#Peter Fritzsche

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Intellectualization: your favorite coping mechanism

This morning I am crawling back into bed with Peter Fritzsche's 1999 Germans into Nazis. Please add/tag your own recommendations for numbing-through-scholarship!

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Cactus at the Mar-Y-Sol festival Puerto Rico, 1972

Peter French, Carmine Appice, Werner Fritzschings, Duane Hitchings and Tim Bogert

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Der Blick. / 31.01.2021

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Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich by  Peter Fritzsche https://amzn.to/3baGxpg

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[Lemme borrow and expand from my woefully neglected Resources / Bibliography.]

Organised crime, with a slant towards the Italian mafia because it fascinates me the most:

Kelly Barksby, “Constructing criminals: the creation of identity within criminal mafias” (Keele University, 2013)

Filippo Spadafora, Origins of the Sicilian Mafia (2010)

This Rogue, Mafia Lore: Honour and Blood (2016)

Pino Arlacchi, Mafia Business: The Mafia Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 1988) *

Letizia Paoli, “Italian Organised Crime: Mafia Associations and Criminal Enterprises” in Global Crime Vol. 6, No. 1 (Routledge, 2004)

Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection (Harvard University Press, 1993)

John Dickie, Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia (Palgrave Macmillan 2004)

Henner Hess, Mafia and Mafiosi (New York University Press, 1998)

Marco Gasparini, The Mafia: History and Legend (Flammarion , 2011) *

Alexander Stille, Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic (Vintage, 1995)

Mark Bowden, Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw (Atlantic Books, 2002)

David E. Kaplan & Alec Dubro, Yakuza: Japan’s Criminal Underwold (University of California Press, 2002)

Peter B. E. Hill, The Japanese Mafia: Yakuza, Law, and the State (Oxford University Press, 2003)

Gangs:

Mark S. Fleisher, Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals (The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995)

Darrell J. Steffensmeier, Delinquent Girls: Contexts, Relationships, and Adaptation (Springer-Verlag, 2012)

Herbert C. Covey, Crips and Bloods: A guide to an American subculture (Greenwood, 2015)

Deborah Lamm Weisel, Contemporary Gangs: An Organizational Analysis (LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2002)

David Skarbek, The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System (Oxford University Press, 2014)

Ken Gelder, Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice (Routledge); The subcultures reader (with Sarah Thornton, Routledge, 1997)

M.G. Bullen, Thief in Law: A guide to Russian prison tattoos and Russian-speaking organised crime gangs (One’s Own Publishing House, 2016)

Illegalism:

Bernard Thomas, The Lives of Sailor, Thief, Anarchist, Convict Alexandre Marius Jacob (1879-1954) (Tchou Éditions, 1970)

Jean-Marc Delpech, “Parcours et Réseaux d’un Anarchiste: Alexandre Marius Jacob, 1879-1954“, (Université de Lorraine, 2006)

Richard Parry, The Bonnot Gang: The story of the French illegalists (Rebel Press, 1987)

Doug Imrie, “The illegalists” in Anarchy: a Journal Of Desire Armed (1994)

Chris Ealham, Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937 (Routledge, 2005)

Antonio Tellez, Sabaté, Guerilla Extraordinary / La Guerriglia Urbana in Spagna: Sabaté (1974)

Klaus Schönberger, VaBanque: Bankraub – Theorie, Praxis, Geschichte (Assoziation A, 2000) ["Bank Robbery: Theory, Practice, History" - a German book which AFAIK has only been translated to Italian and Greek.]

Insurgencies:

Eric Hobsbawm, Revolutionaries (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973) (see here an excerpt on "Cities and Insurrection"); Bandits (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969)

lse Biel, “Zapatista Materiality Disseminated: A Co-Construction Reconsidered” (University of New Mexico, 2012)

Coutrney Jung, The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics: Critical Liberalism and the Zapatistas (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Joshua Bloom & Waldo E. Martin Jr., Black against Empire (University of California Press, 20123) [on the Black Panther Party]

Sundiata Acoli, A Brief History of the Black Panther Party and Its Place In the Black Liberation Movement (1985)

Abel Paz, Durruti: the people armed (Black Rose, 1976) [I THINK this is the english translation of Durruti: el proletariado en armas later published as Durruti en la revolución española, which I meant]

Ralf Reinders & Ronald Fritzsch, Die Bewngung 2.Juni (1985) ["The 2 June Movement", don't know if it's translated in English.]

