Tracks from the Crypt

Abstract: David Bowie's 2015 'Blackstar' has been understood by critics and fans alike to have a certain valedictory status. For them, perhaps for us, it is a 39-minute and 13-second farewell. A long goodbye. My angle is different. By situating the Bowie/Renck collaboration on "Lazarus" in the context of a meditation on the question once posed by Georg Stanitzek, "Was ist Kommunikation?" I consider the CD and the video as experiments in re-configuration. More specifically, by thinking about the distinctly cinematic iteration of the question of communication (citing here Captain's "what we have here is … failure to communicate" from 'Cool Hand Luke') I propose that mediated communication embodies the Ich/Es modality of dialogue disparaged by Martin Buber. What this invites us to consider is whether "Lazarus" in particular isn’t the generation of an audiovisual tombeau from which or out of which communication strains are to be heard. Is it "saying" farewell? Is it "saying" anything? By drawing

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
ISBN
9783957960030
Umfang
Online-Ressource, 48 S.
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Klassifikation
Öffentliche Darbietungen, Film, Rundfunk

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Lüneburg
(wer)
meson press
(wann)
2019
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wer)
SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
(wann)
2019
Urheber

DOI
10.14619/0030
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020082808110142805562
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
Letzte Aktualisierung
14.08.2025, 11:00 MESZ

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Beteiligte

  • Mowitt, John
  • meson press
  • SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository

Entstanden

  • 2019

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