transcript transcript verlag jun 2024 (134 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -From time immemorial, humans have been making deals, consuming goods, cultivating interests, thereby manifesting specific forms of life. Now, these forms of life solidify automatically by transforming into data. Webfare, a form of digital welfare, seeks to initiate a Copernican revolution that places need instead of merit at the center of society. In 21st-century welfare, consumption and production will be considered as the two faces of the same reality. The possibility to create new value is precisely what sets Webfare apart from traditional welfare: it recognizes the new value created by the Web, and aims to use it for everyone's well-being. 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In many countries, the political backlash against neoliberalism has mainly been a retreat from democracy, with a decline in independence of the judiciary and the monetary authorities, increased control of the media, and manipulation of elections for purposes of authoritarian control. The economic dynamics and the impact of neoliberalism, i.e. deregulation and liberalized markets, is just one cause of this authoritarian shift. The contributors to this volume examine 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. 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Species are going extinct, forests are burning, and children are worried about the future and their peers worldwide. But that is not the whole story: One Friday in 2018, a few young people joined Greta Thunberg to protest, and the global climate strike movement was born. Scientist David Fopp spent 250 Fridays with the newly formed grassroots movements. Together with activists Isabelle Axelsson and Loukina Tille, he offers an insider perspective on how scientists and activists can fight for a just and sustainable global society. The volume also offers both an introduction to ecophilosophy and a unified science of democracy in times of interdependent crises. How can research in all disciplines - from (drama) education and economics to psychology - help with this struggle And how can we all fight the climate crisis by transforming and deepening democracy 426 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Queer cultures are vibrant components of the constantly transforming societies of the 21st century. This is both socially and anthropologically recognizable, as well as individually readable. Categories such as wealth, success, amusement, but also sexuality and beauty have undergone major changes within queer subcultures and have influenced the reality of life for the general public. The entanglements in heteronormative systems and capitalist orders are increasingly putting a queer point of view under pressure, so that the question seems justified: What makes someone or something queer Martin Gössl reflects on the possibilities of queer recognition in different social contexts. 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Artists always react to the times in which they live. They may celebrate them or criticize them, often trying to change them. But this is the first time in history that technology controlled by private companies is offering to replace the work of writers, musicians, illustrators and visual artists. What impact will generative AI have on how we create art and how we understand what art is for How will it affect the role of the artist in the future and the conditions under which artists will work Jan Svenungsson tackles these questions, investigating what AI might do for art, and what it might change, circling the core issue of what it is in human art-making that cannot be replaced.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In phenomenological tradition, presence has been understood as fundamental for human experience: I experience the world as my lifeworld because I am present in this world. Even more, I experience myself as 'I' only in the physical presence of the other. However, this concept of presence has become fragile through processes of medialization - especially in (post-)pandemic everyday life. Presence can no longer be experienced exclusively in physical proximity, but also digitally or virtually. With global case studies alongside theoretical discussions by both students as well as junior and senior researchers, the volume launches a conversation between social sciences and humanities on how this change affects human experience.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -As algorithmic data processing increasingly pervades everyday life, it is also making its way into the worlds of art, literature and music. In doing so, it shifts notions of creativity and evokes non-anthropocentric perspectives on artistic practice. This volume brings together contributions from the fields of cultural studies, literary studies, musicology and sound studies as well as media studies, sociology of technology, and beyond, presenting a truly interdisciplinary, state-of-the-art picture of the transformation of creative practice brought about by various forms of AI. 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Notwithstanding its ruthless dynamics, the capitalist economy has the flaw of deficient employment-generating spending. This leads to unemployment of non-owners, individual suffering, social unrest and it undermines military strength. To deal with these issues, states use prosthetic policies, artificial transfers to the productive economy and to non-owners. But the funding of such prosthetic policies - through violent wealth appropriation abroad, protectionism, war, domestic expropriation and taxation, debt and money creation - is caught in dilemmas, while politicians are caught between non-solutions. According to Gerhard H. Wächter, the history of capitalist society is largely the history of this dilemmatic brotherhood. 