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Marc Keller

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Literaturwissenschaftler • Sterbehilfe in Literatur und Film • Postdoc @assistedlab.bsky.social • www.assistedlab.ch • he/him

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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 7d

Mir wäre die Politik von Künstler:innen auch egal, solange sie sie nicht in alle Megaphone brüllen, sondern für sich behalten. In dem Moment, wo ein Künstler seinen Status nutzt, um außerkünstlerische Meinungen zu verbreiten, verstößt er gegen die Autonomie, nicht die Rezipient:innen.

Father John Müsli @iamaghostnow.bsky.social · 8d

UGH!

“It doesn’t bother me if someone wears a For Britain badge [Morrissey] or is an anti-semite or whatever and they’re making extraordinary music."

Nick Cave says he is "neither on the left nor on the right" and "finding both sides indefensible and unrecognisable"

Nick Cave has shared insight on his political outlook, and said that he is "neither on the left nor on the right” as he finds both sides “unrecognisable”.

Marc Keller @marcakeller.bsky.social · 19d

Oh, sehr schön! Bin sehr dankbar für solche Hinweise.

Marc Keller @marcakeller.bsky.social · 21d

Oh vielen lieben Dank, das hätte ich tatsächlich nicht mitbekommen.

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Edward de Vere 🇬🇱 @eddevere.bsky.social · Sep 7

#Sterbehilfe

Und ich dachte, ich sei mit meinem Unbehagen am so einhellig begrüßten Glattauer-Interview allein. religion.orf.at/stories/3231...

Suizid und die Frage der Medienethik

Der diese Woche medial publik gewordene assistierte Suizid des Autors, früheren Journalisten und Lehrers Nikolaus Glattauer hat einige ethische und auch medienethische Fragen aufgeworfen. Die Philosop...

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WOZ @woz.ch · 25d

Nicht zu sterben, muss man sich zuerst einmal leisten können: Wie die zunehmende Normalisierung der #Sterbehilfe gewisse Menschen in Gefahr bringt.

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Ethik: Selbstbestimmt bis zuletzt – im Sterben wie im Leben

In der Debatte um Sterbehilfe geht es meist um Autonomie und Freiheit. Doch was ist mit jenen, die im Leben nicht genug Unterstützung für ein lebenswertes Dasein erhalten?

Marc Keller @marcakeller.bsky.social · 28d

Assisted Lab @assistedlab.bsky.social · 28d

Based on Marc's analysis of the film Life After, by Reid Davenport, which uses the story of Elizabeth Bouvia to show how decisions around assisted death are complicated by ableism & a lack of access to care for people with disabilities

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Marc Keller @marcakeller.bsky.social · 28d

Das freut mich wirklich sehr, vielen lieben Dank! Eines der zentralen Anliegen unseres Forschungsprojekts besteht tatsächlich darin, zur Differenzierung und Nuancierung eines zumeist sehr polarisierten Schwarz-Weiss-Diskurses beizutragen. Schön zu hören, dass der Artikel dies transportieren konnte!

Marc Keller @marcakeller.bsky.social · 28d

Tausend Dank für das sehr schöne Feedback! 🫶🏻

Marc Keller @marcakeller.bsky.social · 28d

Vielen herzlichen Dank, liebe Lin😊

Marc Keller @marcakeller.bsky.social · 28d

Vielen lieben Dank euch dreien, das freut mich wirklich riesig!

Marc Keller @marcakeller.bsky.social · 28d

Unter dem Banner der Autonomie wächst die Forderung nach Sterbehilfe für Menschen, die nicht schwerkrank sind. Zwei Dokumentarfilme zeigen die Kehrseite: Für Menschen mit Behinderung ist sie mitunter kein Ausdruck von Wahlfreiheit, sondern Folge fehlender Unterstützung. Mein Text dazu in der @woz.ch

Ethik: Selbstbestimmt bis zuletzt – im Sterben wie im Leben

In der Debatte um Sterbehilfe geht es meist um Autonomie und Freiheit. Doch was ist mit jenen, die im Leben nicht genug Unterstützung für ein lebenswertes Dasein erhalten?

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Assisted Lab @assistedlab.bsky.social · Aug 14

The assisted suicide regime in Switzerland is often seen as model. This book, 'Die Glückssucherin’, by Margrit Schäppi and Matthias Ackeret is at times sharply critical of Swiss assisted suicide practices.

Analysis by @marcakeller.bsky.social

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'Die Glückssucherin. Warum Margrit Schäppi einen Lebensratgeber schrieb und trotzdem den Freitod wählte' by Margrit Schäppi and Matthias Ackeret

Before publication, Margrit Schäppi took her life with the aid of a Swiss assisted suicide organisation.

