Christian Kracht's Aesthetics

1. introduction.- 2. part I. Microaesthetics.- 3. Christian Kracht's microaesthetics.- 4. DJ Bobo in Ulan Bataar. A way out of the whole in Christian Kracht's aesthetics?.- 5. "... a continuing always repeated disturbance". Christian Kracht with Max Bense and Friedrich Schlegel -Response to the contributions of Christoph Kleinschmidt and Maria Kuberg.-6. Part II. Aesthetics of the literary world.- 7. Aesthetics of paratexts in Christian Kracht. Quotations, cover designs, author figures.- 8. "In Search of a Character". Christian Kracht's self-staging practices in the authorial photograph.- 9. The image given and the image taken - Responding to the contributions by Christine Riniker and Ronald Röttel.- 10. Part III. Aisthesis - Body and Mind.- 11. Surface aesthetics. The Barbour jacket as a second skin in Christian Kracht's novel Faserland.- 12. "Nothing is meaningless." On the Relationship between Spirituality and Postmodernism in the Novels of Christian Kracht.- 13. No Stable Position in Sight - Responding to the Contributions of Julia Bertschik and Robert Hermann.- 14. Part IV. Aesthetic Mode and Historical Truth.- 15. Mediologies of the Counterfactual in Christian Kracht's I Will Be Here in Sunshine and in Shadow.- 16. Of Faded Photographs and Rattling Projectors. On the Anti-Documentary Aesthetic in Christian Krachts Imperium.- 17. Aesthetic Mode and Historical Truth - Responding to the Contributions of Caspar Battegay and Christoph Schmitz.- 18. Part V. Exploration of Alternative Aesthetics.- 19. Of all the novels, I do appreciate the most the interesting ones. Aesthetics of the reserved and poetics of the interesting in Christian Kracht's Die Toten.- 20. 'In Praise of the Shadow'. Christian Kracht's The Dead as a 'Japanese Aesthetic'.- 21. "[T]he Scaffolding of the Letter H" - Responding to the Contributions of Marvin Baudisch and Azusa Takata.- 22. Part VI. Literary Aesthetics.- 23. "Barbourpapa". A source-philological investigation into the textual genesisof Faserland.- 24. Self-reference and its disorders. On a socio-political dimension of Christian Kracht's poetics and his novel Imperium (2012).- 25. Literary aesthetics and the hermeneutics of the subject: subjectivation in Christian Kracht - Responding to the contributions of Philip Ajouri and Matthias N. Lorenz.- 26. Part VII. After the Poetics Lecture.- 27. Variations on an Unavailable Text. Christian Kracht's Frankfurt Poetics Lectures.- 28. Ineffable. Hermeneutics, Poetics and Charlie Chaplin in Christian Kracht.- 29. Christian Kracht's Postmodern Parodies.