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Weimar Controversies – Explorations in Popular Culture with Siegfried Kracauer
Häftad, 2021
393 kr
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In the Weimar Republic, popular culture was the scene of heated controversies that tested the limits of national cohesion. How could marginal figures like a stigmatized villager, a grub street writer, or an advocate for nudism become flashpoints of political conflict?Peter S. Fisher draws on …
Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities
Av Aaron Pinnix, Axel Volmar m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
770 kr
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Infrastructure comprises a combination of sociotechnical, political, and cultural arrangements that provide resources and services. The contributors to this volume show, in their respective fields, how infrastructures are both generative forces and the materialized products of quotidian practices …
Partisans in Yugoslavia
Literature, Film, and Visual Culture
Av Miranda Jakisa, Nikica Gilic
Häftad, 2015
646 kr
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The ubiquitous Partisan narrative in Yugoslavia served well as founding myth of its newly united people. Its retrospective deconstruction has absorbed most of the academic attention for the Yugoslav Partisans since the break-up. This edition in contrast looks into the (hybrid) nature of …
Art of Being Many
Towards a New Theory and Practice of Gathering
Av geheimagentur, Martin Jorg Schafer m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
539 kr
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Since 2010 we have witnessed new ways of assembling, which have made the word »democracy« sound important again. These practices may not have led to the political changes we had hoped for. Nevertheless, we are convinced of their importance. This book wants to acknowledge them as a starting point …
Miranda July's Intermedial Art
The Creative Class Between Self-Help and Individualism
Av Antje Czudaj
Häftad, 2016
573 kr
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This first in-depth study of Miranda July's work reveals some of its major motives and consequently provides fascinating insights into the lifestyle of the contemporary white Californian middle class. Through an analysis of July's award-winning intermedial work, the author lays open how July takes …
Chaos in the Contact Zone – Unpredictability, Improvisation, and the Struggle for Control in Cultural Encounters
Av Christoph Behrens, Stephanie Wodianka m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
523 kr
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Cultural encounters are often being stylized not only as experiences of uncontrollability and unpredictability par excellence, but also as challenges to planning and predicting. The history, the different forms and the consequences of this phenomenon are the main issues discussed in this volume. …
Performing Authorship
Strategies of "Becoming an Author" in the Works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle, and Jonathan Safran Foer
Häftad, 2016
641 kr
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Authors not only create artworks. In the process of creating, they simultaneously bring to life their author personae. Approaching this phenomenon from an interdisciplinary point of view, Sonja Longolius develops a concept of »performative authorship« by examining different strategies of becoming …
Complicity
New Perspectives on Collectivity
Av Gesa Ziemer
Inbunden, 2016
1270 kr
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Occupy, Commons and other social experiments show: New collectivities are invented and tested. Gesa Ziemer enriches this debate through the insight that in the process, the reinterpretation of old forms of joint action can play an essential role. By looking at complicities in art, science and …
Dancing Age(ing) – Rethinking Age(ing) in and through Improvisation Practice and Performance
Häftad, 2021
471 kr
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How can contemporary dance contribute to a critical discourse on age and ageing? Built on the premise that age(ing) is something we practice and perform as individuals and as a society, Susanne Martin asks for and develops strategies that allow dance artists to do age(ing) differently. As a whole, …
Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting – Discredited Practices at the Margins of Mimesis
Av Annalisa Fischer, Daniel Becker m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
660 kr
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Forgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture and closely related to traditional ideas of authenticity, legality, authorship, creativity, and innovation. Based on the concept of mimesis, this volume illustrates how forgeries must be understood as autonomous aesthetic practices – creative acts in …
Prizing Debate – The Fourth Decade of the Booker Prize and the Contemporary Novel in the UK
Häftad, 2021
717 kr
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This book offers a study of the literary marketplace in the early 2000s. Focusing on the Man Booker Prize and its impact on a novel's media attention, Anna Auguscik analyses the mechanisms by which the Prize both recognises books that trigger debates and itself becomes the object of such debates. …
Bordertextures – A Complexity Approach to Cultural Border Studies
Av Astrid M. Fellner, Christian Wille m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
590 kr
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Borders are much more than territorial markers on a map. In recent years, borders have gained more and more scholarly attention, and the field of border studies has become increasingly diversified when it comes to different trends and analytical approaches. This edited collection reflects these …
Imagining Earth – Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of Our Home Planet
Av Nicolas Pethes, Solvejg Nitzke m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
501 kr
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While concepts of Earth have a rich tradition, more recent examples show a distinct quality: Though ideas of wholeness might still be related to mythical, religious, or utopian visions of the past, "Earth" itself has become available as a whole. This raises several questions: How are the notions of …
Creative Resistance – Political Humor in the Arab Uprisings
Av Sabine Damir–geilsdor, Stephan Milich m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
635 kr
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During the uprisings of the Arab Spring between 2010 and 2012, oppositional movements used political humor to criticize political leaders or to expose the absurdities of the socio-political conditions. These humorous expressions in various art forms such as poetry, stand-up comedy, street art, …
British White Trash – Figurations of Tainted Whiteness in the Novels of Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths, and John King
Av Mark Schmitt
Häftad, 2021
476 kr
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"White trash" is a liminal figure that dramatizes the intersection of race and class. Contemporary British novelists like Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths and John King use this originally US-American stereotype to interrogate the racializing discourse of class in British society. Their novels are …
