Sarah Milne Pourciau

Journal Article Germanic Review · January 1, 2024 Kafka’s drawing style, like his writing one, is abstemious in the extreme; the question is how to characterize his criterion of subtraction. Studying the diary drawings alongside the text in which they are embedded points toward a general dynamic of deacti ... Full text Cite

The Unpastoral: Walter Ruttmann and the Politics of Symphonic Form

Journal Article Modernism - Modernity · January 1, 2024 The musical analogy that underpins Walter Ruttmann’s Weimar-era city film Berlin. Die Sinfonie der Großstadt has generally been understood as a cipher for his uncritical, quietist political perspective—the idea being that Ruttmann aestheticizes rather than ... Full text Cite

Sarah Milne Pourciau

Selected Publications

“The Right Despair”: Kafka’s Nihilist Technique

The Unpastoral: Walter Ruttmann and the Politics of Symphonic Form

On the Digital Ocean

Thinking with Adorno: The Uncoercive Gaze

A/logos: An Anomalous Episode in the History of Number

God’s Broken Medium: On Genre and Geschichtsphilosophie in Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron

The Writing of Spirit Soul, System, and the Roots of Language Science

The Miracle of the Comic: Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Transfiguration of Modern Drama

Passing Through Infinity: Kleist’s Marionettentheater, Kantian Metaphor, and the Spherical Geometry of Grace

Heidegger’s Hyphen/Heideggers Bindestrich

Infernal Poetics: Peter Weiss and the Problem of Postwar Authorship

Ambiguity Intervenes: The Strategy of Equivocation in Adorno's "Der Essay als Form"

Istanbul, 1945: Erich Auerbachs Mimesis an der Grenze des europäischen Daseins

Istanbul, 1945 Erich Auerbach's Philology of Extremity

Disarming the Double: Kant in Defense of Philosophy (1766)

Bodily Negation: Carl Schmitt on the Meaning of Meaning