Remnants of Listening, Phonography, Polyphony

Acoustic Dispositives of Social Criticism in Kathrin Röggla’s Prose Works

Abstract

Kathrin Röggla’s artistic production may be understood as a cross-media oeuvre in which a critical portrayal of current society blurs the line between fact and fiction. Rosa Coppola examines Röggla’s intermedial strategies of staging based in Hubert Fichte’s interviewing method. Coppola focuses on the concept of the 'remnant of listening' – a reworking of Freud’s concept of the 'remnant of the day' – and analyses Röggla’s re-staging of orality in two prose texts.