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Alive and Kicking at All Ages
The linking of age and ill-health is part of a cultural narrative of decline as age is often defined as the absence of good health. Research has shown that we are aged by culture, but we are also culturally made ill when we age. The cultural ambiguity of aging can thus deconstruct negative images of old age as physical decrepitude. This volume investigates the topic of health within the matrix of time and experience by addressing issues such as how our understanding of health influences our notion of agency within a subversive deconstruction of normative age concepts, and what role the notion of health plays in such an interaction.
The Ages of Life
The binary construction of »young« and »old«, which is based on a biogerontological model of aging as decline, can be redefined as the ambiguity of aging from a cultural studies perspective. This concept enables an analysis of the social functions of images of aging with the aim of providing a basis for interdisciplinary exchange on gerontological research. The articles in this publication conceive the relationship between living and aging as a productive antagonism which focuses on the interplay between continuity and change as a marker of life course identity: aging and growing older are processes which cannot be reduced to the chronology of years but which are shaped by the individual's interaction with the changing circumstances of life.
Danish Television Drama
This book explores how to understand the international appeal of Danish television drama and Nordic Noir in the 2010s. Focusing on production and distribution as well as the series and their reception, the chapters analyse how this small nation production culture was suddenly regarded as an example of best practice in the international television industries, and how the distribution and branding of particular series – such as Forbrydelsen/The Killing, Borgen and Bron/The Bridge – led to dedicated audiences around the world. Discussing issues such as cultural proximity, transnationalism and glocalisation, the chapters investigate the complex interplays between the national and international in the television industries and the global lessons learned from the way in which screen ideas, production frameworks and public service content from Denmark suddenly managed to travel widely. The book builds on extensive empirical material and case studies conducted as part of the transnational research project ‘What Makes Danish Television Drama Travel?’
Automation, Communication and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering 2011/2012
The book is the follow-up to its predecessor “Automation, Communication and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering 2009/2010” and includes a representative selection of all scientific publications published between 07/2011 and 06/2012 in various books, journals and conference proceedings by the researchers of the following institute cluster: IMA - Institute of Information Management in Mechanical Engineering ZLW - Center for Learning and Knowledge Management IfU - Associated Institute for Management Cybernetics Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Innovative fields of application, such as cognitive systems, autonomous truck convoys, telemedicine, ontology engineering, knowledge and information management, learning models and technologies, organizational development and management cybernetics are presented.
Meaningful Absence Across Arts and Media
This volume focusses on a rarely discussed method of meaning production, namely via the absence, rather than presence, of signifiers. It does so from an interdisciplinary, transmedial perspective, which covers systematic, media-comparative and historical aspects, and reveals various forms and functions of missing signifiers across arts and media. The meaningful silences, blanks, lacunae, pauses, etc., treated by the ten contributors are taken from language and literature, film, comics, opera and instrumental music, architecture, and the visual arts. Contributors are: Nassim Balestrini, Walter Bernhart, Olga Fischer, Saskia Jaszoltowski, Henry Keazor, Peter Revers, Klaus Rieser, Daniel Stein, Anselm Wagner, Werner Wolf
Kulturen des Alterns
Wie wollen wir im Aller leben? Welche kulturellen und sozialen Bedingungen sind dafür ausschlaggebend? Altersforscher unterschiedlicher Disziplinen, unter anderem der Kultur- und Medienwissenschaft, Ethnologie, Soziologie und Theologie, loten Möglichkeiten des Alterns in globaler Perspektive aus. Sie weisen auf Potenziale des Alters für Kultur und Gesellschaft hin und widersprechen verbreiteten Negativszenarien, die eine Vergreisung der Gesellschaft und einen Clash of Generations prophezeien. Die Beiträge zeigen anschaulich und zugleich theoretisch versiert, wie die Kunst des humanen Alterns in der Welt gelingen kann.
Aged Young Adults
When Toula's father in »My Big Fat Greek Wedding« says to his daughter (age 30) »you look so old« or when Don DeLillo's protagonist (age 28) »feels old« in »Cosmopolis«, these young characters are attributed an age awareness that has received little attention in age studies so far. Leaving aside chronological or biological dimensions of age, this study approaches age as a metaphoric practice, suggesting that »feeling old« is not to be taken literally but metaphorically. The book examines the cultural meanings of age and aging for characters who are in their twenties and thirties and challenges often-quoted labels such as late-coming-of-age story or perpetual adolescence.
Teaching English
Teaching English covers all of the major issues and current trends in language learning and teaching, such as the trends toward empiricism, constructivism, differentiation, learner- and output-orientation, intercultural learning, and the use of multimedia. This book bridges the gap between the suggestions of theoretical approaches to foreign language teaching and the practical needs of both the educators (regardless of the institutions they are teaching and the experiences they have gathered) as well as the students. It will help readers profit from the materials and reflected practices for use in their own classrooms. And lastly, the book offers optimal preparation for exams in university courses and in teacher-training seminars.
Darwin
"The exhibition is the first to focus on the implications of Darwinism for the fine arts. All of the artists featured in the exhibition shared an interest in the natural sciences and either read texts by Darwin or by those who reacted to him. With approximately 150 paintings, drawings, and lithographs as well as rare documentary material, the exhibition showcases artists such as Martin Johnson Heade, František Kupka, Odilon Redon, George Frederic Watts, Arnold Böcklin, Gabriel von Max, Alfred Kubin, and Max Ernst, and thus spans the period from 1859 to the mid twentieth century."--Schirn Kunsthalle website (viewed July 26, 2009).
Gender medienkompetent
Die Veralltäglichung von (neuen) Medien insbesondere bei Jugendlichen geht nicht automatisch mit Medienkompetenz einher. Die begriffliche Fassung von Medienkompetenz, ihren Bestimmungsfaktoren, ihrer sozialen und politischen Wünschbarkeit und ihrer Realisierungschancen sind Gegenstand interdisziplinärer Forschungen und praktischer Handlungsfelder. Der Band umfasst Forschungsperspektiven aus den Erziehungs-, Natur- und Sozialwissenschaften und reflektiert die Konsequenzen für Wissenschaft, Schule, Sozialarbeit und Politik. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Bestimmungen und Erklärungen unterschiedlicher ‚digitaler Spaltungen' (oder auch deren Verringerung) nach Geschlecht, Ethnie bzw. Migrationshintergrund, gesellschaftlichem Kontext, sozialem Status und - häufig in umgekehrter Relation - nach Alter. Die Beiträge zur Reflexivität, Theorieentwicklung und den sozialen Praxen von Gender und Medienkompetenz folgen der geschlechter- und bildungspolitischen Maxime der Geschlechtergerechtigkeit.
