Humanities Colloquium - Michael Stolz (German Philology): Copying, emergence, and digital reproduction
| When |
Dec 15, 2014
from 12:15 PM to 01:45 PM |
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| Where | FRIAS, Albertstr. 19, Seminar Room |
| Contact Name | Anna Blattner |
| Contact Phone | 0761 203 97362 |
| Attendees |
universitätsoffen / open to university members |
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This talk combines concepts of the copying of manuscripts in the age before mechanical reproduction (as described in W. Benjamin’s famous Artwork-essay), of the emergence of non-vertical evolution (as to be found in textual ‘contamination’ and in horizontal gene transfer alike), and of the electronic reproduction of such phenomena (as presented in scholarly digital editions and phylogenetic trees). The guiding idea is that ‘copying’, ‘emergence’, and ‘(digital) reproduction’ enable variation depending on particular physical or biological forms, on contextual or environmental conditions, as well as on user habits or receptive fields. – Is it possible to develop a theory of copying and reproduction on this base?
The material of the talk will be drawn from the Parzival-Project, a critical electronic edition of an Arthurian romance, composed by the German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach shortly after 1200 and transmitted in over eighty witnesses.
