Günther Anders’s Epitaph for Aikichi Kuboyama

Authors

Babette Babich, Fordham UniversityFollow

Comments

Babette Babich, "Günther Anders’s Epitaph for Aikichi Kuboyama," The Journal of Continental Philosophy, Volume 2, Issue 1 (2021): 141-158

Disciplines

Aesthetics | Composition | Continental Philosophy | Ethics and Political Philosophy | Musicology | Philosophy

Abstract

Günther Anders’s poem Du kleiner Fischerman is read here as a text contribution to the irruption that is violence and its enduring (omnipresent) aftermath. The essay includes a discussion of transmedial expression, including dramatization, or television and social media, text and subtext, as well as the inspiration of Anders’s poem as a work of art continuing in our times: the ongoing exclusion(s) of certain names and certain thinkers as of certain musical modes, including electronic musical works, as of voices and of collective memory, or oblivion. Reading Raymond Williams along with Anders and Adorno on television updated in today’s era of screen-being, this essay reads the challenges of on-line music magazines, Leonard Cohen and k.d.lang, between modes of memorialization, including a reading of Anders’s poetic memorial on the violence of Walter Benjamin’s death to conclude with Ivan Illich on the ongoing expropriation of death (and health) today.

Recommended Citation

Babich, Babette, "Günther Anders’s Epitaph for Aikichi Kuboyama" (2021). Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections. 103.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/phil_babich/103