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Nachdenken über 4.0
Nach den ersten drei industriellen Revolutionen befinden wir uns mitten in der vierten, der Digitalisierung aller Lebensbereiche. Die industriellen Revolutionen waren keine Revolutionen im Sinne eines Umsturzes, sondern technische Neuerungen in der Produktion. Erst in der Rückschau wurde klar, welche Auswirkungen sie auf die gesellschaftliche Entwicklung hatten. Geht es uns heute so wie unseren Vorfahren, dass wir nicht erkennen, was auf uns zukommt? Was passiert mit uns, sind wir noch handlungsfähig? Oder bestimmen über unser zukünftiges Leben einige wenige Giganten – und unser Staat schaut hilflos zu? Vor diesem Hintergrund hat der Werkkreis Literatur der Arbeitswelt e.V. einen Schre...
Disziplin
A photographic treatment of the concept of discipline The Vienna-based photo collective Fountain's Edit explores the concept of discipline across six photographic series and an accompanying glossary. This paperback volume underlines and emphasizes their different photographic styles by using a different kind of paper for each series.
The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson
John Dickinson’s entry into public life in Delaware and Pennsylvania is a highlight of the ninety-eight documents written over four years printed in Volume Two of The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson. The volume opens with Dickinson’s legal notes as he established himself as one of the most prominent and learned lawyers in colonial British North America. His cases dealt with, among other issues, interpretation of wills, disputes over land, sailors suing for wages, a fine on a Quaker who refused military service, and a notorious murder in a prominent Philadelphia family. It concludes with Dickinson offering thoughtful advice to a young man who was considerin...
Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson
During the years 1764 through 1766, John Dickinson became a leading figure in the Pennsylvania Assembly and in the growing American resistance to unjust British taxation. The documents in this volume show that, in both roles, he sought to protect the fundamental rights of ordinary Americans. In the 1764 Assembly, after working to punish those responsible for the slaughter of peaceful Indians, Dickinson challenged Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Galloway in their plan to abolish Pennsylvania’s unique Quaker constitution that secured liberty of conscience and place the colony under the control of the Crown. Then, in 1765, he served as primary draftsman at the Stamp Act Congress in New York, producing the first official American documents of the Revolutionary Era. In his private capacity, Dickinson continued to write through 1765 and 1766, publishing, among other documents, the first practical advice to Americans on how to resist Great Britain. The present volume also contains draft legislation, fascinating case notes from his legal practice, and personal correspondence.
Mucus in My Pineal Gland
Poetry. Art. IF REAL POWER BEGINS WHERE SECRECY BEGINS, THEN, AS WE FRANTICALLY SEARCH FOR DICK PICS OF JUSTIN BIEBER OR OUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR WHO WE'RE CONVINCED POSTED THE FACELESS CRAIGSLIST AD SEEKING AN ASIAN BOTTOM, WE'RE SEDUCED INTO A BEAUTIFUL DISTRACTION IN WHICH WE ARE CONVINCED, BY VIRTUE OF OUR VICTORIOUS TOPPLING OF THE LIVES OF OTHERS, THAT WE INDEED HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE.
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
After the signing of the definitive peace treaty on September 3, 1783, Franklin’s official duties as minister plenipotentiary diminished. Great Britain refused to negotiate a commercial agreement, and Congress failed to act on the draft treaties of commerce with Denmark and Portugal that Franklin had sent them the previous summer. In the six months after the peace was settled, Franklin’s sole diplomatic achievement was a draft consular convention with France. With his welcome leisure time, however, Franklin eagerly followed scientific developments (witnessing the first balloon ascensions in Paris), advised the French government on schemes for civic improvement, and wrote three of his most remarkable pieces about what it meant to be American.
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe
Katherine Mortenhoe lives in a near future very similar to the present day. Only in her time, dying from anything but old age is unheard of; death has been cured. So when Katherine is diagnosed with a terminal brain disease brought on by an inability to process an ever increasing volume of sensory input, she immediately becomes a celebrity to the “pain-starved public.” But Katherine rejects her tragic role: She will not agree to be the star of a Human Destiny TV show, her last days will not be documented or broadcast. What she doesn’t realize is that from the moment of diagnosis she’s been watched, not only by television producers but by a new kind of program host, a man with a camera behind his unsleeping eyes. Like Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, and the television series Black Mirror, The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe is a thrilling psychological drama that is as wise about human nature as it is about the nature of technology.
Aliens & Anorexia
It's 1996, and Chris Kraus is in Berlin, seeking a distributor for her film Gravity & Grace, described alternately as 'an experimental 16mm film about hope, despair, religious feeling and conviction' and 'an amateur intellectual's home video expanded to bulimic lengths' ... It's 1942 in Marseille, and Simone Weil is waiting for the US entry visa that will save her from the Holocaust, while writing work described alternately as a 'radical philosophy of sadness' and 'immoral, trite, irrelevant and paradoxical' ... It's the late 90s, the millennium is approaching, and Chris Kraus is in Los Angeles, not eating, waiting for her s/m partner to reply to her emails ... It's 1943, and Simone Weil is in London, completing her project of transcendence by dying of starvation ... Filled with Chris Kraus' trademark wit and frankness, unfolding to reveal the lives of ecstatic visionaries and failed artists, Aliens & Anorexia is an audacious novel about failure, empathy and sadness.
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