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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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Genealogy of popular science
This volume considers the popularization of science as a recurrent cultural technique. Classicists, archaeologists, medievalists, art historians, sociologists, and historians of science provide a multilayered approach to the rhetorics, aesthetics, and social conditions that have shaped the dissem...
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Southeast asian transformations
This volume offers a timely approach to Southeast Asian studies, covering recent transitions in the realms of urbanism, rural development, politics, and media. An interdisciplinary project, it brings together authors from disciplines as diverse as area studies, sociology, history, geography, and ...
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The techno-apparatus of bodily production
Expanding on the concept of the apparatus of bodily production in the work of Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, Josef Barla explores how material bodies along with their boundaries, properties, and meanings performatively materialize at sites where technological, biological, technoscientific, (bio-)...
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Contested properties
This book deals with the values of medicinal plants and associated knowledge(s) in the field of bioprospecting in post-apartheid South Africa. The picture presented here contributes to the widely discussed yet so far unresolved question of how to appropriately share benefits, and how to protect i...
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Kompositionen für hörbaren raum / compositions for audible space
The integration of audible space is a central aspect of electroacoustic music. Ever since the earliest analogue days of electroacoustic music, pioneers of the genre – including Pierre Schaeffer, Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Luigi Nono – used special devices and methods for their com...
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Sexuality, family planning, and reproduction
The contributors to this book reflect on the history of sexuality, family planning, and reproduction in Central and Eastern Europe.
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The discovery of anxiousness
Joana Serrado inaugurates anxiousness as a category of mystical knowledge in this innovative historical and philosophical study.
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»postheimat« – inquiries into migration, theatre, and networked solidarity
The PostHeimat network, a three-year-long experiment in networked solidarity between major public German theatres and migrant actors and directors, discusses in this book how to think about Heimat after migration. The contributions document the emergence, frictions, and difficulties in migrant th...
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Bio-art
The book discusses the divide between human and non-human animals, between culture and nature.
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More than machines?
We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were alive? Laura Voss explores this phenomenon from science-fiction to robotics R&D, from science communication to media discourse, and from the theoretical perspectives of STS to the cognitive sciences.
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Schreiben im zwiegespräch / writing as dialogue
Obwohl Praktiken des Lektorats und des Mentorats zum alltäglichen Bestandteil schriftstellerischer Tätigkeiten gehören, wurden sie von den Literaturwissenschaften bislang kaum untersucht.Der bilinguale Band versammelt Akteure aus dem literarischen Feld sowie der Autorschafts- und Schreibprozessth...
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Imagining ageing
What do literary texts tell us about growing old? The essays in this volume introduce and explore representations of aging and old age in canonical works of English and postcolonial literature.
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Beyond the mirror
Susanne von Falkenhausen reveals the concepts of seeing as scholarly act that underwrite competing approaches to visuality and society. In close readings of key texts spanning from the early twentieth century to the present, she crosses between American, German, and British versions of art histor...
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The social evolution of world politics
This books shows that processes of social learning and unlearning are key to understanding the long-term historical evolution of complex societies.
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Laboring bodies and the quantified self
Focusing on the relations between quantification, the body, and labor, this volume sheds light on the ways in which discourses on data collection, office work, and production are instrumental in redefining concepts of labor, including notions of immaterial and free labor in an increasingly virtua...
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Legal pluralism in ethiopia
Being a home to more than eighty ethnic groups, Ethiopia has to balance normative diversity with efforts to implement state law across its territory. This volume explores the coexistence of state, customary, and religious legal forums from the perspective of legal practitioners and local justice ...
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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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Patrimonialization on the ruins of empire
This book shows that states adopted substantially different approaches towards their Ottoman architectural inheritance.
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Ibsen at the theatrical crossroads of europe
Gianina Druta investigates the performance history of Henrik Ibsen in the Romanian theatre between 1894 and 1947.
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Rule & resistance in the nuclear order
How can small players rebel against the militarily most powerful states in the world? Uncovering patterns of rule and subversive opposition in the nuclear order.
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Fugitive borders
Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that defy the genre conventions of the slave narrative. Instead, they express complex, often ambivalent attitudes toward the so-called Canadian Promised Land.
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Reading »black mirror«
The dystopian series Black Mirror is infamous for its apocalyptic portrayals of humankind’s relationship with an array of electronic and digital technologies. This timely collection offers innovative interdisciplinary perspectives on how confrontations with such issues should be considered and un...
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Rootedness and acculturation
Historians and sociolinguists with background in German or American studies offer a fresh look at a critical period in the history of German-American communities.
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Intimacy in illegality
Drawing on rich biographical accounts and ethnographic methods, this book offers an insightful and sensitive look at a mostly unknown aspect of life in illegality. Flaminia Bartolini shows how intimacy should be understood in its intrinsic power dimension and looks critically at the German migrat...
