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capitalism, scHizopHrenia, and #Vanlife
individual, biologically based quests (for the father of her baby
and his biological father) in such a way that can transcend the
individuation capitalism has proven so capable of exploiting.
To claim, therefore, that Weingart ner’s films have “Bergfilm”
or “Heimatfilm” components simply because they take place in
the mountains or the forest diverts attention from the structural
purpose that the nature settings in his films serve. The white
noise of Weingart ner’s first feature (Das weiße Rauschen), which
ends with a long take of the protagonist staring out at break-
ing waves, could not be more different than Der weiße Rausch
[The White Ecstasy, 1931], which Riefenstahl is depicted deriving
from skiing exploits on death-defyingly high craggy slopes. It is
not snowy mountain peaks such as those in what was already
then the famous ski resort of Sankt Anton am Arlberg, where
Der weiße Rausch was filmed, that feature in The Edukators,
but rather a 2.0 version of Fanck’s alpine hut: a cozy vacation
cabin on a verdant Tirolean hillside northeast of Innsbruck.
More specifically, it is near Jenbach overlooking Tirol’s largest
lake, the Achensee, which the Tirolean Tourist Board noted is
“lovingly dubbed ‘Fiord of the Alps,’” when they hired Daniel
Brühl to promote it over a decade after the film was shot there
(“Set Jetting: Achensee Lake Area Starring Daniel Brühl in ‘The
Edukators’” 2017). The mountains are not hell for Weingart ner,
but rather something that can still provide a bulwark against
hell while at the same time needing protection from the growing
tourist industry and the Airbnb-ification of accommodation.
The question of “Heimat” is more complicated. Since it
emerged as a modern concept in the late eighteenth century “as
‘a feminized space of identity and origin’” (Eigler and Kugele
2012, 7), understandings have tended to shift generationally
and to gain a welcome critical edge in the process, at least since
the 1980s, leading to its having lost “much of its cringe factor
for Germans” (Ludewig 2014, 435). The concept’s “rich set of
cultural and ideological connotations that combine notions of
belonging and identity with affective attachment to a specific
place or region” (Eigler 2012, 27) are now “more likely to ques-
tion what Heimat could be than to provide answers or to define
Siting Futurity
The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna
- Titel
- Siting Futurity
- Untertitel
- The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna
- Autor
- Susan Ingram
- Verlag
- punctumbooks
- Ort
- New York
- Datum
- 2021
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-1-953035-48-6
- Abmessungen
- 12.6 x 20.2 cm
- Seiten
- 224
- Schlagwörter
- activism, Austria, contemporary art, contemporary theater, protest culture, radicalism, social protest, Vienna
- Kategorie
- Geographie, Land und Leute
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface 11
- Introduction 19
- 1. (Re)Forming Vienna’s Culture of Resistance: The Proletenpassions @ #Arena 39
- 2. Converting Kebab and Currency into Community on Planet #Ottakring 57
- 3. Lazarus’s Necropolitical Afterlife at Vienna’s #Volkstheater 81
- 4. Hardly Homemad(e): #Schlingensief’s Container 101
- 5. From Grand Hotels to Tiny Treasures: Wes Anderson and the Ruin Porn Worlds of Yesterday 119
- 6. Capitalism, Schizophrenia, and #Vanlife: The Alpine Edukation of Hans Weingarter 143
- 7. #Hallstatt: Welcome to Jurassic World 161
- Bibliography 189
- Filmography 215