Das Hotel als heterotopischer Ort. Hotelromane des 20. Jahrhunderts aus komparatistischer Perspektive
Die Arbeit untersucht den Raum im „Hotelroman“ unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der vier Themenbereiche Sexualität, Macht, Gender und Zeit sowie der drei theoretischen Komplexe Heterotopie (Michel Foucault), Chronotopos (Michail Bachtin) und...
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Die Arbeit untersucht den Raum im „Hotelroman“ unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der vier Themenbereiche Sexualität, Macht, Gender und Zeit sowie der drei theoretischen Komplexe Heterotopie (Michel Foucault), Chronotopos (Michail Bachtin) und Raumsemantik/Grenzüberschreitung (Jurij Lotman).
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Irreversible processes : between thermodynamics, biology, and semiotics of culture
The essay will focus on three of the "many faces of irreversibility", sketching a history of irreversibility in 20th-century Russian thought: The abstract irreversibility of time in physics, the 'embodied' irreversibility of biological evolution and,...
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The essay will focus on three of the "many faces of irreversibility", sketching a history of irreversibility in 20th-century Russian thought: The abstract irreversibility of time in physics, the 'embodied' irreversibility of biological evolution and, finally, the irreversibility of cultural processes. The first part will trace the history of irreversibility in 19th-century physics and biology. The second part will discuss Vladimir Vernadsky's theory of biological time as an attempt to synthesize physical and biological irreversible processes ('neobratimye protsessy') as phenomena of asymmetry in space-time. The third part will look at the migration of scientific ideas of irreversibility into the theory of culture, i.e., Juri Lotman's semiotic theory of irreversibility as unpredictable and unrepeatable processes of culture. In this three-step sketch, the history of irreversibility will be outlined as one of spatialization (from an abstract law to the image of 'time's arrow') and of specialization (from the law of entropy to the case of the generation of meaning).
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