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Re-composing youtube
Jonas Wolf explores open-ended forms of musical creative relay on YouTube, delving into formal, imitative, affective, and (non-)institutional aspects of networked media remix and (self-)aestheticisation.
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Strange blood
In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion was tested as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia, and proposed as a means to reanimate seemingly dead soldiers on the battlefield. This book ventures into hospital wards and lunatic asylums, laboratories and wars, to e...
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Nationhood at work
Dave Poitras explores how nationhood and the idea of living in a world of nations are experienced in the cities of Montreal and Brussels. Drawing on ethnographic research, he identifies the typical ways of enacting nationhood, exploring marginalization in biethnonational milieus.
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Because of you: understanding second-person storytelling
Evgenia Iliopoulou rethinks second-person storytelling, starting from the essentials of grammar and rhetoric. In its various forms and typologies, the second person amplifies and expands the limits of representation.
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»truth« and fiction
Many influential conspiracy theories originated in Eastern Europe. This volume analyzes the history behind this widespread phenomenon as well as its relationship with representations of the present in Eastern European cultures and literatures.
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Death is served
Stella Castelli shows how America fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from language's inability to satisfactorily grasp death.
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Religious freedom and populism
This book examines the appropriation of freedom of religion by right-wing populists and extremists worldwide.
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Creating learning spaces
What can we learn from a teacher’s journal about working with challenging youth? What experiences transpire during a train trip to the sea with an unruly crew of school boys? What happens when children plan a trip on their own? This book illustrates formative and inspirational moments from the au...
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From post-yugoslavia to the female continent
Women’s writing from the former/post-Yugoslavia recollects but also produces the links among the post-Yugoslav present and the Yugoslav past. Drawing attention to an uninterrupted marginalization of women authors, Tijana Matijevic reconceptualizes contemporary literary production from Bosnia and ...
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The unknown in design, art, and technology
An invitation to question the presumed certainties in design, art, and technology.
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Family in crisis?
Scholars of cultural, gender, and media studies, lawyers, sociologists, and historians discuss how today’s families cross borders and how cultural texts—sitcoms, films, novels, short stories, and political magazines from Europe and the U.S.—(de-)construct, take part in, and mirror family discourses.
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Art and economics in the city
Emerging forms of alternative economic frameworks are changing the structure of society, redefining the relationship between centre and periphery, and the social dynamics in the urban fabric. In this context, the arts can play a crucial role in formulating a concept of complex and plural citizens...
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Playing dystopia
Gerald Farca explores the genre of dystopian video games and the player’s aesthetic response to their nightmarish gameworlds. Players, he argues, will gradually come to see similarities between the virtual dystopia and their own offline environment, thus learning to stay wary of social and politi...
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Narrating the multispecies world
International artists and scholars share their stories of loss and hope regarding today's polycrises and their effects on animals, plants, and humans all over the world.
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Framing prior consultation in brazil
This book is a rich ethnographic and historic account of the juridification of prior consultation in Brazil. In her case study on the national regulation of ILO Convention 169, Charlotte Schumann critically examines the dynamic conflicts over competence and interpretation of this paramount safegu...
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Contemporary performemory
This book looks at dance works created in the twenty-first century by choreographers identifying as Afro-European, Jewish, Black, Palestinian, and Taiwanese-Chinese-American. It explores how contemporary dance-makers engage with historical traumas to reimagine how the past is remembered and how t...
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Wilhelmsburg is our home!
Based on rich interviews, photographs, and archival research, Julie Chamberlain rejects the usual silence in German urban studies around racialization and examines how constructing some groups as »not belonging« has shaped Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg's past and present.
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The local museum in the global village
Insa Müller asks how local history museums can recast themselves to strengthen the links to their communities. Combining theoretical deliberations, empirical investigations of the case of two Norwegian islands, and a museum experiment, she offers starting points for rethinking this institution.
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The making of modern subjects
A book about Korean female spectators of the colonial era, which argues that public discourse aimed to mold them into a male-driven and top-down modernization project.
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The new meatways and sustainability
By exploring the connections between practices and discourses, Minna Kanerva develops a conceptual approach enabling purposive change in unsustainable social practices. Radical transformation towards new meatways is necessary, yet complex psychological, ideological, and power-related mechanisms ...
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Trans health
This anthology addresses trans people’s access to healthcare from a transnational perspective, and offers courses of action to improve nursing, medical, therapeutic, and social care for trans persons. Most contributions of this book are written from a lived trans experience.
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Talking politics and society again
Revitalizing democratic conversation in troubled times: what, why, and how?
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
This issue integrates new perspectives from History, Digital Humanities, and Game Studies to explore the epistemological and political implications that arise from the practical interweaving of game development and historical knowledge.
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Digital culture & society (dcs)
»Digital Culture & Society« is a refereed, international journal, fostering discussion about the ways in which digital technologies, platforms and applications reconfigure daily lives and practices. It offers a forum for critical analysis and inquiries into digital media theory and provides a...
