English Books

Die Verheißungen der Blockchain / Promises of the Blockchain

Claudia Emmert / Stephanie Milling / Ina Neddermeyer / Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen (Hrsg.)

Vor 15 Jahren wurde am 31. Oktober 2008 das Bitcoin-Whitepaper von Satoshi Nakamoto veröffentlicht. Bis heute ist nicht geklärt, wer sich hinter dem Pseudonym verbirgt. Es gilt jedoch als das Gründungsdokument virtueller Währungen, das die Funktionsweise des Bitcoins und der Blockchain erläutert. Seitdem haben Kryptowährungen und...

248 Seiten, Softcover – 29,00 €

Into the deep

Minen der Zukunft / Mines of the future

Claudia Emmert / Jürgen Bleibler / Ina Neddermeyer / Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen (Hrsg.)

Der Abbau von Rohstoffen entwickelt sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten immer stärker zu einem ökologischen, ökonomischen, politischen und sozialen Problem mit globalen Auswirkungen. Extensive Abbaupraktiken und die Ausbeutung von Öko- und Sozialsystemen stellen eine der größten Umweltbelastungen unserer Zeit dar. Ihre Folgen sind vielerorts...

184 Seiten, deutsch & englisch
Softcover – 20,00 €

From Ionia to Jena

Franz Rosenzweig and the History of Philosophy

Promesse – Kritische Studien zu Philosophie, Ästhetik, Geschichte und Religion, Bd. 2

Anne Eusterschulte / Antonios Kalatzis (Hrsg.)

Franz Rosenzweig’s approach toward the history of philosophy was, if anything, profoundly ambivalent. No other thinker has so often declared the end of the classical metaphysics – from Parmenides to Hegel, from Ionia to Jena – and simultaneously drawn so much from the history of philosophy for his own philosophical project. Kant’s critical...

300 Seiten, Softcover – 26,00 €

A House of Call – my imaginary notebook

Material Counter

Heiner Goebbels

In recent years, composer and theatermaker Heiner Goebbels has regularly collected recordings of voices during his travels, chance encounters, projects, and research. Unique, peculiar voices that have touched, disturbed, excited, alienated him. These are voices from very different contexts, soundscapes, musical traditions, and languages, folk...

140 Seiten, Softcover – 9,00 €

Multispecies Futures

New Approaches to Teaching Human-Animal Studies

Andreas Hübner / Micha Gerrit Philipp Edlich / Maria Moss (eds / Hrsg.)

In light of the dramatic growth and rapid institutionalization of human-animal studies in recent years, it is somewhat surprising that only a small number of publications have proposed practical and theoretical approaches to teaching in this inter- and transdisciplinary field. Featuring eleven original pedagogical interventions from the social...

236 Seiten, en / de – Open Access

Ethical Militancy The Workings of Aesthetics

Natascha Siouzouli

In recent years, much research has been dedicated to the relationship between politics and aesthetics and, in particular, to the political power of aesthetics. This book makes a claim for what comes before any political decision is made and action taken; for what precedes the need for the subject to take a specific stance and adopt a particular...

150 Seiten, Softcover – 18,00 €

Un/Masking Reflections on a Transformative Process

Anna Baccanti / Franziska Link / Johanna Spangenberg / Antonia Stichnoth (eds)

This volume looks at masking and unmasking as indivisible aspects of the same process. It gathers articles from a wide range of disciplines and addresses un/masking both as a historical and a contemporary phenomenon. By highlighting the performative dimensions of un/masking, it challenges dichotomies like depth and surface, authenticity and...

262 Seiten, Softcover – 29,00 €

Change Through Repetition Mimesis as a Transformative Principle Between Art and Politics

Babylonia Constantinides / Simon Gröger / Elisa Leroy / Doris Rebhan (eds)

Art and politics are related through repetition. Both realms are structured by practices of repetition and share a common room of sens(e)uality – aesthetics in the emphatic sense of the word. It is the aesthetics and practices of repetition that reveal the relation between both realms. This volume proposes to explore aesthetic and cultural...

262 Seiten, Softcover – 26,00 €

Game of Drones

Von unbemannten Flugobjekten / Of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Claudia Emmert / Jürgen Bleibler / Ina Neddermeyer / Dominik Busch / Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen (Hrsg.)

Drohnen sind unbemannte Flugobjekte, deren Größen so unterschiedlich sind wie ihr Aussehen und ihre Nutzung. Eingesetzt werden sie für unterschiedlichste zivile Zwecke: u.a. um schwer zugängliche Gebiete zu erreichen, zur Kontrolle von Grenzen, Überwachung, Datensammlung sowie in der Landwirtschaft und im Dienstleistungssektor. Sie liefern...

200 Seiten, deutsch & englisch
Hardcover – 24,00 €

Celebration!

25 Jahre Jüdisches Filmfestival Berlin & Brandenburg / 25 Years Jewish Film Festival Berlin & Brandenburg

Jüdisches Kulturinstitut in Deutschland e.V. / Nicola Galliner (Hrsg.)

1995 startet das Jüdische Filmfestival Berlin & Brandenburg (JFBB) mit acht Filmen und schließt eine Lücke in der kulturellen Landschaft der Region Berlin und Brandenburg. 25 Jahre später ist es mit mehr als 40 Filmen eine der renommiertesten jüdischen Kulturveranstaltungen in Deutschland. Mit Filmen über jüdisches Leben hierzulande, in Israel...

352 Seiten, deutsch & englisch
Hardcover – 24,00 €

We Are All Astronauts The Image of the Space Traveler in Arts and Media

Henry Keazor (ed.)

