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A Life in Books: An Interview with Author-Designer Warren Lehrer
Here is the transcription of an extended conversation between multimedia artist and author Warren Lehrer and Brian Davis (a recent contemporary literature and poetics PhD grad from University of Maryland) that began in February at Lehrer’s studio in Queens, NY soon after the opening of the exhibition “Warren Lehrer: Books, Animation, Performance, Collaboration” at the Center for Book Arts in Manhattan. They discuss Lehrer’s recent book, Five Oceans in a Teaspoon (), a collection of visual poems written by Dennis J Bernstein, visualized by Lehrer, as well as Lehrer’s long running commitments to visual literature and collaborative art going back to the early s. In addition to discussing several of Lehrer’s bookish projects, including his novel A Life in Books (), they discuss the different writing and printing technologies Lehrer has worked with and in
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Hans Asperger, National Socialism, and “race hygiene” in Nazi-era Vienna
Abstract
Background
Hans Asperger (–) first designated a group of children with distinct psychological characteristics as ‘autistic psychopaths’ in , several years before Leo Kanner’s famous paper on autism. In , Asperger published a comprehensive study on the topic (submitted to Vienna University in as his postdoctoral thesis), which would only find international acknowledgement in the s. From then on, the eponym ‘Asperger’s syndrome’ increasingly gained currency in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the conceptualization of the condition. At the time, the fact that Asperger had spent pivotal years of his career in Nazi Vienna caused some controversy regarding his potential ties to National Socialism and its race hygiene policies. Documentary evidence was scarce, however, and over time a narrative of Asperger as an active opponent of National Socialism took hold. The main goal of this paper is t
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Dietrich Eckart
19/20th-century German poet, playwright, journalist, and far-right political activist
Dietrich Eckart (German:[ˈɛkaʁt]; 23 March – 26 månad ) was a German völkisch poet, playwright, reporter, publicist, and political activist who was one of the founders of the German Workers' Party, the precursor of the Nazi Party. Eckart was a key influence on Adolf Hitler in the early years of the Party, the original publisher of the party newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter ("Folkist Observer"), and the lyricist of the first party anthem, "Sturmlied" ("Storming Song"). He was a participant in the failed Beer ingångsrum Putsch in and died on 26 December of that year, shortly after his release from Landsberg Prison, of a heart attack.
Eckart was elevated to the status of a major thinker upon the establishment of Nazi Germany in He was acknowledged bygd Hitler to be the spiritual co-founder of Nazism and "a guiding light of the early National Socialist movement."