Sascha Klein – författare

As a space of extremes, the skyscraper has been continually constructed as an urban frontier in American cultural productions. Like its counterpart of the American wilderness, this vertical frontier serves as a privileged site for both subversion and excessive control. Beyond common metaphoric readings, this study models the skyscraper not only as a Foucauldian heterotopia, but also as a complex network of human and nonhuman actors while retracing its development from its initial assemblage during the 19th century to its steady evolution into a smart structure from the mid-20th century onward. It takes a close look at US-American literary and filmic fictions and the ways in which they sought to make sense of this extraordinary structure throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries. More traditional poststructuralist spatial theories are connected with concepts and methods of Actor-Network Theory in a compelling account of the skyscraper’s evolution as reflected in fictional media from early 20th-century short stories via a range of action, disaster and horror films to selected city novels of the 1990s and 2000s.

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Law - Civil / Private, Trade, Anti Trust Law, Business Law, grade: Sehr Gut, University of Hannover (Rechtsinformatik), language: English, abstract: The amount of available information on the internet has increased enormously throughout the last decade. Accordingly the search engines have improved and enhanced their features as well. One of these features is Google's image search which was implemented in 2001. These search engines are an easy way to illustrate images; nevertheless on the downside some copyright law issues occur. The dispute discussed is concerning the lawfulness of image search engines in Germany and was submitted to the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof).

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Law - Philosophy, History and Sociology of Law, grade: Sehr Gut, Stockholm University (IRI ), course: IT-Law, language: English, abstract: During the so-called 'War on Terror' the citizen's rights get more and more under pressure. The critics of this development are gaged with the argument 'Who does not have something to hide, has nothing to fear' . However there is a common understanding that there is a need of legal rules for acts of surveillance. In the context of Electronic Surveillance of Communications there has been a consideration if the collection of data and surveillance are consistent with the right of privacy apart from its legitimacy. Especially against the background that this is both a human right and a constitutional right.