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Interactive documentary and non-fiction media
Interactive documentary blends documentary filmmaking with features of web-programming: new theoretical and analytical approaches.
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Images on the move
This edited volume re-examines the historical, aesthetical, and theoretical relevance of image mobility. The contributors provide a materialist account of images on the move—ranging from wired photography to postcards to streaming media.
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Border wall aesthetics
Is there a deeper significance in the artistic encounter with border walls? Elisa Ganivet revisits the history of border wall aesthetics and compares more recent border-related works by artists including Joseph Beuys, Banksy, and Frida Kahlo.
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Right-wing populism and gender
While the field of research in right-wing populism has recently been blossoming and is expanding, a systematic look into the interface of right-wing populism and gender is still missing. This volume seeks to strengthen the analysis of the intersection of gender and race as constitutional for radi...
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Democracy and digital communication
How platforms are embedded in political systems and shape the conditions of communication and collective decision-making.
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Matter, affect, antinormativity
Caroline Braunmühl shows that there are dualistic patterns in significant contributions to queer theory as well as Foucauldian diagnoses of the present. The book suggests specific alternatives to dualistic as well as identitarian ways of framing conceptual pairs such as matter/mind, affect/discou...
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Sound formations
Rémy Bocquillon reflects on the process-oriented character of sociology as an experimental science by including aesthetic practices of sounding and listening as constitutive for the making of sociological theory. Featuring an audio chapter, »feeding-back« the sonic experimentations at the core of...
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Resistance and the politics of truth
`The truth will set you free' is a maxim central to both theories and practices of resistance. Nonetheless, it is a claim that has come under fire from an array of critical perspectives in the second half of the 20th century. Iain MacKenzie analyses two of the most compelling of these perspective...
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The myths that made america
Myths play a vital role in the process of American »nation building«. On the basis of a critical analysis of central American myths this textbook offers an introduction to the field of American (Culture) Studies.
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Online museum collections and social media
How are digital museum images curated, shared, and transformed across platforms? Shaping new ways of knowing about and with artefacts.
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De bruin, mindfulness and meditation at university
Andreas de Bruin showcases the remarkable results of the first ten years of the Munich Model “Mindfulness and Meditation in a University Context.” Students describe the effects of mindfulness and meditation on their studies and in their daily lives.
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Breathe – critical research into the inequalities of life
This volume explore different acts of suffocation and release. It show how the protection of bodies is unequally and ambivalently distributed.
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Labor turnover in ethiopia's textile industry
Michaela Fink investigates why the Ethiopian textile industry is particularly affected by high labor turnover, focusing primarily on the voices of the (female) workforce.
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The palladio method
This book reflects on Palladio's method(s) beyond historism and style, and thus provide insights into design and building in our time.
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Marxism and intersectionality
Ashley J. Bohrer argues that it is only by considering race, gender, sexuality, and ability within the structures of capitalism and imperialism that we can understand power relations. Bohrer explains how the purported incompatibilities between Marxism and intersectionality arise more from miscomm...
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History in games
Claims of authenticity are prominent in discussions surrounding digital games. What is historical authenticity and does it even matter? When does authenticity or the lack thereof become political? By answering these questions, the book illuminates the ubiquitous category of authenticity from the ...
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The invention of ›outsider art‹
Marion Scherr investigates structural inequalities and the myth of the Other in Western art history, examining the role of ›Outsider Art‹ in contemporary art worlds in the UK.
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Savage horrors
The American Gothic novel has been deeply shaped by issues of race and raciality from its origins in British Romanticism to the twenty-first century. Corinna Lenhardt uncovers the destructive and lasting impact of the Gothic’s anti-Black racism on cultural discourses in the United States and trac...
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Enduring enmity
How did the relationship between the politically very disparate theorists Carl Schmitt and Otto Kirchheim shape their political thinking? Hubertus Buchstein investigates the personal, political, and theoretical dimensions between the infamous legal theorist Schmitt and his former student Kirchhei...
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Medicine – religion – spirituality
How do therapeutic practitioners position themselves between medicine and religion, and what is their appeal for patients? This book investigates the entanglements of medicine, religion, and spirituality.
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Ai in museums
This book brings together a wide range of critical reflections, practical perspectives and concrete applications of artificial intelligence in museums, as well as offering an overview of the current state of the debate.
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The mediatization of the o.j. simpson case
Tatjana Neubauer examines the mediatization, deliberate manipulation, and the simplification of popular criminal trials for profit on television.
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Germany's conscience
Reinbert Krol’s analysis of the German historian Friedrich Meinecke’s intellectual development does not only give us insight into his philosophy of history—which turns out to be more conciliatory than previously assumed—it also provides a source of inspiration for scholars of history today.
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Violence | perception | video games
This volume compiles papers from the Young Academics Workshop at the Clash of Realities conferences of 2017 and 2018. From BA students to postdoctoral researchers, the young academics of this anthology stem from a spectrum of backgrounds, including game studies, game design, and phenomenology.
