General
Resources
Pauline Bellmann: The Importance of Afro-American Narrative in Popular Media
Kira Wagner: Empathy in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Kathrin Kunsch: From Underground to Mainstream: The Evolution of Hip Hop and ts Influence on Black American Youth Culture from the Early Seventies to 2018.
Julia Radowski, "Internet Explorer. A Critical Analysis of the Internet Culture among Millennials in North America.“
Emily Jaruschewski, Criminals in the United States: The Obsession with Serial Killers in Pop-Culture
Josipa Wolbers, "Jazz against the Empire. Music as the Means of Struggle against Racism."
Jonas Noack, " 'In the midst of life we are in death' - As I Lay Dying, The Sound and The Fury and the presence of death in William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County."
Monika Gallus, ""Welcome to Harlem - The Transition of African Americans during the Harlem
Renaissance"
Yasmine Günther, "Hidden Heroes - The Black Women Behind the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement.”
Sarah Greifeld, "The Evolution of the Disney Princesses."
Olivia Dudek, "21st Century Panopticism: The Hunger Games, Surveillance and Digitalization."
Jerome Hemmersbach
Franziska von Puttkamer
Viktoria Schuller
Steffi Kaiser
Julia Hensel
The Doubter
B. Brecht (transl. Lee Baxendall, Tom Clark)
Whenever we seemed
To have found the
answer to a question
One of us untied the string of the old
rolled-up
Chinese canvas on the wall, so that it would unravel
and
Reveal to us the man on the bench who
Doubted so much.
I,
he said to us
Am the doubter. I am doubtful whether
The work
was well done that devoured your days.
Whether what you said would
still have value for anyone if it were less well said.
Whether you
did say it well instead of just relying on its truthfulness.
Whether
it is not ambiguous; each possible misunderstanding
Is your
responsibility. Or it can be unambiguous
And take the
contradictions out of things; is it too unambiguous?
If so, what
you say is useless. Your thing has no life in it.
Are you truly in
the stream of happening? Do you accept
All that becomes? Are YOU
becoming? Who are you? To whom
Do you speak? Who finds what you
say useful? And, by the way:
Is it sobering? Can it be read in the
morning?
Is it also linked to what is already there? Are the
sentences that were
Spoken before you made use of, or at least
refuted? Is everything verifiable?
By experience? By which?
But above all,
Always above all else: how does one act
If one
believes what you say? Above all: how does one act?
Reflectively,
curiously, we studied the doubting
Blue man on the canvas, looked
at each other and
Started all over.