Department of Germanic Studies
Indiana University Bloomington
Associate Professor of German Studies
"Out of All Scale: Indexicality and the Magnitude of the Present" The project hypothesizes that a sense of presence is effectuated by indexical signs--and thus is not a matter of perception by the five senses. An index can link us to presences of supra-sensual scale, for example, to communism or the free-market economy, things that otherwise exceed the boundaries of a normal perception.
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The Skin of the System: On Germany’s Socialist Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. 368 pages.
Sozialismus; Philosophie und Sozialtheorie; Semiotik (Fragen der Evidenz und Indexikalität);