TransCoding: From `Highbrow Art` to Participator – Social Media – Art – Research
Häftad, 2021
340 kr
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Between 2014 and 2017, the artistic research project "TransCoding – From 'Highbrow Art' to Participatory Culture" encouraged creative participation in multimedia art via social media. Based on the artworks that emerged from the project, Barbara Lüneburg investigates authorship, authority, …
Futures Worth Preserving – Cultural Constructions of Nostalgia and Sustainability
Av Tom Clucas, Andressa Schröder m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
655 kr
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Cultures as well as individuals continually balance the demands of nostalgia and sustainability as they construct historical narratives of ›futures worth preserving‹. The aim of this volume is to explore those narratives and the underlying assumptions which inform them. Drawing on a range of …
Poetics of Neurosis – Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts
Av Elena Furlanetto, Dietmar Meinel m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
418 kr
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While psychiatry and the neurosciences have dismissed the concept of neurosis as too vague for medical purposes, in recent years literary studies have adopted the term by virtue of its abstractness. This volume investigates the verbalization of neurosis in literary and cultural texts. As opposed to …
Change the Record - Punk Women Music Politics
Häftad, 2024
280 kr
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Poets, Guitarists, Songwriters, TV Stars, Provocateurs, Riot Grrrl founders: the authors in this study challenge perceptions of punk music and politics. Viv Albertine, Alice Bag, Pauline Black, Carrie Brownstein, Kim Gordon, Nina Hagen, Chrissie Hynde, Patti Smith, Brix Smith Start, and Cosey Fanni …
Situated in Translations – Cultural Communities and Media Practices
Av Michaela Ott, Thomas Weber m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
694 kr
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Cultural communities are shaped and produced by ongoing processes of translation understood as aesthetic media practices – such is the premise of this volume. Taking on perspectives from cultural, literary and media studies as well as postcolonial theory, the chapters shed light on composite …
Mediated Myth of Lin Zexu – Social and Cultural Textures of Chinese Society
Häftad, 2021
471 kr
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The Chinese scholar-official Lin Zexu played a crucial role in the First Opium War in the 19th century. Since 1978, the myth surrounding the historical figure is used to legitimise current rulers' political power, to celebrate dominant values, and to promote a certain associated way of life. By …
Living Together – Roland Barthes, the Individual and the Community
Av Knut Stene–johansen, Christian Refsum m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
733 kr
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Is it possible to create a community where everyone lives according to their own rhythm, and yet respects the individual rhythms of others? This volume contains new essays which investigate and actualize the concepts that Roland Barthes discussed in his famous 1977 lecture series on "How to Live …
Screening Economies – Money Matters and the Ethics of Representation
Av Daniel Cuonz, Scott Loren m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
321 kr
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The relationship between economy, finance and society has become opaque. Quantum leaps in complexity and scale have turned this deeply interdependent web of relations into an area of incomprehensible abstraction. And while the economization of life has come under widespread critique, inquiry into …
Realms of Royalty – New Directions in Researching Contemporary European Monarchies
Av Christina Jordan, Imke Polland m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
448 kr
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Monarchies are facing public demands for modernization and adapting to changing societal, political, and media environments. This book proposes new directions in the research of contemporary European monarchies and offers innovative perspectives on trans/national royal public interactions and …
Truth and Fiction – Conspiracy Theories in Eastern European Culture and Literature
Av Peter Deutschmann, Jens Herlth m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
568 kr
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Several of the most prolific and influential conspiracy theories have originated in Eastern Europe. The far reaching influence of conspiracy narratives can be observed in recent developments in Poland or with regard to the wars waged in Eastern Ukraine and in former Yugoslavia. This volume analyses …
Arctic Archives – Ice, Memory, and Entropy
Av Kjetil Jakobsen, Susi K. Frank m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
608 kr
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This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the anthropocene.Focusing on the Arctic as an archive means to investigate it not only as a place of human history and memory – of Arctic exploring, …
Practices of Speculation – Modeling, Embodiment, Figuration
Av Jeanne Cortiel, Christine Hanke m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
812 kr
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This volume offers innovative ways to think about speculation at a time when anticipation of catastrophe in an apocalyptic mode is the order of the day and shapes public discourse on a global scale. It maps an interdisciplinary field of investigation: the chapters interrogate hegemonic ways of …
Building Blocks – A Cultural History of Codes, Compositions, and Dispositions
Häftad, 2021
951 kr
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Building blocks are practical materials for playing, learning and working at kindergartens, schools, universities and companies. How did building blocks, which were primarily established as toys for children, come to be practical materials used in professional and educational settings?This study …
Imagined Economies–Real Fictions – New Perspectives on Economic Thinking in Great Britain
Av Jessica Fischer, Gesa Stedman m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
418 kr
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The way we conceptualise the economy and ourselves as homo economicus has profound consequences for our lives. The contributions to this anthology take debates about the financial crisis, about recent austerity measures or about the Brexit referendum a step further. A common denominator of these …
Taking Sides – Theories, Practices, and Cultures of Participation in Dissent
Av Elke Bippus, Anne Ganzert m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
492 kr
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Is there an option to oppose without automatically participating in the opposed? This volume explores different perspectives on dissent, understanding practices, cultures, and theories of resistance, dispute, and opposition as inherently participative. It discusses aspects of the body as a …