That's… hardly an expertly curated list, esp. the revolutionary stuff. I read my foundational texts in that department mostly by borrowing, rarely in English, and long before I had organisational skills, or Calibre. Essential topics aren't covered here. You gotta look up RAF, the Red Brigades, Carlos, so many things.

The subject is HUGE, op! Absolutely enormous. I get dizzy thinking about it.

Please recommend me reliable books, documentaries, pieces of journalism etc. that you know of about:

organized crime

semi-organized crime i.e. street gangs and the like

terrorists

guerrilla insurgencies

and similar things.

I'm very interested understanding illegitimate (i.e. not conducted by a government) organized violence and how it functions, but naturally it's hard to find good information.

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Fantastika Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, edited by Kerry Dodd, July 2020. Cover art by Sinjin Li, info and free download: fantastikajournal.com.

“Fantastika” – a term appropriated from a range of Slavonic languages by John Clute — embraces the genres of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror, but can also include Alternate History, Gothic, Steampunk, Young Adult Dystopic Fiction, or any other radically imaginative narrative space. The goal of Fantastika Journal and its annual conference is to bring together academics and independent researchers who share an interest in this diverse range of fields with the aim of opening up new dialogues, productive controversies and collaborations. We invite articles examining all mediums and disciplines which concern the Fantastika genres. This special issue is based off the fifth Fantastika conference — After Fantastika — which investigated how definitions of time are negotiated within Fantastika literature, exploring not only the conception of its potential rigidity but also how its prospective malleability offers an avenue through which orthodox systems of thought may be reconfigured. By interrogating the principal attributes of this concept alongside its centrality to human thought, this issue considers how Fantastika may offer an alternate lens through which to examine the past, present, and future of time itself.

EDITORIAL After Bowie: Apocalypse, Television and Worlds to Come – Andrew Tate

ARTICLES In the Ruins of Time: The Eerie in the Films of Jia Zhangke – Sarah Dodd The Time Machine and the Child: Imperialism, Utopianism, and H. G. Wells – Katie Stone “Turn[ing] dreams into reality”: Individual Autonomy and the Psychology of Sehnsucht in Two Time Travel Narratives by Alfred Bester – Molly Cobb Dystopian Surveillance and the Legacy of Cold War Experimentation in Joyce Carol Oates’s Hazards of Time Travel (2018) – Nicolas Stavris “THE ONLYES POWER IS NO POWER”: Disrupting Phallocentrism in the Post-Apocalyptic Space of Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker (1980) – Sarah France “Then when are we? It's like I'm trapped in a dream or a memory from a life long ago”: A Cognitive Analysis of Temporal Disorientation and Reorientation in the First Season of HBO’s Westworld – Zoe Wible Rewriting Myth and Genre Boundaries: Narrative Modalities in The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan – Alexander Popov