532 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Global mobility is one of the crucial phenomena of our time. Combining the theoretical frameworks of masculinity studies and age studies, the contributors to this volume examine the intersection of cultural exchange, gender and age, exploring ageing masculinities with reference to the key concepts of relationality, kinship and care. The essays analyze transcultural experiences of ageing men from Europe, relationships including the Indian diaspora in the US, Chinese father images in the US-American context and Black British queer kinship, drawing its examples also from Brazilian society and African European contexts.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Geological phenomena have a strong visual presence in the landscape of the Chilean Andes. Volcanoes, thermal springs, earthquakes and geysers arise from an active geology. From the start of the 20th century, engineers and geologists have imagined transforming the heat of groundwater reservoirs into electricity. However, its use as electric power at a national scale remains an unfinished promise. Inspired by the anthropology of energy and infrastructures, Martín Fonck delves into the promises of geothermal energy and their abandonment in the Chilean Andes. 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In the EU, the prevailing academic and scientific thought models, as well as communication processes and journalism, are deeply Eurocentric. Martín Oller Alonso critiques these structural issues, focusing on post-communist Central and Eastern Europe's recent EU members. He argues for a decolonization of knowledge and a journalistic-other approach, blending local sensibilities and collective imaginations. Emphasizing deliberative communication, his study offers fresh media and communication theory perspectives, relevant to professionals and researchers in various fields, addressing the challenges and opportunities in the European Union amidst globalization and cultural integration. 176 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Culture is constructed, negotiated, managed, and shared by various ideological, political, and moral reasonings which manifest themselves tangibly and intangibly in public monuments, architecture, memorial sites, theaters, museums, orchestras, and heritage associations. The contributions to this volume explore the intersection of cultural heritage and nationality in societies that are characterized by national, multi-national, and post-national concepts. They question the roles that cultural heritage plays in its various contexts, and the ways in which ideology functions to produce it. 377 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Das globale Konfliktgeschehen hat sich im vergangenen Jahr weiter verschärft: Der Krieg zwischen Israel und der Hamas in Gaza, die anhaltende Aggression Russlands gegen die Ukraine sowie Militärputsche und dschihadistische Gewalt in Afrika forderten zehntausende Opfer. Militärische Interventionen in Konflikte zeigen dagegen kaum Erfolge, auch die Bekämpfung von Armut und Hunger stockt. Weltweit setzen zudem extremistische Bewegungen die Demokratien unter Druck. Das Friedensgutachten 2024 empfiehlt erste Schritte, um Gewaltspiralen zu durchbrechen und Konfliktursachen zu bearbeiten.Mit seinen konkreten Handlungsempfehlungen für Bundestag und Bundesregierung ist das Friedensgutachten ein zentrales Medium für den Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik. Die deutschen Friedensforschungsinstitute (BICC/IFSH/INEF/PRIF) geben das Gutachten seit 1987 heraus. 156 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The specific role of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the later nation of Austria within the formation of regional art histories in East Central Europe has received little attention in art historical research so far. Taking into account the era of the Dual Monarchy as well as the period after 1989, the contributions analyze and critically scrutinize the imperial legacies, transnational transfer processes and cultural hierarchies in art historiographies, artistic practices and institutional histories. Consisting of 17 texts, with new commissions and one reprint, case studies, monographic essays and interviews grouped thematically into two sections, the anthology proposes a pluriversal narrative on regional, cultural and political contexts. 418 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Could the Caspian Region replace Russia's or the Persian Gulf's immense energy potential with their energy resources Yunis Gurbanov explores the strategic importance of the region in post-USSR Eurasian policies of major global actors, namely China, the EU, the USA, and Russia, and examines Azerbaijan's, Kazakhstan's, and Turkmenistan's oil and gas resources as alternatives to conventional suppliers. He shows that the Caspian region's resources could serve as alternative energy sources on a global level, mitigating dependence on traditional suppliers and stabilizing energy prices. 