Eva Berger – författare

Are people with autism giving us a glimpse into our future human condition? Could we be driving our own evolution with our technology and, in fact, be witnessing the beginning of the next stage of human evolution? The thesis at the center of this book is that since we have delegated the ability to read context to contextual technologies such as social media, location, and sensors, we have become context blind. Since context blindness—or caetextia in Latin—is one of the most dominant symptoms of autistic behavior at the highest levels of the spectrum, people with autism may indeed be giving us a peek into our human condition soon. We could be witnessing the beginning of the next stage of human evolution—Homo caetextus. With increasingly frequent floods and fires and unbearably hot summers, the human footprint on our planet should be evident to all, but it is not because we are context blind. We can now see and feel global warming. We are witnessing evolution in real-time and birthing our successor species. Our great-grandchildren may be a species very distinct from us. This book is a must for all communication and media studies courses dealing with digital technology, media, culture, and society. And a general reading public concerned with the polarized public sphere, difficulties in sustaining democratic governance, rampant conspiracies, and phenomena such as cancel culture and the need for trigger warnings and safe spaces, will find it enlightening.

Are people with autism giving us a glimpse into our future human condition? Could we be driving our own evolution with our technology and, in fact, be witnessing the beginning of the next stage of human evolution? The thesis at the center of this book is that since we have delegated the ability to read context to contextual technologies such as social media, location, and sensors, we have become context blind. Since context blindness—or caetextia in Latin—is one of the most dominant symptoms of autistic behavior at the highest levels of the spectrum, people with autism may indeed be giving us a peek into our human condition soon. We could be witnessing the beginning of the next stage of human evolution—Homo caetextus. With increasingly frequent floods and fires and unbearably hot summers, the human footprint on our planet should be evident to all, but it is not because we are context blind. We can now see and feel global warming. We are witnessing evolution in real-time and birthing our successor species. Our great-grandchildren may be a species very distinct from us. This book is a must for all communication and media studies courses dealing with digital technology, media, culture, and society. And a general reading public concerned with the polarized public sphere, difficulties in sustaining democratic governance, rampant conspiracies, and phenomena such as cancel culture and the need for trigger warnings and safe spaces, will find it enlightening.

Längst eingetreten und für jeden bereits deutlich spürbar ist der Klimawandel. Begrünungen bieten gerade im städtisch dicht verbauten Gebiet messbare, ausgleichende Wirkungen an: Parks und Gärten, Straßenbegleitgrün, Vorgärten, begrünte Plätze und Höfe, Fassadengrün und Dachgrün erhalten in unser sich verändernden Umwelt einen neuen Stellenwert.Als kleine Wiener Geschichte des Dachgartens und der Dachterrasse trägt das Buch zum besseren Verständnis dieses speziellen Bereiches der Freiraumgestaltung bei. In einem Rückblick auf die Prototypen von Dachgärten und Dachterrassen ab der Antike bis hin zu Beispielen des 20. Jahrhunderts werden die vielfältigen Spielarten von Räumen zum Aufenthalt hoch oben im Freien in Wort und Bild aufgezeigt. Von den "Hängenden Gärten" der Königin Semiramis im antiken Babylon, über zahlreiche Wiener Beispiele bis zum "Terrassenwäldchen", das dem Dissidenten Bogdan Bogdanovic (1922–2010) ermöglichte, sich trotz verhängtem jahrelangen Hausarrests in seiner Belgrader Wohnung im Freien aufzuhalten, reichen diese oft erstaunlichen und bisweilen berührenden Möglichkeiten.