NON-FICTION REVIEWS Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East (2018) edited by Anindita Banerjee and Sonia Fritzsche – Review by Llew Watkins The Evolution of African Fantasy and Science Fiction (2018) edited by Francesca T. Barbini – Review by Esthie Hugo We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror (2018) by Howard David Ingham – Review by Marita Arvaniti Witchcraft the Basics (2018) by Marion Gibson – Review by Fiona Wells-Lakeland Gaming the System: Deconstructing Video Games, Game Studies, and Virtual Worlds (2018) by David J. Gunkel – Review by Charlotte Gislam Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (2018) – Review by John Sharples Children’s Literature and Imaginative Geography (2018) by Wilfrid Laurier – Review by Chris Hussey Sleeping with the Lights on: An Unsettling Story of Horror (2018) by Darryl Jones – Review by Charlotte Gough Posthumanism in Fantastic Fiction (2018) edited by Anna edited by Anna Kérchy – Review by Beáta Gubacsi Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility (2018) by Alexis Lothian – Review by Chase Ledin The Theological Turn in Contemporary Gothic Fiction (2018) by Simon Marsden – Review by Eleanor Beal Reified Life: Speculative Capital and the Ahuman Condition (2018) by Paul J. Narkunas – Review by Peter Cullen Bryan Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar: Language and Worldview in Speculative Fiction (2018) by Louise Nuttall – Review by Rahel Oppliger None of this is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer (2018) by Benjamin J. Robertson – Review by Kerry Dodd The Last Utopians: Four Late 19th Century Visionaries and their Legacy (2018) by Michael Robertson – Review by Peter J. Maurits Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2019) edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens – Review by Juliette Harrisson Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, race, and gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2018) – Review by Polly Atkin Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought: Narratives of World Politics (2018) by Adam Stock – Review by Ben Horn

CONFERENCE REPORTS Reimagining the Gothic 2018 (October 26-27, 2018) – Conference Report by Luke Turley Transitions 8 (November 10, 2018) – Conference Report by Paul Fisher Davies Looking into the Upside Down: Investigating Stranger Things – Conference Report by Rose Butler Tales of Terror (March 21-22, 2019) – Conference Report by Oliver Rendle Glitches and Ghosts (April 17, 2019) – Conference Report by Vicki Williams Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations (May, 23-24, 2019) – Conference Report by Benjamin Miller Gothic Spectacle and Spectatorship (June, 1, 2019) – Conference Report by Brontё Schiltz Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2019 (June 6, 2019) – Conference Report by Phoenix Alexander Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin: Science, Fiction and Ethics for the Anthropocene (June 18-21, 2019) – Conference Report by Heloise Thomas Folk Horror in the 21st Century (September 5-6, 2019) – Conference Report by Miranda Corcoran

FICTION REVIEWS Modern Monsters and Occult Borderlands: William Hope Hodgson. A Review of The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson (2019) – Review by Emily Alder From the Depths. A Review of From The Depths; And Other Strange Tales of the Sea (2018) – Review by Daniel Pietersen ‘Shun the Frumious Bandersnatch!’: Charlie Brooker, Free Will and MK Ultra Walk Into A Bar. A Review of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018) – Review by Shannon Rollins The Power of the Everyday Utopia: Becky Chambers’ Record of a Spaceborn Few. A Review of Record of a Spaceborn Few (2018) – Reviewed by Ruth Booth Another Green World. A Review of A Brilliant Void: A Selection of Classic Irish Science Fiction (2019) – Reviewed by Richard Howard Burn Them All? Game of Thrones Season Eight. A Review of Game of Thrones Season Eight (2019) – Reviewed by T Evans Making New Tracks in African Fantasy. A Review of Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019) – Reviewed by Kaja Franck Impossible Creations for the Gothically Minded. A Review of The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell (2018) – Reviewed by Rachel Mizsei Ward In a Broken Dream: The Home for Wayward Children Series. A Review of Down Among the Sticks and Bones (2017), Beneath the Sugar Sky (2018) and In an Absent Dream (2019) – Reviewed by Alison Baker Blackfish City: A Place Without a Map. A Review of Blackfish City (2018) – Reviewed by Lobke Minter Diné Legend Comes to Life in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning. A Review of Trail of Lightning (2018) – Reviewed by Madelyn Marie Schoonover Aquaman; or Flash Gordon of the Sea. – A Review of Aquaman (2018) – Reviewed by Stuart Spear The Tower of Parable. A Review of The Writer’s Block (2019) – Reviewed by Timothy J. Jarvis

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How Hitler Did It

This New York Times review of “Hitler’s First Hundred Days When Germans Embraced the Third Reich” by  Peter Fritzsche gives us a lot to think about.

Fritzsche’s book minutely describes this nationwide slide from credulous delusion to a willful embrace of catastrophe. Just as pernicious as the lies the Germans were told were the lies they insisted on telling themselves.