298 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The clandestine festival QueerBeograd created spaces of critique and transformation in order to foster a politics of interconnectedness. Ivana Marjanovi¿ explores the festival's transnational activist cabaret between 2006 and 2008, which was devised, directed and produced by Jet Moon, a founding member of the QueerBeograd collective. This pioneering study demonstrates how the process of staging QueerBeograd Cabaret created a shared space between queer, anti-fascism and No Borders politics, contributing to the advancement of the intersectionality perspective beyond identity. The study thus investigates historical genealogies of gender and political difference in the former and post-Yugoslav space, bringing these into relation with global social and art movements.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In the early 20th century, Korean women began to manifest themselves in the public sphere. Sung Un Gang explores how the women's gaze was reimagined in public discourse as they attended plays and movies, delving into the complex negotiation process surrounding women's public presence. In this first extensive study of Korean female spectators in the colonial era, he analyzes newspapers, magazines, fictions, and images, arguing that public discourse aimed to mold them into a male-driven and top-down modernization project. Through a meticulous examination of historical sources, this study reconceptualizes colonial Korean female spectators as diverse, active agents with their own politics who played a crucial role in shaping colonial publicness.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - How are im/mobilities articulated, imagined and practiced in relation to multiple futures A critical examination of im/mobilities raises questions as to how power relations and crisis-driven futures enable, inhibit or prevent mobility, what meanings are culturally constructed around im/mobilities and how they are experienced. The contributors to this volume look at entangled future mobilities and immobilities using humanities and social science approaches in diverse examples: Afrofuturist poetry, de-extinction projects, dystopian novels, a Uruguayan planned relocation program, lives of rural Zambian women, climate adaptation in Morocco and Austrian financial literacy policy.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In the Romantic period, women writers developed specific aesthetics and writing strategies in their engagements with climate change and climate catastrophe. Anya Heise-von der Lippe draws on intersectional feminist and ecocritical approaches to highlight gender as a complicating category in Romantic engagements with these topics. She addresses the ways in which gendered critical framings continue to resonate in current Anthropocene discourses that use Romantic conceptualizations of »Nature«, impacting contemporary approaches to the relationship between humans and non-humans in the ongoing climate catastrophe.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - To date, the relationship between Otto Kirchheimer and Carl Schmitt has invariably been described as friendly, despite their political differences. Kirchheimer has even been attributed the role of the godfather of today's left-Schmittianism. With reference to previously unknown archival materials, conversations with personal contacts, and through a new reading of the theoretical works of both authors, including an analysis of the Nazi vocabulary used by Schmitt, Hubertus Buchstein exposes this view as a politically motivated legend. Buchstein claims that the best way to characterize their relationship from their first meeting in Bonn in 1926 up until Kirchheimer's death in 1965 is as enduring enmity - in a political, a theoretical, and even a personal sense.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Im Kontext der Klimakrise erscheint Sinn nicht mehr als isoliertes Phänomen menschlicher Kultur, sondern eingebettet in das Leben auf der Erde. Daraus ergeben sich neue Fragen an der Schnittstelle von Semiotik, Literatur- sowie Kulturwissenschaft: Welche Rolle spielen Zeichen für unseren Planeten Wie ist die kulturelle Sinnproduktion in das Erdsystem eingebunden Und wie lesen wir Klassiker der Literaturgeschichte im planetaren Kontext als Teil einer Geschichte des Anthropozäns Simon Probst entwirft kulturtheoretische Perspektiven auf Klimaforschung. Er erkundet Literatur im Lichte unseres Planeten und umgekehrt. So entsteht nicht zuletzt eine eindrückliche Darstellung davon, wie Literatur unseren Blick auf die Erde verändert. 164 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Public and political interest in social entrepreneurship (SE) is increasing while it remains a contested and ambiguous concept. Philipp Kenel traces the popular media representation of SE in Germany over time (1999-2021), making an important empirical contribution to the sociological and political understanding of the phenomenon. He shows that until 2008, SE was mainly understood as a reform of the welfare infrastructure (including public and non-profit institutions). From 2009, SE was increasingly conceptualised as part of the economy, while sometimes challenging and other times reaffirming mainstream economic logics. More recently, in somewhat competing perspectives, SE has been framed as part of the 'start-up' world or as a force for deeper social and ecological transformation. 