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Time to care
A manifesto for a chronofeminist politics of time against capitalist grind culture, time inequality, and stolen futures.
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Exploring the fantastic
The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The c...
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Video conferencing
Taking the recent mainstreaming of videoconferencing as its point of departure, this anthology examines the complex mediality of this new form of social interaction.
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Platformization of urban life
This book addresses the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.
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Between violence, vulnerability, resilience and resistance
How are the structures of power and the notion of agency among Syrian women during the recent Syrian conflict connected? Rand El Zein investigates gender politics around displacement, conflict, the body, and the nation, examining how Arab television news discursively represented the experiences o...
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Needful structures
Based on a novel, complementary reading of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, Marcel Siegler develops a conceptual framework for analyzing the intricate machinations of sociotechnical systems from a perspective on situated human-technology interaction.
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Common image
Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie develop the notion of the common image—a multisensory perception and common ethics that transcend species-bound ways of living. Highlighting the notion of the common as opposed to the immune, the authors ultimately advocate otherness as a common ground for a larger th...
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The object as a process
This volume is dedicated to the object as a process in order to offer new insights into the ways the object - broadly construed, comprising digital and other non-classical objects - becomes an active element in artistic practice.
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Understanding the rights of nature
This book presents the logic behind giving nature rights and discusses key cases in which this has happened, ranging from constitutional rights of nature in Ecuador to rights for rivers in New Zealand, Colombia, and India. Mihnea Tanasescu offers clear answers to the thorny questions that the int...
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Imagining unequals, imagining equals
Why did “equality” become prominent in European societies based on hierarchy during the Enlightenment? This book explores concepts of equality from the perspectives of history and law, showing how practices of comparing were essential when it came to imagining others as equal, fighting discrimina...
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Figurations of childhood
How class, urban space, and security shape childhoods – and why intergenerational spatial justice matters.
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
This issue explores how artificial intelligence, as both a technological and cultural practice, reshapes power, visibility, and social relations in digital societies.
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Glocal bodies
This book is a critical study of Iranian dance and the works of Iranian-American female dancers in exile. Focusing on the choreographies of three female dancers in diaspora, Elaheh Hatami investigates the transformation of professional Iranian dance and discusses the role of relocation and displa...
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Reworking the computer age
A global history of the computer age from the perspective of work, gender, and emotions.
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Traditions can be changed
Harald Barre considers newspapers and academic activism in Tanzania as forums in which the project of an independent African nation was shaped through heated debates. Examining the changing discourses on race and gender in the 1960s and 1970s, he reveals that equating difference with inequality i...
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Taking stakes in the unknown
In 2001, Freestyle, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly opaque term post-black to a pre-9/11 and pre-Obama world. Nana Adusei-Poku contextualizes the term post...
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Convivial futures
This book presents possibilities for a convivial future that would be attractive for as many as possible. It also encompasses theoretical debate on convivialism and shows the multiple and major obstacles that convivialism will have to face.
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Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge
Dimensions is a journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. Issue 3 is concerned with the form of the doctoral thesis in practice-oriented research. It takes the love for playing with forms, genres, and...
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Genetic responsibility in germany and israel
Prenatal diagnosis, especially noninvasive prenatal testing, has changed the experience of pregnancy and prenatal care. This book presents conversations between leading scholars from Israel and Germany, featuring analyses of the reshaping of life by biomedicine and philosophical reflections on so...
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Practices of comparing
Practices of comparing shape how we perceive, organize, and change the world. This volume outlines the program of a new research agenda that places comparative practices at the center of an interdisciplinary exploration.
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Embodied violence and agency in refugee regimes
This book contrasts multiple groups of refugees and refugee regimes, revealing the inherent coercive violence of refugee regimes, from displacement and expulsion, to stereotypification and exclusion in host countries, and academic knowledge essentialization. This violence is international, nation...
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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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Beyond narrative
An investigation of the ›borderlands of narrativity‹ — the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of narrative meets other symbolic logics, such as data(base), play, spectacle, or ritual.
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Cultures of computer game concerns
The same computer games are played by youths all over the world, and worldwide games become matters of concern in relation to children: worries rise about addiction, violence, education, time, and economy. Yet, these concerns vary depending upon where they are situated: in families, legal context...
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Hearing sexism
Analyzing the voices of Kurt Cobain, Kate Bush, Björk and others, Müller demonstrates how gender is performed vocally and interacts with gendered aspects of embodiment and affect.