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CFP for the relaunch of the World Science Fiction Studies book series (Peter Lang)

CFP for the relaunch of the World Science Fiction Studies book series (Peter Lang)

World Science Fiction Studies Edited By Sonja Fritzsche and Gerry Canavan https://www.peterlang.com/view/serial/WSFS

World Science Fiction Studies understands science fiction to be an inherently global phenomenon. Proposals are invited for monographs and edited collections that celebrate the tremendous reach of a genre that continues to be interpreted and transformed by a variety of cultures and…

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A related program emerged from the mental hygiene movement. In the war’s aftermath, specialists in psychiatry, biology, and anthropology undertook large-scale research projects intended to gather data about the health of the German population. The ambition of figures like Emil Kraepelin to make psychiatric science handmaiden to social policy illustrates what Michel Foucault has described as the ascendance of psychiatric power in the modern era. In Germany, the fields of psychiatry and mental hygiene had close ties to racial hygiene, whose triumph under the Nazis is identified by Peter Fritzsche as marking a shift from conventional forms of policing focused on “law and order” to a demographic and biomedical approach dominated by a new class of “ethnocrats.” But as Edward Ross Dickinson has argued, the bio-political obsessions and strategies of the interwar era encompassed many different tendencies, only some of which could be identified with National Socialism. Within the broad terrain staked out by the human sciences, eugenicists of many political persuasions coexisted, and prior to 1933 the field of mental hygiene included both Jewish sexologists and proto-Nazi race hygienists.

Andreas Killen, Homo Cinematicus

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"How Germans Reconciled Themselves to Defeat After World War II" by BY PETER FRITZSCHE via NYT Books https://ift.tt/3GmlmR6

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If you're trying to make sense of the Capitol riot, read these books

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If you're trying to make sense of the Capitol riot, read these books

While seeing Confederate and Trump 2020 flags draped all over the Capitol was a shocking sight for some, others were not surprised.

“It was simply the culmination of the past four years under Trump’s presidency,” said librarian Djaz Zulida.

Zulida is a job information resource librarian for the Brooklyn Public Library system. Soon after the riot, the library set out to compile books that would help put this insurrection into perspective.

“While a book list is not the end all, be all as far as resources, this felt like a place where we could begin, a place where we could encourage a conversation, and to filter out some of the noise and give people a little bit of a framework, focusing on a number of different issues,” Zulida said.

Zulida combed through the library’s resources and learned that the library could use more books that discuss the 25th Amendment, which lays out a process for orderly transition of power in the case of death, disability, or resignation of the President. They included “Birch Bayh: Making a Difference,” a book about the man that authored the amendment.

“I assumed, of course, that the amendments are written by politicians,” Zulida said. “But I had no idea that there was one person so specifically, wrapped up in the details of putting together the language and the idea and turning that into a constitutional amendment.”

This is the list of more 30 books they compiled and a description of the book’s relevance to the subject.

“Stupid Wars: A Citizen’s Guide to Botched Putsches, Failed Coups, Inane Invasions, and Ridiculous Revolutions” by Ed Strosser and Michael Prince

A humorous look at epic fails in historical upheavals, putsches, and coups. Looking through a sardonic lens can help us process events that were quite serious and devastating.

“How to Get Rid of a President: History’s Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives” by David Priess

From the calumny and chaos of John Tyler’s presidency to Andrew Johnson’s drunken swearing-in, the conduct of several Presidents have been less-than stellar.

“Will He Go?: Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020” by Lawrence Douglas

This book by legal scholar Lawrence Douglas, published in May 2020, addresses what turned out to be the very real fear of a less-than-peaceful transition of power by the 45th president.

“Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump” by David A. Neiwert

This 2017 book reports on the beliefs and conspiracy theories of the so-called ‘alt-right,’ offshoot of conservatism that mix racism, white nationalism, anti-Semitism and populism.

“We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump — A Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution“ by Gerald F. Seib

The trajectory of the modern conservative movement and how it evolved into a populist movement that Trump rode to power, written by the executive editor of the Wall Street Journal.

“American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution” by A. Roger Ekrich

A detailed look at political crisis and national identity in the early years of the United States.

