edited by Rainer Stollmann