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Ever since climate change has been identified as one of the most significant challenges of humanity, climate change deniers have repeatedly tried to discredit the work of scientists. To show how...

Brexit is a tale of two unions, not one: the British and the European unions. Their origins are different, but both struggle to maintain unity in diversity and both have to face the challenge of...

Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly important topic in the cultural sector. While museums have long focused on building digital object databases, the existing data can now become a...

andererseits provides a forum for research, commentary, and creative work on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. Works presented in the publication come from...

Popular media play an important role in reconstructing collective imaginations of history. Dramatic events and ruptures of the 20th century provide the material for playful as well as neo-imperialist...

Berlin is increasingly emerging as a hub of Arab intellectual life in Europe. In this first study of Arab culture to zoom in on the thriving metropolis, the contributors shed light on the dynamics of...

Under the premise that architecture makes life >bettersolutiongreenWith a preface by Sabine Knierbein.Author: Carolina CrijnsPublisher: Transcript PublishingPublication Date: Dec 12, 2023Number of...

What is the cultural dimension of sustainability? This book offers a thought-provoking answer, with a theoretical synthesis on cultures of sustainability. Describing how modernity degenerated into a...

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...

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...

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...

This book asks what epistemological challenges arise when we think about the use of AI beyond its dependency on big data.Author: Andreas Sudmann, Anna Echterhölter, Markus Ramsauer, Fabian Retkowski,...

In the face of climate change, the destruction of biodiversity or genetic experimentation, Bio Art appears as a form that is most directly grappling with the problems of the Anthropocene . It...

Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enormous changes have occurred in how institutional care is structured, the...

The big societal challenges, such as climate change and public health, call for innovative approaches to address them. The contributors of this book present new ways to tackle these challenges by...

Sarah Kessler shows that conventional assumptions of an implicit consensus on the need to prioritise climate action should be reconsidered.Author: Sarah KesslerPublisher: Transcript...

In 20 essays inspired by Hannah Arendt's analysis of crisis-ridden modernity, Wolfgang R. Heuer addresses aspects of depoliticization and the loss of politics, and thus of freedom. The wide-ranging...

Despite the increasing influence of data technologies on our world, many people still lack a profound understanding of what this >dataficationAuthor: Ina SanderPublisher: Transcript...

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to considering how cultures of citizenship are being envisioned and interrogated in literary and cultural (con)texts.Author: Vanessa Evans, Mita...

Scotland's quest for statehood is a paradigmatic case of democratic nationalism. Philipp R?ckheim highlights the crucial role of inclusion in this sentiment, distinguishing the political collective...

Modern mundane life is brimming with a variety of data-driven technologies that are supposed to augment the practices they are involved in. As humans bring these technologies into their lives in a...

Digital collaboration has been established in higher education for many years. But when the Covid-19 pandemic struck, digital learning and virtual mobility became of utmost importance for higher...

Introduces contemporary research on the digitization and datafication of products, exploring topics like user experience, artificial intelligence, and virtual environments in design.Author: Laura S...

Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge is an academic journal in, on, and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the constitution of architectural knowledge. It explores methods...

In the context of an environmental crisis, photography and its related practices can be part of an emancipatory project, challenging techno-utopian solutions and envisioning alternative possibilities...

Leaking water infrastructures, heritage tourism, investments in artworks, failing electronics: Durability lies at the heart of a wide range of seemingly unrelated phenomena. In today's economies,...

Innovation is ubiquitous and has become a universal term that is indispensable to describe interventions, projects, or products. Franziska S?rgel argues that emotions influence innovations as they...

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...

Focusing biopolitics, this book brings together a number of historical and cultural perspectives on the processes of othering in the long transnational human history of epidemics and pandemics...

In addition to products and services, multinational corporations sell myths, values, and immaterial goods. These "meta-goods," which include prestige, beauty, and strength, are major components of...