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Rosen de Almeida @errrferrr.bsky.social · Aug 2

wer eugenik sagt muss auch forschung therapien versorgung > sterbehilfe sagen

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Assisted Lab @assistedlab.bsky.social · Jul 14

Interested in summer reading about assisted dying? See these books & new analyses by Assisted Lab 🧵

In Dutch 'Winter in Gloster Huis' by Vonne van der Meer, a novel in the Netherlands, discussing completed life & existential suffering. 1/4

By Wouter Schrover 👇

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'Winter in Gloster Huis' by Vonne van der Meer

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Assisted Lab @assistedlab.bsky.social · Jun 24

Assisted Lab is hiring - please share widely!

We are inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position (100%) as part of the ERC/SERI Assisted Lab team at University of St. Gallen, starting September 2025.

More information here 👇

jobs.unisg.ch/offene-stell...

HSG: PhD Position in Medical / Legal Humanities / Cultural Studies (m/f/d)

We welcome applicants with a strong academic background in law, legal humanities, socio-legal studies, film studies, media studies, cultural studies, sociology, comparative literature, or a related di...

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kateboss5000.bsky.social @kateboss5000.bsky.social · Jun 24

Dass alte Menschen aufgrund von Armut ihr Leben nicht mehr für lebenswürdig halten, passiert auch in Deutschland. Und Einsamkeit als Faktor? Allein die Studie von Betroffenen zeigt, dass jede zehnte Person mit Bürgergeld sich gesellschaftlich nicht zugehörig fühlt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck_t...

BPK: Studie zu zwei Jahren Bürgergeld aus Sicht der Betroffenen | 23.06.25

YouTube video by phoenix

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kateboss5000.bsky.social @kateboss5000.bsky.social · Jun 24

Dieser Film ist traurig und kostenlos bei arte zu sehen.
CN Sterbehilfe. Menschen in Japan wird angeboten, Sterbehilfe in Anspruch zu nehmen, um einer Überalterung und den damit wirtschaftlichen Folgen entgegen zu wirken. #filmtipp
www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Plan 75 - Film in voller Länge | ARTE

Um der Überalterung der japanischen Gesellschaft entgegenzuwirken, wird der "Plan 75" eingeführt: Menschen ab 75 Jahren erhalten ein "Recht auf Sterbehilfe". Die 78-jährige Michi überlegt, an dem Prog...

Marc Keller @marcakeller.bsky.social · Jun 24

How do stories shape legal debates and law-making on assisted dying? We’re hiring a PhD researcher to explore this question in an interdisciplinary project. Ideal candidates have a background in law, socio-legal studies, cultural/media studies, sociology, comparative literature, or related fields.

HSG: PhD Position in Medical / Legal Humanities / Cultural Studies (m/f/d)

We welcome applicants with a strong academic background in law, legal humanities, socio-legal studies, film studies, media studies, cultural studies, sociology, comparative literature, or a related di...

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Mona Baie @monabaie.bsky.social · Jun 17

Join us next month in Fribourg for our conference Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, generously funded by the @snf-fns.ch. With presentations by @annmarieadams.bsky.social, @marcakeller.bsky.social, and many more!

Poster for an international conference on "Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature" (4th and 5th July, 2025), featuring event details and a grayscale architectural illustration.

A conference schedule for Friday, 4 July, listing sessions on medical spaces, psychiatry history, and modern hospital design, including speaker names, times, and breaks.

Programme Friday 4th July

9:15-10:00 King: Welcome and Introduction

1. Section: Medical spaces across time
10-10:45 Sam Cohn: Pandemics and the re-shaping of cities
10:45-11:30 Astrid Köhler: The medicalization of the spa in the nineteenth century
11:30-12:00 Coffee
12:00-12:45 Monika Ankele: The concept of “humanization” in the context of architecture and reform in 19th and 20th century psychiatry

12:45-14:15 Lunch

2. Section: The history and future of the modern hospital
14:15-15:15 Keynote Annmarie Adams: Medicine by design: the architect and the modern hospital, 1893-1943
15:15-16:00 Victoria Bates: Feeling blue: colour and the modern British hospital
16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30 – 17:30 Keynote Magnus Nickl: Healing Architecture – Next Generation

19:00 Conference Dinner

A conference schedule for Saturday, 5 July, listing sessions on medical spaces, psychiatry history, and modern hospital design, including speaker names, times, and breaks.