“The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents” by Corey Brettschneider

A detailed primer on the important parts of constitutional law dealing with the office of President by a professor of political science at Brown University who teaches constitutional law and politics,

“American Government 101: From the Continental Congress to the Iowa Caucus, Everything You Need to Know About US Politics” by Kathleen Sears

A wide-ranging primer on the actual workings of US government and politics.

“Burning the Reichstag” by Benjamin Carter Hett

This book examines the many accounts of the German Reichstag fire of 1933 that helped solidify Adolf Hitler’s power in Germany. It disputes claims that the fire was perpetrated by one individual as it investigates Nazi involvement as well as looking at how the fire was used to boost the Nazi Party and discredit the Communist Party.

“Birch Bayh: Making a Difference” by Robert Blaemire

A three-term Indiana senator, Bayh helped write the 25th Amendment on presidential disability and succession and the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18. He is the only non-Founding Father to author two constitutional amendments.

“Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich” by Peter Fritzsche

Documents the suppression of dissent and dissenters and the ascendance of Nazi power that turned Germany from a divided republic into a one-party dictatorship.

“Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics” by Lawrence O’Donnell

The MSNBC host details the political upheaval, assassinations, and dirty tricks in the 1968 elections.

“Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today” by Cynthia Levinson and Sanford Levinson

From gerrymandering to presidential succession, a husband-and-wife team break down some important pieces of the Constitution, examines its flaws and offer some potential solutions.

“A Most Wicked Conspiracy: The Last Great Swindle of the Gilded Age” by Paul Starobin

An examination of the political corruption and greed of party bosses, elected officials and robber barons in America at the turn of the 20th century.

“Surviving Autocracy” by Masha Gessen

Defining autocracy and how close Americans came to autocratic rule during the Trump presidency in informative, concise chapters. The book stems from an essay the author wrote for the New York Review of Books.

“Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump’s War on the World’s Most Powerful Office” by Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes

The authors, the executive editor and editor-in-chief of the Lawfare blog, detail Trump’s rejection of political norms and expectations for presidential behavior.

“The Fixers: The Bottom-Feeders, Crooked Lawyers, Gossipmongers, and Porn Stars Who Created the 45th President” by Joe Palazzolo and Michael Rothfeld

Two Wall Street Journal reporters document questionable actions by Trump before and during his presidency.

“If This Be Treason: The American Rogues and Rebels Who Walked the Line Between Dissent and Betrayal” by Jeremy Duda

Journalist Jeremy Duda examines the line between dissent and treason by looking at several historical moments in which Americans were accused of treason but others found their acts worthy of praise.

“American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery” by Craig Unger

This book explores the kompromat, or compromising information, that Russia may have amassed on major political figures and how Russia may have attempted to target Donald Trump when he was a New York businessman.

“Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House” by Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz

The story of Spiro T. Agnew, Nixon’s vice president, and the bribery and extortion ring he ran while in office.

“The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation” by Brenda Wineapple

A recounting of President Andrew Johnson’s abuse of executive orders that led to him becoming the first US president to be impeached.

“The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President” by Jill Wine-Banks

The Watergate scandal and Nixon impeachment as told by Jill Wine-Banks, a trial lawyer on the special prosecutor’s Watergate task force.

“An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson” by Andro Linklater

Gen. James Wilkinson was charismatic and complicated soldier who fought for the United States in its earliest days yet repeatedly acted against the country and even spied on it.

“Night of Camp David” by Fletcher Knebel

A 1965 novel about an American president coming unhinged and ranting about conspiracies, it was republished in 2018.

“Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide” by Cass R. Sunstein

An accessible primer on impeachment’s past, present, and future.

“The Case for Impeaching Trump” by Elizabeth Holtzman

Attorney, politician, and author Elizabeth Holtzman lays out the requirements for an impeachment and the necessity of one.

“How Did We Get Here?: from Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump“ by Robert Dallek

A historian looks at the personalities and politics from the early 20th century until now and how we’ve arrived in our current political milieu.

