[for Donna Stonecipher]
Over two weeks in June, I traveled to eight German cities—Frankfurt, Goslar, Kassel, Munich, Nuremberg (including Erlangen and Fürth), Jena, Leipzig and Berlin—attended the opening of documenta 13; saw many related exhibitions and attended lectures and readings; presented a seminar at the University of Erlangen; bicycled, walked, and rode public transportation; and scanned for books. The list below documents the extent of my interests on what ended up as a research trip focusing on critical theory, poetics, and exhibitions. I will return in September for a second look at documenta, and to attend Carla Harryman’s closing keynote lecture, a re-presentation in poetic/musical form of Adorno’s 1959 lecture on New Music at documenta 2.
Critical theory
Adorno, Theodor W. Philosophische Elemente einer Theorie der Gesellschaft (1964). Ed. Tobias ten Brink and Marc Phillip Noguera. Nachgelassene Schriften, Vorlesungen, vol. 12. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2008. [Purchased at Buchladen zur schwankenden Weltkugel, Kastanienallee, Berlin]
Harman, Graham. The Third Table/Der Dritte Tisch. 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, no. 85. Ostfildern, Germ.: Hatje Cantz, 2012. [documenta, Kassel]
Hawel, Marcus, and Moritz Blanke, eds. Kritische Theorie: Der Krise. Berlin: Karl Dietz, 2012. [Buchladen zur schwankenden Weltkugel]
Mann, Thomas, & Theodor W. Adorno. An Exchange/Ein Austausch. 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, no. 50. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012. [documenta]
Mitscherlich, Alexander, ed. Das beschädigte Leben: Diagnose und Therapie in einer Welt unabsehbar Veränderungen. Grenzach/Baden, Germ.: Hoffman-La Roche, 1969. [Arkonaplatz, Prenzlauerberg, Berlin]
Poetry and poetics
Krutschonych, Alexei (Alexei Kruchyonik). Phonetik des Theaters (1925). Ed. Valeri Scherstjanoi. Leipzig: Reinecke & Voß, 2011. [Lettrétage, Methfesselstraße, Berlin]
Reinecke, Bertram. Sleutel voor de hoogduitsche Spraakkunst, ed. Ulf Stolterfoht. Leipzig, Berlin, and Solothurn: roughbook, 2012. [Lettrétage]
