[Commlist] New book: Difference and Orientation: An Alexander Kluge Reader

*Difference and Orientation***

An Alexander Kluge Reader

*Alexander Kluge*

*Edited by Richard Langston***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/difference-and-orientation_*

Alexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's leading intellectuals 
and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of 
auteur television programming, he has also cowritten three acclaimed 
volumes of critical theory, published countless essays and numerous 
works of fiction, and continues to make films even as he expands his 
video production to the internet. Despite Kluge's five decades of work 
in philosophy, literature, television, and media politics, his 
reputation outside of the German-speaking world still largely rests on 
his films of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. *__*

With the aim of introducing Kluge's heterogeneous mind to an Anglophone 
readership, /Difference and Orientation /assembles thirty of his essays, 
speeches, glossaries, and interviews, revolving around the capacity for 
differentiation and the need for orientation toward ways out of 
catastrophic modernity. This landmark volume brings together some of 
Kluge's most fundamental statements on literature, film, pre- and 
post-cinematic media, and social theory, nearly all for the first time 
in English translation. Together, these works highlight Kluge's 
career-spanning commitment to unorthodox, essayistic thinking.

*Richard Langston*is Professor of German Literature at the University of 
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of /Visions of Violence 
/and translator of/History and Obstinacy/.


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