Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2021-9029
Alyson Miller
Abstract Whilst frequently dismissed as “cliché, banal, derivative, portentous, repetitive, and manipulative” (Hodgkinson), offering little other than “fidget-spinner” distractions to appease the masses (Roberts), Instapoetry is a slippery, intricate mode. The simplicity of its aesthetic belies its complex political manoeuvrings, marked by an imperative towards a progressive ideology that contests the sexism and racism of dominant culture. Indeed, despite its “byte-sized” accessibility (Bresge), Instapoetry is deceptive, evoking discourses of ‘outsiderness’ that locate the genre within an often-problematic logic of rebellion. Examining black feminist Instapoets such as Aja Monet, Yrsa Daley-Ward, and Nayyirah Waheed, as well as ‘superstars’ of the genre, including Rupi Kaur, Atticus, and Nikita Gill, this paper argues that there is a persistent disjuncture between the extra-textual commentary surrounding Instapoetry, particularly by way of interviews and artistic statements, and the content of works which repeatedly reinscribe conservative, patriarchal, and heteronormative worldviews. Whilst the pithy convenience of new media poetries has undoubtedly helped magnify oppressed voices and perspectives, it has also, more cynically, fostered an insistence on universality that erases complexity and difference in the (largely aesthetic) interests of harmony, and the appeasement of both dominant and minority cultures.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2021-9028
S. Feldhaus
Abstract In 2012 Georg Diez provoked a literary scandal with his review of Christian Kracht’s novel Imperium. Since then, almost ninety informed studies which show an ongoing academic interest in the book have been published. Many of these studies attempted to explain the apparently failing analogy between Hitler and Engelhardt that the novel claimed in an irritating manner. Nevertheless, none of them took an esoteric approach which Kracht himself suggested in an interview with Denis Scheck as a starting point for their analyses, although esoteric references seem to be an ignored constant in Kracht’s oeuvre since Tristesse Royale. Hence, by tracing this esoteric intertextuality in the whole of Kracht’s oeuvre and linking it to the references which Kracht makes to right-wing ideologies since Faserland, it will be shown that there actually does exist an analogy between Hitler and Engelhardt in Imperium which aims to deconstruct Hitler mythemes by ridiculizing Engelhardt. Furthermore, it will be demonstrated that the interrelations between Kracht’s texts create a rhizomatic network of intertextuality that dissolves the boarders between external references and self-references.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2021-9027
M. Clemens
Abstract The coincidences and phantasms that open Lessing’s play Nathan the Wise reappear throughout the entire drama and even bring about its happy ending. While the usual interpretation of the plot maintains that the illusions held by the protagonists of the play – such as their superstitions, unrestrained affects, and prejudices – are overcome via a learning process and transformed into tolerance, I propose a different view. In this article I argue, firstly, that these previous illusions are already slightly enlightened, rather than completely dim and dull, and, secondly, that this process only ostensibly leads to tolerance. As a consequence, my analysis focuses on the negotiation between tolerance and intolerance. Finally, I arrive at the conclusion that the maid Daja actually represents tolerance in a better way than the protagonists because she is the only one from whom tolerant endurance is demanded. The analysis of the affective patterns of the play demonstrate that Nathan the Wise can not only be read as a parable of tolerance, but also as a parable of the formation of a privileged habitus within the realm of the family.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2021-9026
Martin Blumenthal-Barby
Abstract When Hannah Arendt delivered her Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in 1970, she held a seminar on Kant’s Critique of Judgment to explore aspects of her lecture course in greater detail. This essay probes Arendt’s seminar notes with an eye to the concept of ‘exemplary validity,’ which is at the core of her theory of judgment. Notably, her analysis repeatedly draws on the force of examples, that is, the force of ‘exemplary validity.’ Her theorization of judgment, itself inevitably subject to her own judgment, can be understood as an enactment of and commentary on the very matter she discusses. It is not by chance but rather symptomatic that her argumentation is permeated by strategically placed examples that seek to persuade us by dint of their exemplary validity.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.18239/ATENEA_2021.24.00
Gonzalo Melgar del Corral, Mercedes de Dios Aguado, María Concepción Villar de la Fuente, María Fátima Gallego Moreno
La lactancia materna en la actualidad se enfrenta a importantes dificultades sociales, laborales y familiares que hacen que las cifras de prevalencia materna estén muy por debajo de las recomendaciones de expertos y autoridades. Por este motivo la promoción de la LM ha empezado a ser una labor que se desarrolla en el ámbito de la salud. En España actualmente se ensayan diferentes formas y estilos de realizar esta labor. El estudio realizado mediante metodología cualitativa, mediante grupos de discusión con madres participantes en diferentes “grupos de apoyo a la lactancia materna” de la provincia de Toledo, analiza desde sus puntos de vista, el funcionamiento de estos grupos y las dificultades que deben superan durante la lactancia. Así, el estudio ofrece claves que permitirán al profesional de la salud orientar su labor de promoción de la lactancia natural hoy.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2021-9020
Mirta Devidi
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