Programme, Saturday 5th July

3. Section: The modern hospital and technicalization
9:30-10:15 Flurin Condrau: Patients, doctors and technology: towards a history of intensive care units in Switzerland and the UK
10:15-11:00 Gina Rauschtenberger: Computer architecture and new forms of organization. On the building history of Aachen University Hospital as a technical object 1960-1980
11:00-11:30 Coffee

4. Section: Literary representations of medical spaces
11:30-12:15 Alina Boy: Spa Culture. Spaces of Healing in 20th Century German Literature
12:15-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14:45 Keynote Katrin Dennerlein: Narrating medical space in literature: Thomas Mann, the Chicago ‘Billings Hospital’ and “The Genesis of Doctor Faustus” (1949)
14:45-15:30 Mona Baie: Beyond heterotopia: on the semantics of clinical spaces in autopathographical prose of the 20th and 21st centuries
15:30-16 Coffee
16:00-16:45 Marc Keller: Spaces of assisted dying in contemporary German- and French-language literature and film

16:45-17:30 Final discussion

Abstract Conference Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature:

Since its beginnings in the 1970s, the ‘spatial turn’ has attracted many contributions from a variety of disciplines, e.g. architecture and urban planning, sociology, history, literature, and media studies. Overall, it laid the groundwork for a new conception of space: no longer a fixed container, but a dynamic category that shapes phenomena and relationships while itself being constantly reconfigured by them. Considering the broad debate following this impulse, however, one puzzling absence makes itself felt. This is the multiplicity of medical spaces that have emerged over time: from the medieval lazaretto, the psychiatric asylum, and the sanatorium to the university hospital of the present, etc. The multidisciplinary conference explores the emergence and determinators of these spaces and processes, investigating the actors, power relations, objects, boundaries, and thresholds that constitute them. Inversely, it also examines how they shape codes and roles as well as how they are represented in media, literature, and art.

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Rosen de Almeida @errrferrr.bsky.social · Jun 15

Weltweit werden LGBTIQ+ Rechte eingeschränkt. Und auch in der Schweiz droht die Stimmung zu kippen. Setz mit den queeren Menschen in der Schweiz ein Zeichen: Unterschreibe jetzt den queeren Appell! #QueererAppell #QueerRights #LGBTIQA
queerer-appell.ch

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Jun 12

Whatever your personal beliefs on Assisted Dying, we should all be able to agree on 2 fundamentals:

No means no. If a patient doesn’t want it, end of discussion.

It should never be offered in lieu of care or social supports.

If it is, it’s not compassion.

It’s eugenics 🧵

Screenshot of a Dallas express article. There’s a man sitting in a hospital gown. Text reads

Man With Disabilities Begs Hospital To Stop
Pushing Suicide
LOGAN WASHBURN - STAFF WRITER
HEALTH & SCIENCE
MAY 29, 2025
Roger Foley | Image by Roger Foley @rogerfoley/X
Hospital staff have repeatedly pushed a Canadian man with disabilities to accept euthanasia. Now, he says, they are repeatedly asking him about suicide while cutting off basic needs like food and

Screenshot of a Dallas examiner article which reads Brother Of Disabled Man To Canadian
Hospital: He Is 'Dying In Front Of You'
LOGAN WASHBURN - STAFF WRITER
HEALTH & SCIENCE
JUN 11, 2025
Roger Foley | Image by Roger Foley @rogerfoley/X
The brother of a disabled Canadian man is pleading with his hospital - which pushed euthanasia and cut off food and water nearly one month ago - to stop him from "dying in front of you."
Instead of helping, The Dallas Express has learned, hospital officials told his brother to stop contacting them.

There’s a photo of a man laying in a hospital bed

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Jun 11

Roger Foley has been speaking out about coercion within Canada's MAiD (medical assistance in dying) program for years.

He's been pushed to access it, despite repeatedly telling hospital staff he doesn't want to die.

He's had his accommodation for special lighting removed. Food & water restricted:

Brother Of Disabled Man To Canadian Hospital: He Is ‘Dying In Front Of You’

The brother of a disabled Canadian man is pleading with his hospital – which pushed euthanasia and cut off food and water.

dallasexpress.com

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Assisted Lab @assistedlab.bsky.social · Jun 9

New archive entry by @marcakeller.bsky.social on an important play, Lukas Bärfuss’s "Alices Reise in die Schweiz", depicting and influencing debates around assisted dying in Switzerland.

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'Alices Reise in die Schweiz. Szenen aus dem Leben des Sterbehelfers Gustav Strom' by Lukas Bärfuss

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Assisted Lab @assistedlab.bsky.social · Jun 5

Our workshop Palliative Care and Assisted Dying: Stories of the End of Life hosted by Marc Keller & Jordan McCullough is starting very soon. Thanks to Aude Campmas & @unisouthampton.bsky.social for the invite!

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Workshop : Palliative Care and Assisted Dying: Stories of the End of Life

This workshop is organised by the Southampton Centre for Medical and Health Humanities (SCMHH)

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Assisted Lab @assistedlab.bsky.social · Apr 14

In 2017 Australian assisted dying activist Philip Nitschke created the Sarco suicide pod.

Since then it has been the subject of serious ethical concerns and fierce criticism.

For an analysis by @marcakeller.bsky.social 👇

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Assisted Lab’s Living Archive of Assisted Dying • ‘Sarco’ by Philip Nitschke

Assisted Lab is a research group based at University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, that investigates the cultural productions – including films, texts, and other media – that influence the legal and poli...