On April 8, 1945, several American bomber squadrons were informed that their German targets were temporarily unavailable due to cloud cover. As it was too late to turn back, the assembled ordnance of more than two hundred bombers was diverted to nearby Halberstadt. A midsized cathedral town of no pa[...]
In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed "December", a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept photographs for the darkest month of the year. In s[...]
If Marx's opus Capital provided the foundational account of the forces of production in all of their objective, machine formats, what happens when the concepts of political economy are applied not to dead labor, but to its living counterpart, the human subject? The result is Alexander Kluge and Oska[...]
Alexander Kluge is best known as a founding member of the New German Cinema. His work, however, spans a diverse range of fields and, over the last fifty years, he has been active as a filmmaker, writer and television producer. This book - the first of its kind in English - comprises a wide selection[...]
Vad är känslornas 18:e brumarie? Vad är kärlekens bonapartist? Vem tillhör våra känslor? Det är några av de frågor som Alexander Kluge ställer och ibland åtminstone indirekt besvarar i den CHRONIK DER GEFÜHLE som markerar hans återkomst till litteraturen efter ett par decenniers[...]