“We are all astronauts”, the American architect and thinker Richard Buckminster Fuller wrote in 1968 in his book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth , where he compared Earth to a spaceship, provided only with exhaustible resources while flying through space. These words show the presence the phenomenon of the astronaut and the cosmonaut had in...

250 Seiten, Softcover – 26,00 €

Being-With in Contemporary Performing Arts

Eliane Beaufils/Eva Holling (eds)

The concept of being-with developed by the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy asks a fundamental question about human life, inasmuch as we have always been and will be co-existent with people and environments. All modes of sense-making and subjectivation, but also presence, can only occur within a context and through interaction. This is why historical...

272 Seiten, Softcover – 28,00 €

Catastrophe & Spectacle Variations of a Conceptual Relation from the 17th to the 21st Century

Jörg Dünne/Gesine Hindemith/Judith Kasper (eds)

From epidemics in the 17th century and the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 to Guernica in World War II, the essays in this volume trace the development of the catastrophic imagination, relying heavily on pictorial media and different forms of staging. Catastrophe in its modern sense seems to be inextricably linked to its spectacular representation, be...

208 Seiten, Softcover – 25,00 €

Stereotypes and Violence Global Humanities. Studies in Histories, Cultures, and Societies, 04

Frank Jacob (ed.)

Stereotypes are dangerous, especially when they are used by demagogues. Slogans, which remind the historian of darker times in human history, however, reappear again in a growing number. As companions of the rise of right wing forces in Europe they make up ground in more and more regions and gain momentum in the political debate. It consequently...

168 Seiten, Softcover – 16,00 €

American Beasts Perspectives on Animals, Animality and U.S. Culture, 1776–1920

Dominik Ohrem (ed.)

In American history, animals are everywhere. They are a ubiquitous presence in myriad historical, literary, biographical, scientific and other documents and narratives of the American past – a past that, just like the present, was shaped by a multiplicity of relations between humans and other creatures ranging from coexistence and conviviality...

304 Seiten, Softcover – 26,00 €

Mosaic Space and Mosaic Auteurs On the Cinema of Alejandro González Iñárritu, Atom Egoyan, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Michael Haneke

Yun-hua Chen

Mosaic Space and Mosaic Auteurs constructs a model of mosaic, which extends our focus beyond narrative strategy, to approach the trend of diverse multi-strand films across genres, nations and filmmaking contexts since the late 1980s. Different from investigation of this recurring global phenomenon from perspectives of spectator engagement,...

258 Seiten, Softcover – 25,00 €

Migration and State Power Global Humanities. Studies in Histories, Cultures, and Societies, 03

Frank Jacob (ed.)

The current situation in Europe seems to emphasize that our modern society is still not ready to accept migration as an important part of human history. Instead of welcoming immigrants and refugees with open arms, state power is trying to restrict asylum for those who are in need. The reasons, why people leave their home countries are different:...

148 Seiten, Softcover – 16,00 €

African Thoughts on Colonial and Neo-Colonial Worlds Facets of an Intellectual History of Africa

Arno Sonderegger (ed.)

This book shows the many facets of African engagements with the world. It starts from the premise that current global asymmetries ascribing Africa to a marginalized position are the effects of colonial and imperial pasts still lingering on. The decolonization process of the post-war structure which privileges the West in both political and...

220 Seiten, Softcover – 22,00 €

Religion and Poverty Global Humanities. Studies in Histories, Cultures, and Societies, 02

Frank Jacob (ed.)

Nowadays religions are especially important for those who are living in countries of the formerly so-called ‘Third World’. The miseries of life seem to be so hard that just an afterlife in a transcendent paradise is promising relief. Consequently, there seems to be a close connection between religion and poverty, especially in the 21st century,...

154 Seiten, Softcover – 16,00 €

Jewish and Non-Jewish Spaces in the Urban Context Jüdische Kulturgeschichte in der Moderne, Bd. 4

Alina Gromova / Felix Heinert / Sebastian Voigt (eds)

The unifying thread of the interdisciplinary volume Jewish and Non-Jewish Spaces in the Urban Context is the fact that Jewish spaces are almost always generated in relation to non-Jewish spaces; they determine and influence each other. This general phenomenon will be scrutinized and put to the test again and again in a varied collection of...

302 Seiten, Softcover – 26,00 €

On the Correlation of Center and Periphery Global Humanities. Studies in Histories, Cultures, and Societies, 01

Frank Jacob (ed.)

The analysis of the relationship between center and periphery is one of many theoretical approaches found in all fields of the Humanities. Looking at this special relationship from several disciplinary perspectives is an effective methodology for establishing connections between various fields of study. Consequently, the issue contains articles...

226 Seiten, Softcover – 16,00 €

The War in Our Backyard

The Bosnia and Kosovo Wars through the Lens of the German Print Media

Margit V. Wunsch Gaarmann

The War in Our Backyard is a novel study of the German press’ textual and visual coverage of the wars in Bosnia (1992–1995) and Kosovo (1998–1999). Key moments from both wars have been selected and analysed using a broad range of publications reaching from far-right to far-left and including broadsheets, a tabloid and a news magazine. Two...

294 Seiten, Softcover – 20,00 €

Beyond the Line Cultural Narratives of the Southern Oceans

Michael Mann / Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger (eds)

The title of Beyond the Line refers to the imaginary “Line” drawn between North and South, a division established by the Peace Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis in 1559. This is an early modern time and Eurocentric construction, according to which the southern oceanic world has long been taken as symbol of expansionist philosophies and practices. An...

272 Seiten, Hardcover – 42,00 €