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Taking sides
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.
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Independent theatre in contemporary europe
Over the past 20 years European theatre underwent fundamental changes in terms of aesthetic focus, institutional structure and in its position in society. The impetus for these changes was provided by a new generation in the independent theatre scene.This book brings together studies on the state...
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Thinking the problematic
This book explores central scenes and conceptual elaborations of what historically has been called “the problem” or “the problematic.” The chapters contextualize the (re-)arising of this notion within the history of power and knowledge since the late nineteenth century.
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The 2051 munich climate conference
This book collects work from the 2051 Munich Climate Conference organized by the theatre collective Büro Grandezza.
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Living at night in times of pandemic
This book offers perspectives on night studies in France and Germany and the techno scene from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.
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The aesthetics of collective agency
This book explores the aesthetic forms that collective agency takes in the twenty-first century across a variety of media.
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Radio explorations
Rooted in experimental design and data feminism, Radio Explorations presents innovative tools for navigating data by spanning media theory, information studies, and feminist new materialism.
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The production of consumer society
With a novel quality theory of consumption which treats opulence and self-restraint symmetrically, Ernst Mohr shows how social distance and proximity are communicated by consumption and produced by communication. He positions fringe styles with those of the mainstream in an overall stylistic syst...
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Reading race relationally
Lieber argues that Whitehead's first six novels portray the relation between late capitalist social structures and processes of racial classification.
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Hardcore research
Hardcore Research: Punk, Practice, Politics provides a comprehensive insight into the most active, outspoken, and widely received scholarly positions in the academic discourses on hardcore and punk.
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Changing time – shaping world
To re-create meaning is an interdisciplinary cross-sectional task of our zeitgeist in a civil society. Our international guests represent key roles in relevant philosophical, technical or economic debates, non-university community art & design projects or companies.
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The cultures of entanglement
This book examines the symbolic meaning of plants, their relevance and how culture and they are something more than passive objects.
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Philology in the making
Philological practices have served to secure and transmit textual sources for centuries. However, this volume contends, it is only in the light of the current radical media change labeled the “digital turn” that the material and technological prerequisites of the theory and practice of philology ...
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Queerbeograd cabaret
This book demonstrates how staging QueerBeograd contributed to the advancement of the intersectionality perspective beyond identity.
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Creating communities
How does historical reality interrelate with fiction? And how much are readers themselves involved in the workings of fictional literature? With innovative interpretations of various well-known texts, Nourit Melcer-Padon introduces the use of literary masks and illustrates literature's engagement...
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Artistic provenance research
Proposing the new term - artistic provenance research - the contributors to this innovative book illuminate art's capacity to expand provenance research in critical and provocative ways.
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Paratextualizing games
This anthology examines paratexts that gaming cultures have produced as well as the way in which paratexts influence the development of games. How is knowledge about games generated and shaped today and how do boundaries between (popular) criticism, journalism, and scholarship have started to blur?
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Finding, inheriting or borrowing?
Since the dawn of humanity, people have developed concepts about themselves and the natural world in which they live. This volume aims at investigating the construction and transfer of such concepts between and within various ancient and medieval cultures. The single contributions try to answer q...
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Representations of global civility
By bringing together representations of the then already familiar Ottoman Empire and the largely unknown South Pacific in English travel writing during the long eighteenth century, Sascha Klement demonstrates how cross-cultural encounters were framed by Enlightenment philosophy, global interconne...
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Resilience stories
Today, “resilience” is among the most repeated buzzwords. Hamideh Mahdiani challenges a reductionistic understanding by questioning the dominance of life sciences in defining an age-old concept and by problematizing the neglected role of life writing in fostering resilience.
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Virtual photography
This book discusses the latest photographic technologies, and how we can now take photos in computer games, interpolate them in Virtual Reality platforms, or synthesize them via Artificial Intelligence.
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Theatre in transformation
This collection brings together analyses of cultural policy in post-apartheid South Africa and actors of the performing arts discussing political theater and cultural activism. Case studies grant inside views of the State Theatre in Pretoria, the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, and the Baxter The...
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Architectonics of game spaces
What consequences does the design of the virtual yield for architecture and to what extent can architecture be used to turn game-worlds into sustainable places in “reality”? This pioneering collection gives an overview of contemporary developments in designing video games and of the relationships...
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Hegel on sacred poetry
Víctor Ibarra B revisits Hegel's early works before 1800 and his dispute with Kant's concept of freedom, to offer a practical account of Hegel's view on sublime art within the context of his philosophy of love.
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Postmigration
The concept of “postmigration” has recently gained importance in the context of European societies’ obsession with migration and integration along with emerging new forms of exclusion and nationalisms. This book introduces ongoing debates on the developing concept of postmigration and how it can ...
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Democratic citizenship in flux
Traditional conceptions of democratic citizenship are being challenged by developments such as migration, populism, increasing polarization, social fragmentation, and digital communication technology. This book considers recent conceptions of citizenship by bringing together insights from differe...
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