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Mental health | atmospheres | video games
Video game are an atmospheric medium of hitherto unimagined potential. Is the medium too powerful, too influential? A danger to our mental health or an ally during the darkest of times? This volume compiles papers from the Young Academics Workshop at the Clash of Realities conferences of 2019 and...
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Global curriculum development
How can higher education empower students as agents of the social transformations that our societies need so urgently? Linn Friedrichs connects John Dewey’s education theory, current research on globalization, and inclusive curriculum design approaches to propose a new educational model for our a...
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Wallerstein 2.0
Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the twenty-first century. The contributors address the possibilities to reread Wallerstein’s theoretical thoughts and ideas that are related to different disciplines in the humanities and social...
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The politics of digital pharmacology
New types of distraction, self-observation, and control into our societies are an epochal challenge. Following Bernard Stiegler's concept of pharmacology, Heidenreich and Weber-Stein propose to view these new forms as digital pharmaka. Properly dosed, they can enable new self-relationships and fo...
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Museums, transculturality, and the nation-state
With case studies from various geo- and sociopolitical contexts from around the globe,this book investigates the role the nation-state continues to play in museums, collections, and heritage. Contributors ask how the nation-state still determines practices of collection and circulation and illumi...
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The christian right in europe
Inspired by the success of the US Christian Right and the rise of the global far-right, ultraconservative Christians in Europe are joining forces and seek to reshape Europe. This anthology is the first to bring together case studies on the Christian Right in over 20 European countries, providing ...
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Power relations in black lives
According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key con...
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The interactive documentary form
While the concept of the documentary film is well established, interactive documentary is a newly emerging form of non-linear, non-fiction narrative that animates viewers to control their own path through a film.Stefano Odorico examines the aesthetic structures and dynamics of interactive documen...
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Aquatic environments
Insights into the rich tradition of Latin American literature set in aquatic environments.
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The order of people
Human classifications: An examination of underlying epistemologies, ambiguities, and politics that reveals how concepts such as race, ethnicity, and ancestry are employed in the life sciences today.
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Temporality and aesthetic regimes in the ›black atlantic‹ 1
Part of a two-volume exploration of philosophical notions and aesthetic forms of temporality in the Black Atlantic, this first one focuses on how Black artists discussed and transcended modern ideas of time.
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Practicing and placing imaginaries
What does Imagination do? How does it affect our reality and the places we experience? Answers from sociology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies.
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Hydropoetics
A study of human-water-power relationships in Eastern European cultures: an important contribution to the vibrant field of blue humanities.
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Collecting seeds, assembling worlds
If crop diversity loss is a product of modern agriculture, is freezing seed diversity to adapt modern agriculture to changing conditions the answer?
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Images and objects of russia's war against ukraine
How do art, infrastructures, material culture, and media respond to and contest the Russo-Ukrainian War?
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Trust, responsibility, and digital governance
A new approach to the ethics and politics of digital systems, grounded in the capacities of individuals, groups, and organisations to critically assess and actively shape these technologies.
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Venice, an archipelago of art and ecologies
How culture and the arts can help addressing the socio-ecological challenges of the future.
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Fair fashion?
A comprehensive review of Fair Trade practices in the fashion industry, critically examining the often-overlooked aspect of cultural sustainability.
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Anti-asian racism in transatlantic perspectives
Unveiling the deep-seated roots and modern impact of viral anti-Asian racism through an interdisciplinary approach – a transatlantic study.
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Delinking and global reparations
A collective effort making the case for delinking and global reparations – amid ongoing and overlapping global crises affecting the Global South.
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Temporality and aesthetic regimes in the ›black atlantic‹ 2
Part of a two-volume exploration of philosophical notions and aesthetic forms of temporality in the Black Atlantic, this second one focuses on how blackness and temporality have impacted the arts and culture in the US.
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Platform jazz
The first empirical study of the production logics of popular jazz musicians on TikTok.
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Methods of exhibition analysis
A tool kit for exhibition analysis packed with a diversity of methods to critically examine exhibitions from various angles.
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Women in science
A collection of the experiences of twelve women academics, highlighting the challenges but also the privileges of an academic career.
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Colonial memories and post-colonial silences
Christina Haritos sheds light on the post-colonial power dynamics that shape these discussions by analyzing German and Namibian journalistic coverage of the Herero and Nama genocide, with a focus on the German-Namibian genocide negotiations between 2015 and 2021.
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