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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 inquiries into digital media theory, methodologies, and socio-technologica...
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Biopolitics and historic justice
Human rights violations linked to norms of health, fitness, and social usefulness have long been overlooked. This book introduces the concept of “injuries of normality” to capture the specifics of this type of human rights violation and the respective struggles for historic justice.
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Movements. journal for critical migration and border regime studies
The journal "movements" collects academic, activist and artistic output that deals with migration and border regimes. It fosters exchange between academic discourse and the movements of migration, and thus allows for political debate about our societies in motion.This issue discusses the current ...
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Live performance and video games
This collection brings together international researchers and artists to explore the relationship between live performance and video games in a variety of essays.
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The logic of design process
What is the logic of design process? Departing from this question, Tiago da Costa e Silva investigates the characteristic feature of every projective activity, for instance, in architecture, design, engineering design, and in the arts. In opposition to predominant views that understand design pro...
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Post-apartheid criticism
South Africa’s post-apartheid narrative is one of democracy and equality—but its flaws run deep, argues Ives S. Loukson. Disclosing prejudices about whiteness, homosexuality, and democracy, he lays the foundation for post-apartheid criticism that differs from postcolonial criticism.
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Ladies in arms
In contemporary popular culture, armed women take center stage - but how can they be read?
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Siegfried the wrestler
Through the study of one rare, surviving colportage novel, Peter S. Fisher offers an unusual mental and visual panorama of a nearly vanished Wilhelmine world.
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Performing the digital
How is performativity shaped by digital technologies – and how do performative practices reflect and alter techno-social formations? "Performing the Digital" explores, maps and theorizes the conditions and effects of performativity in digital cultures. Bringing together scholars from performance ...
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Utopian architecture beyond the concrete
Christian Preidel argues that building today is not a symphony in glass and concrete but a social endeavour where people (and material) come together.
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Migration – networks – skills
Migration, networks, skills: these keywords not only denote three popular and important fields of current investigation in Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, they also mark the wide range of interests of cultural and social anthropologist Waltraud Kokot, who is to be honoured in this Festschri...
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Anonymity performance in electronic pop music
This study sketches two musico-artistic projects of anonymity performance as forms of immanent and particulate critical practice in the sense of Judith Butler and Michel Foucault. Adopting performance in a reflexive and performative writing style, this performance ethnography calls for a radical ...
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Authority and trust in us culture and society
This volume takes an interdisciplinary and historical look at the transformations of authority and trust in the U.S. The contributors examine government institutions, political parties, urban neighborhoods, scientific experts, international leadership, religious communities, and literary production.
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Beyond neoliberalism and neo-illiberalism
This book examines the impact of neoliberal economic policies in relation to cultural and political factors and how these have promoted the recent authoritarian turn, as well as probing the economic policies and performance of the illiberal regimes.
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Mapping the unmappable?
How can we map differing perceptions of the living environment? Mapping the Unmappable? explores the potential of cartography to communicate the relations of Africa’s indigenous peoples with other human and nonhuman actors. The contributors create a deepened understanding of indigenous ontologies...
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Trouble on the far right
In Europe, the far right is gaining momentum on the streets and in parliaments. By taking a close look at contemporary practices and strategies of far-right actors, the present volume explores this right-ward shift of European publics and politics. It assembles analyses of changing mobilization p...
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Pandemic protagonists
The contributors to this volume take a closer look at different pandemic protagonists in fictional narratives relating to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as in existing pandemic fictions.
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Immersive technology meets cultural heritage
Looking at cultural institutions, and with the aim of further exploiting the possibilities of XR media, this book presents a discussion of opportunities and challenges for institutions, audiences and game developers.
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Kashmiri nationalism, 1989-2016
A reflection on Kashmir's nationalistic aspirations, exploring the mobilisation, strategies and complexities that define its struggle.
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Beyond the civil war hospital
Beyond the Civil War Hospital understands Reconstruction as a period of emotional turmoil that precipitated a struggle for form in cultural production. By treating selected texts from that era as multifaceted contributions to Reconstruction's »mental adaptation process« (Leslie Butler), Kirsten ...
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Handbook of qualitative and visual methods in spatial research
This book presents a broad spectrum of established methods and innovative method development to capture and understand different facets of spaces.
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Women's leadership in music
The contributors ask what can be considered as leadership in culture from a female point of view today.
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Fear of aging
The contributors of this book investigate what exactly we are afraid of when we posit old age as a source of horror.
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Climate protection, resource efficiency, and sustainable engineering
This book introduces explores the potential of light weight engineering in the areas of climate protection, resource efficiency, and sustainable mobility.
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Ecopoetic place-making
The poets discussed in this book challenge exclusionary notions of place-attachment, testifying to the potential of poetry as a means of conceptualizing alternative environmental imaginaries.
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