“The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America’s Best -— and Worst -— Chief Executives”

A survey of leading historians and presidential biographers on the best and worst of America’s presidents.

“Richard Nixon: The Life” by John A. Farrell

The life and political career of Richard Nixon, the 37th President who resigned before he could be impeached over the Watergate scandal. He remains the only president ever to resign the office.

“The Trial of Adolf Hitler” by David King

The book recounts the arrest, trial, and imprisonment of Adolf Hitler and others for treason after a failed coup attempt in Germany that became known as the Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler turned the 1924 trial into a launching pad for himself and the Nazi Party.

“It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis, with an introduction by Michael Meyer and a new afterword by Gary Scharnhorst

Lewis’s 1935 novel about fascist presidential candidate Berzelius Windrip and how a US president turns into a dictator.

“1876” by Gore Vidal

Vidal’s historical novel is written in the form of a journal detailing the life of character Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler in the 1870s with a focus on the disputed presidential election of 1876.

“Rutherford B. Hayes” by Trefousse L. Hans

A historian chronicles the disputed 1876 election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden.

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Der Hase im Herbst. / 10.11.2019

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Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East (World Science Fiction Studies), edited by Anindita Banerjee and Sonja Fritzsche, Peter Lang Ltd, 2018. Info: peterlang.com.

The first collection of its kind, this anthology documents a radically different geography and history of science fiction in the world. Western, specifically Anglo-American, SF is not the only hub of the global trade of alternative realities and futures. Rather it is but only one of several competing flows and circuits of distribution, contacts, influence, translation, adaptation, and collaboration, across space and time. The essays collected here focus on arguably the biggest and most influential of those competing hubs: the socialist world and its extensive cultural networks across the global South and East. Written by scholars from around the world, the chapters address the «other» transatlantic of the Caribbean, Latin America, African America, and the Soviet Union; the surprising multitude of transnational networks behind the Iron Curtain; and asymptotic and subterranean discourses across Russia, India, and China. Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East is intended for scholars, students, and fans interested in science fiction, popular culture, comparative literature, film studies, postcolonialism, techno-science, translation studies, and the literature and cultures of China, Cuba, Germany, India, Mexico, Poland, and Russia.

Contents: Anindita Banerjee – T/Racing Revolution between Red October and the Black Atlantic Miguel García – Eugenia: Engineering New Citizens in Mexico’s Laboratory of Socialism Antonio Cordoba – Between Moscow and Santa Clara: The Soviet-Cuban Imaginary in Agustín de Rojas’ Espiral (1980) Carl Gelderloos – Alien Evolution and Dialectical Materialism in Eastern European Science Fiction Sonja Fritzsche – A Natural and Artificial Homeland: East German Science Fiction Film Responds to Kubrick and Tarkovsky Sibelan Forrester – Naming the Future in Translations of Russian and East European Science Fiction Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee – Ghana-da in Bandung: Race, Science, and Non-Alignment in Premendra Mitra’s Fiction Jinyi Chu – The Afterlife of the Post-Apocalypse: Dmitry Glukhovsky in China

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Heute vor 44 Jahren

"An einen schönen Donnerstag Es hatte grad getaut Da wurde Peter Lorenz Aus Zehlendorf geklaut..."

Die Lorenzentführung Gespräche über Haschrebellen, Lorenzentführung, Knast Ralf Reinders/Ronald Fritzsch

https://www.nadir.org/nadir/archiv/PolitischeStroemungen/Stadtguerilla+RAF/2_juni/2_juni.pdf 

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The most popular contemporary history of the postwar period, H. G. Wells’s The Outline of History (1920), left no doubt that Europe had entered a dramatically new time zone. He forecast a future conflict that would leave the continent ravaged by air attacks, making the “bombing of those “‘prentice days,” 1914–18, look like mere “child’s play.” It is often forgotten that the fear of massive air attack rooted itself as deeply among Europeans in the 1920s and 1930s as did the terror of all-out nuclear war during the Cold War.

Peter Fritzsche and Jochen Hellbeck, “The New Man in Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany,” in Geyer and Fitzpatrick eds., Beyond Totalitarianism (2009), 310.