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Virtual immortality – god, evolution, and the singularity in post- and transhumanism
In recent years, ideas of post- and transhumanism have been popularized by novels, TV series, and Hollywood movies. This study examines the historical and philosophical context of these futuristic promises by Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, Frank Tipler, and other posthumanist thinkers.
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Webfare
Webfare, a form of digital welfare, seeks to initiate a Copernican revolution that places need instead of merit at the center of society.
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Thinking like a river
Franz Krause examines fishing, transport and hydropower on the Kemi River and analyses the profoundly rhythmic patterns in the river dwellers' activities and the river's dynamics.
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Assistive media
This book provides a unique perspective on assistance, situated at the intersection of media studies and disability studies.
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The bureaucratic production of difference
In the context of the ever-increasing political problematization of migration in Europe, agencies charged with migrant administration create diverse categories of difference to distinguish between the “deserving migrant” and the illegal one. This book analyzes how organizational interpretations o...
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Migrant families and transcultural dynamics
Migration processes affect migrants' families and family relations – in complex and diverse ways. Family fragmentation lasting for years or even decades, access to citizenship and welfare state resources change concepts of parenting and care as well as gender relations.In this volume, authors fro...
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Competition in world politics
The “return of great power competition” among (among others) the United States, China, Russia and the EU is a major topic in contemporary public debate. This cutting-edge edited collection offers a fresh account of competition in world politics, looking beyond its military dimensions to questions...
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Black (post-)cinemas
In this collection of essays, Maja Figge traces the transtemporal bonds between militant African film and Afro-diasporic post-cinema.
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Queer art
A queer theory of visual art – based on extensive readings of art works Queer Art traces the question of how strategies of denormalization initiated by visual arts can be continued through writing. In the book's three chapters art theoretical debates are combined with queer theory, post-colonial ...
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Geopolitics and energy diplomacy in the caspian region
Yunis Gurbanov explores the strategic importance of the Caspian region and how its oil and gas resources could serve as an alternative to conventional suppliers.
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The supernatural media virus
Since the 1990s, the virus and the network metaphors have become increasingly popular, finding application in a broad range of everyday discourses, academic disciplines, and fiction genres. Rahel Sixta Schmitz defines and discusses a trope recurring in Gothic fiction: the supernatural media virus.
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The persistence of technology
Telling the stories of, among others, China’s power grid, Colombian roads, American telephones, German automobiles, and India’s ship breaking business, the contributions in this volume stress the long lives of technologies and show that maintenance and repair are not obsolete in modern industries...
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Urban heritage planning in tehran and beyond
Solmaz Yadollahi maps the historical trajectory of conservation and urban heritage planning in Iran.
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Handbook transdisciplinary learning
This handbook unpacks key terms and concepts to describe the range of transdisciplinary learning in the context of academic education.
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Geographical research in the digital humanities
This book encourages further research utilizing out-of-the-box models and approaches to space and place in the field of Digital Humanities.
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Archives, access and artificial intelligence
Born-digital archives are now better preserved and managed thanks to the development of open-access and commercial software. This book explores crossovers between various disciplines to improve the discoverability, accessibility, and use of born-digital archives and other cultural assets.
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Women architects and politics
Case studies by scholars from Europe and Israel explore the gendered professional in the twentieth century as she navigated arrangements of power—including organized religion, emancipation movements, cultural norms, and shifting forms of government—to practice architecture.
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Drawing and experiencing architecture
Marianna Charitonidou shows how mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city's inhabitants.
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The flavor of thinking
A holistic perspective on strategies, methodologies, and examples of writing and reading by philosopher-artists and artistic researchers who strive toward a genuine crossover between art and philosophy.
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Belonging through heritage?
A sociolgical lens on local festivals shows how minorities in German towns draw symbolic boundaries shaped by and resisting global heritage discourses.
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Big screens, small forms
Lisa Gotto presents a multifaceted collection of essays that explore thetransformational potential of digital media culture, contextualize itsmedia-technical conditions, and reflect on its social consequences.
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The femininity puzzle
The »femininity puzzle« presents itself in two ways: first in the role of effeminization of the male Jew in antisemitic discourse, and then in the transgressive forms of femininity connected to Jewish women, especially the allosemitic Orientalization in the figure of the »Beautiful Jewess«.
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The poetics and politics of invective humor
Katja Schulze explores the formal principles, media-specific realizations, and the cultural work of disparagement in contemporary female-led situation comedies. Subsequently, larger patterns of (gender-based) invective strategies and conventions that define the dynamism of this comedic genre come...
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Extraordinary forms of aging
This study contributes to a deeper understanding of age(ing) by exploring its construction through the analysis of extraordinary cases. Focusing on life narratives of centenarians and children with progeria.
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Virtual reality exhibited
A world within a world: exploring virtual reality in contemporary art, its technical potential, aesthetic qualities, and associated imaginations.
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Global authoritarianism
Twenty scholar-activists from the Global South show in their in-depth studies how national processes of authoritarian capitalism have undermined political systems on a global scale.
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