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Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary'
What grows out of the ordinary? This volume focuses on that which has been regarded as ordinary, self-evident and formulaic in literary and cultural phenomena such as diasporic cuisine, pet adoption narratives, Prairie writing, romance between stepsiblings, the program of a political party, and everyday shopping in poetry. The book argues that by engaging with that which is perceived as ordinary we also gain understanding of how otherness becomes defined and constituted. The volume seeks new ways to access that which might lie in-between or beyond the opposition between exploitation and emancipation, and contests the hegemonic logic of revealing oppression and rebuilding liberation in contemporary critical theory to create new ways of knowing which grow out of the ordinary.
Culinary Turn
Kitchen, cooking, nutrition, and eating have become omnipresent cultural topics. They stand at the center of design, gastronomy, nutrition science, and agriculture. Artists have appropriated cooking as an aesthetic practice - in turn, cooks are adapting the staging practices that go with an artistic self-image. This development is accompanied by crisis of eating behaviour and a philosophy of cooking as a speculative cultural technique. This volume investigates the dimensions of a new culinary turn, combining for the very first time contributions from the theory and practice of cooking.
Monospace and Multiverse
In contrast to buildings divided by walls, monospace buildings are determined far less by its shell than by a reciprocal relationship between space and practices, objects, materials, and human bodies. Using the example of such one-room-architectures, this book explores the potential of an actor-network-theory (ANT) approach to space in the field of architecture. Sabine Hansmann focuses on the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich, England by Foster Associates (1978) to investigate the mutual entanglement of people, objects and building. She traces the work that is necessary in »doing« space and thus suggests a re-conceptualisation of space in architectural theory.
Small Interventions
The publication investigates the opportunities for upgrading the spatial structure of apartments created during the post-war building boom between 1960 and 1970. The authors analyze typical existing layouts in the context of social developments which, in recent decades, have led to significant changes in the form of living and in the structure of households. To what extent do the functionally optimized housing units meet the requirements of today’s society, and how adaptable are they to new forms of living? Is it possible to achieve a workable result with small interventions? In the theoretical part the authors discuss theories on design strategies and political transformation processes, the importance of which is demonstrated in the project part using practical contemporary examples.
Positionen zu Architektur und Städtebau der documenta-Ausstellungen
Architektur und Städtebau wurden im Kontext der Weltkunstschau documenta in Kassel seit ihrer ersten Ausstellung im Jahre 1955 stets thematisiert. Die vorliegende Dissertationsschrift beleuchtet die documenta-Ausstellungen seit 1955 bis heute in diesem Zusammenhang. Exemplarisch wird eine Essenz aus 27 Positionen zu Architektur und Städtebau besprochen und im Kontext der jeweiligen kuratorischen Setzungen der documenta-Ausstellungen gespiegelt. Ergänzt werden die Untersuchungen durch die Betrachtungen zahlreicher Nebenschauplätze zum Themenkomplex sowie durch Gespräche mit unterschiedlichen Persönlichkeiten und Akteuren der documenta.
New Islamic Urbanism
Since the dawn of the oil era, cities in Saudi Arabia have witnessed rapid growth and profound societal changes. As a response to foreign architectural solutions and the increasing popularity of Western lifestyles, a distinct style of architecture and urban planning has emerged. Characterised by an emphasis on privacy, expressed through high enclosures, gates, blinds, and tinted windows, ‘New Islamic Urbanism’ constitutes for some an important element of piety. For others, it enables alternative ways of life, indulgence in banned social practices, and the formation of both publics and counterpublics. Tracing the emergence of ‘New Islamic Urbanism’, this book sheds light on the cha...
Subtle Agroecologies
This book is about the invisible or subtle nature of food and farming, and also about the nature of existence. Everything that we know (and do not know) about the physical world has a subtle counterpart which has been scarcely considered in modernist farming practice and research. If you think this book isn’t for you, if it appears more important to attend to the pressing physical challenges the world is facing before having the luxury of turning to such subtleties, then think again. For it could be precisely this worldview – the one prioritises the physical-material dimension of reality - that helped get us into this situation in the first place. Perhaps we need a different worldview to...
Feldforschung auf dem Sofa
Wie beeinflussen die verschiedenen Geräte, die zum Fernsehen genutzt werden, unseren Alltag und unser Gefühl von Zuhause? Ausgehend von teilnehmenden Beobachtungen in Berliner Wohnräumen analysiert Vera Klocke, wie Fernsehen »heute geht«. Ihre literarischen Portraits konzentrieren sich auf die konkreten Abläufe der jeweiligen Medienhaushalte und zeigen, dass in einer Situation des technologischen Medienumbruchs menschliche und nicht-menschliche Akteure an der fortwährenden Stabilisierung grundlegend instabiler Netzwerke arbeiten.
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