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Who You Think I Am?
Pop stars are close to us. In their songs, their pictures, their stories on Instagram. What we are looking for is an authentic impression. Real feelings on real faces. But what happens when they cover their face with a mask? Permanently, as a second face. The phenomenon can be found in the mainstream as well as in the underground. The mask does not break with the ideal of authenticity. Rather, depending on how it is staged, it refers to the most diverse discourses, can appear cool or grotesque, become a logo or create anonymity. The essay uses mainly two examples (Sido, Slipknot) to show how the mask constructs the persona of pop stars - and thus reveals structures of pop music.
Teaching Research in Design
Since the 1990s, the concern to define areas of research in design has dominated academic debates. As a result, we are now facing a multitude of understandings. This is especially true for practice-based design research. Sandra Dittenberger, Hans Stefan Moritsch and Agnes Raschauer discuss how the concept of learning by research can be integrated into product design studio teaching. They show different international approaches for integrating research into teaching and contrast the areas of design research with scientific standards. The book features study results that helped generate both a general orientation for research in design education and guidelines for students of how to integrate research into their project work.
The Routledge History of Antisemitism
Antisemitism is a topic on which there is a wide gap between scholarly and popular understanding, and as concern over antisemitism has grown, so too have the debates over how to understand and combat it. This handbook explores its history and manifestations, ranging from its origins to the internet. Since the Holocaust, many in North America and Europe have viewed antisemitism as a historical issue with little current importance. However, recent events show that antisemitism is not just a matter of historical interest or of concern only to Jews. Antisemitism has become a major issue confronting and challenging our world. This volume starts with explorations of antisemitism in its many different shapes across time and then proceeds to a geographical perspective, covering a broad scope of experiences across different countries and regions. The final section discusses the manifestations of antisemitism in its varied cultural and social forms. With an international range of contributions across 40 chapters, this is an essential volume for all readers of Jewish and non-Jewish history alike.
Baumgarten's Aesthetics
The German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) introduced “aesthetics” as a new science in his Reflections on Poetry (1735) and developed this new part of philosophy in a series of later works, culminating in his unfinished Aesthetics (1750/1758). This volume is the first collection of essays in the English language devoted to Baumgarten’s aesthetics. The essays highlight the distinguishing features of Baumgarten’s aesthetics, situate it in its historical context, document its reception, and examine its contributions to contemporary philosophy.
Corporate Political Responsibility
This book demonstrates how companies can effectively promote their business by assuming political responsibility and expanding their investment concept to include a political component. It shows that the success of companies is crucially dependent on socio-political conditions. In other words: politically sustainable management is a business case. Therefore companies should take a closer look at the opportunities at the interface of politics and business. To date, there has not been a satisfactory assessment of the issue of Corporate Political Responsibility (CPR), which combines a conceptual framework with practical measures for implementation. This book remedies that oversight, and shows h...
Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance
Michael Stolberg offers the first comprehensive presentation of medical training and day-to-day medical practice during the Renaissance. Drawing on previously unknown manuscript sources, he describes the prevailing notions of illness in the era, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, the doctor–patient relationship, and home and lay medicine.
Erwin Olaf: Strange Beauty
For his photographs and films, the Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf creates a world that has been staged down to its smallest detail. It seems very similar to ours, but its artificiality give it an enigmatic sense. Still, with their visuals borrowed from the film and advertising industries, the works are only flawlessly striking on the surface; in fact, they deal with questions of democracy, equality, or self-determination. Marking Olaf's first comprehensive solo exhibition in Germany, the companion publication deals with essential aspects of Olaf's art and offers an attractive survey of his multifaceted oeuvre from the past forty years. Olaf's most recent works, some of which were created especially for the exhibition at the Kunsthalle Munich, will also be shown.
Hassbilder
Hass-Postings kennt jeder – und viele denken dabei nur an Hasskommentare. Daniel Hornuff aber zeigt: Wer die Bilder übersieht, die zusammen mit den Texten in Umlauf gebracht werden, unterschätzt die Gefahr, die vom Hass in den Sozialen Medien ausgeht. Kann man von einer Ästhetik des Hasses in den Sozialen Medien sprechen? Wie entstehen Radikalisierungen, wie verhärten sich Ressentiments? Hornuff macht deutlich, dass Hass nicht nur sprachlich entfaltet wird: Es sind Bilder, die ihn ästhetisch auffächern und anschlussfähig werden lassen. So deutet Daniel Hornuff den Hass in den Sozialen Medien nicht als psychische Regung, sondern als kommunikativen Akt. Und er weist darauf hin: Niemand muss diesem Phänomen machtlos gegenüberstehen!
Mindbombs
On political violence and visual culture This catalog considers the history and political iconography of modern terrorism, focusing on the influence of terrorism on visual culture. Some of the terrorist organizations considered include the Red Army Faction (RAF), ISIS and the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Divided into three sections, this revelatory publication provides the first comparative examination of social revolutionary, far-right and jihadist terrorism. Twenty years after September 11, and ten years after the discovery of the NSU in the fall of 2011, Mindbombs explores the question of how acts of political violence affect cultural memory through the media. Artists include: Hi...
Wohin geht unsere offene Gesellschaft?
Dieses Buch handelt von der 68er-Kulturrevolution, ihren geistigen Vorbildern, ihren Ideen und Akteuren, ihren Fehlern und ihrem emanzipatorischen Erbe sowie von ihren Feinden - und damit vom krisenhaften Zustand, in dem sich heute die offene Gesellschaft befindet. Im Zentrum des Buches steht die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit einer illiberalen Weltanschauung, deren Vertreter politische Gegner diffamieren, die an den Ideen von 1776, 1789, 1848 und 1968 festhalten. Letzteren geht es um die Verteidigung der liberalen Demokratie, der Rechte von Flüchtlingen und anderen Minderheiten wie auch um die ökologische Modernisierung der Gesellschaft. An die Stelle des alten Rechts-links-Dualismus ist heute ein neuer Dualismus getreten: der zwischen einem liberalen, sozial-ökologischen, weltoffenen und einem völkisch-nationalen Lager - ein Dualismus, der auch die Parteienlandschaft neu formiert. Der Autor, Bruno Heidlberger, tritt für eine offene, den Menschenrechten und dem Klimaschutz verpflichtete Gesellschaft ein.