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -»Mehr Fortschritt wagen« - unter diesem Motto ist die Bundesregierung von Olaf Scholz angetreten. Schon wegen des nicht vorhergesehenen russischen Krieges gegen die Ukraine gestaltet sich dieses Vorhaben schwieriger als gedacht. Die Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger nehmen die Stellschrauben und Stolpersteine der Transformationspolitik, die sich die Ampel-Koalition vorgenommen hat, in den Blick. Damit erstellen sie nicht nur eine Halbzeitbilanz dieser Regierung, sondern geben in der Zeitenwende einen praxisnahen Überblick über die unterschiedlichen politischen Herausforderungen und ökonomischen Notwendigkeiten der Bundesrepublik. 398 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg entschied sich Europa für den Liberalismus und wählte dafür eine spezifische Wirtschafts- und Sozialordnung: die Soziale Marktwirtschaft. Mathieu Dubois zeichnet den Einfluss der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und des Ordoliberalismus auf dieses Modell nach. Seine These: Im Gegensatz zum Bild eines »politischen Zwergs« erwies sich die westdeutsche Europapolitik als entscheidender Vermittler europäischer Kompromisse. Damit leistete die Bundesrepublik einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Liberalisierung des Kontinents und zur Gründung einer Wirtschafts- und Stabilitätsgemeinschaft - aber auch zu einer Währungsunion, die heute durch Zwang funktioniert. 264 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Wie sieht ethische Verantwortung im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung, Datafizierung und Künstlichen Intelligenz aus Die Beiträger\*innen geben fundierte Einsichten in die KI-gestützte Entscheidungs- und Urteilsfindung. Von der digitalen Operationalisierung über die Rolle des Menschen im Zentrum des technischen Fortschritts bis hin zur Konzeption von vertrauenswürdigen Systemen - im Fokus steht die Diskussion von Chancen und Herausforderungen, die nicht nur Akademiker\*innen vielseitige Anregungen zur weiteren Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema gibt. 264 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Das Metaversum ist eine Baustelle - und zwar eine, die es zu gestalten gilt. Mit dieser These begibt sich der Sammelband in verheißungsvolle virtuelle Realitäten. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf inklusiven und kreativen Umgangsformen mit eben diesen Welten. Hierzu vereinen die Beiträge des Bandes künstlerische Arbeiten mit wissenschaftlichen Ausführungen. Dabei wagen sie Blicke jenseits disziplinärer Grenzen und bringen vielfältige Perspektiven, Hintergründe und Wahrnehmungen zusammen. Es entsteht die vorsichtige Skizze einer Vision des diversen, emanzipierten und kritischen Umgangs mit und durch Virtualität. 244 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Wissenschaftsdidaktik ist nicht auf ein grundständiges wissenschaftliches Studium beschränkt. Vielmehr befasst sie sich auch mit der Vermittlung und Kommunikation von Wissenschaft in außerhochschulischen Feldern, wendet sich an unterschiedliche Zielgruppen und erfüllt verschiedene gesellschaftliche Funktionen. Damit berührt die Wissenschaftsdidaktik Fragestellungen, die auch in den Forschungsfeldern der Wissenschaftskommunikation oder des Wissenstransfers behandelt werden. Die Beitragenden des Bandes widmen sich der Vermittlung von und Kommunikation über Wissenschaft in unterschiedlichen Anwendungsfeldern und leuchten disziplinäre Nachbarschaften der Wissenschaftsdidaktik aus.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Kaum eine Straßendemonstration verzichtet auf ein symbolisches Kleidungsstück bzw. textiles Ensemble für die Gestaltung von politischen Allianzen. Politische Sichtbarkeit durch Kleidung ist mittlerweile unverzichtbar für eine effizient kommunizierte Protestkultur geworden: Gelbe Warnwesten oder auch rosa Sturmhauben gehen viral und mobilisieren translokale Bündnisse des Widerstands. Die Autorinnen untersuchen unterschiedliche Protestkonstellationen sowie künstlerische Positionen. Sie beleuchten erstmals die Verflechtung zwischen der visuellen und materiellen Dimension von Protestkleidung aus kunst-, kultur- sowie modetheoretischer Sicht und zeigen die Entstehung neuer bildlicher und symbolischer Bedeutungen und Handlungsmuster auf. 134 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Die Institutionalisierung von Wissenschaft und Künsten blickt auf eine lange Historie und eine Reihe an Synergien und Konflikten zurück. Diese beherrschen heute als »Akademisierung der Künste« und »künstlerische Forschung« die Diskussionen über das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Kunst sowie die relative Autonomie ihrer Institutionen. Die Beiträger\*innen fragen in dieser Festschrift für Karen van den Berg, welche Rolle die Universität als Ort der Wissenschaft und der Künste bei der Gestaltung unserer gesellschaftlichen Zukunft im 21. Jahrhundert spielt. Dabei zeigt sich: Im Zeitalter der digitalen Medien und Algorithmen wird die Kunst wissenschaftlich und die Wissenschaft künstlerisch. 236 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Neue Musik konfrontiert uns mit ungewohnten Klängen und zwingt uns so, unser Verhältnis zur Welt zu hinterfragen. Sie rüttelt auf und ist somit immer auch politisch, so die gängige These. Am Beispiel von Helmut Lachenmann, einem der prominentesten Komponisten der Gegenwart, macht Lena Drazic Texte über Neue Musik zur Grundlage einer Diskursanalyse, die deren politischen Versprechungen auf den Grund geht. Daran zeigt sie, dass insbesondere in der Strömung des »Kritischen Komponierens« Werte wie Demokratie, Niederschwelligkeit oder Herrschaftskritik beschworen werden, der Zugang zum Neue-Musik-Betrieb hingegen maßgeblich von Bildungs- und Klassenprivilegien abhängt. 313 pp. Deutsch.