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The Draw of the Alps
The Alps have exerted a hold over the German cultural imagination throughout the modern period, enthralling writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and tourists alike. The Draw of the Alps interrogates the dynamics of this fascination. Though philosophical and aesthetic responses to Alpine space have shifted over time, the Alps continue to captivate at an individual and collective level. This has resulted in myriad cultural engagements with Alpine space, as this interdisciplinary volume attests. Literature, photography, and philosophy continue to engage with the Alps as a place in which humans pursue their cognitive and aesthetic limits. At the same time, individuals engage physically wi...
Rules
A panoramic history of rules in the Western world Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don’t, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, historian Lorraine Daston traces their development in the Western tradition and shows how rules have evolved from ancient to modern times. Drawing on a rich trove of examples, including legal treatises, cookbooks, military manuals, traffic regulations, and game handbooks, Daston demonstrates that wh...
Cultural Techniques
This volume presents the preliminary results of the work carried out by the interdisciplinary cultural techniques research lab at the University of Erfurt. Taking up an impulse from media studies, its contributions examine —from a variety of disciplinary perspectives—the interplay between the formative processes of knowledge and action outlined within the conceptual framework of cultural techniques. Case studies in the fields of history, literary (and media) studies, and the history of science reconstruct seemingly fundamental demarcations such as nature and culture, the human and the nonhuman, and materiality and the symbolical order as the result of concrete practices and operations. These studies reveal that particularly basic operations of spatialization form the very conditions that determine emergence within any cultural order. Ranging from manual and philological "paper work" to practices of opening up and closing off spaces and collective techniques of assembly, these case studies replace the grand narratives of cultural history focusing on micrological examinations of specific constellations between human and nonhuman actors.
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Nexus Network Journal 11,2
The title of this issue of the Nexus Network Journal, "Architecture, Mathematics and Structure," is deliberately ambiguous. At first glance, it might seem to indicate the relationship between what buildings look like and how they stand up. This is indeed one aspect of what we are concerned with here. But on a deeper level, the fundamental concept of structure is what connects architecture to mathematics. Both architecture and mathematics are highly structured formal systems expressed through a symbolic language. For architecture, the generating structure might be geometrical, musical, modular, or fractal. Once we understand the nature of the structure underlying the design, we are able to "read" the meaning inherent in the architectural forms. The papers in this issue all explore themes of structure in different ways.
The Strait Gate
Exploring a chapter in the cultural history of the West not yet probed, The Strait Gate demonstrates how doors, gates, and related technologies such as the key and the lock have shaped the way we perceive and navigate the domestic and urban spaces that surround us in our everyday lives. Jütte reveals how doors have served as sites of power, exclusion, and inclusion, as well as metaphors for salvation in the course of Western history. More than any other parts of the house, doors are objects onto which we project our ideas of, and anxieties about, security, privacy, and shelter. Drawing on a wide range of archival, literary, and visual sources, as well as on research literature across various disciplines and languages, this book pays particular attention to the history of the practices that have developed over the centuries in order to handle and control doors in everyday life.
Life and work of Michael Knüppel
The book is a bio-bibliography of the Turkologist, Tungusologist, Altaist, historian of science and ethnologist Michael Knüppel (*1967) for the years 1996-2022.
Das Auge des Mathematikers
Die Idea della fortificatione, ein Manuskript aus der Hand des Mediziners und Mathematikers Teofilo Gallacini, ist eines der zahlreichen und dennoch weitgehend unbekannten Fortifikationstraktate des 17. Jahrhunderts. Gallaccini zählt als Professor für Mathematik und Logik an der Universität in Siena zu jenen Gelehrten, die im Kontext ihrer Forschungen die Fortifikation als eines der populärsten Anwendungsgebiete für praktische Geometrie (Euklid) wie für Systematisierungsprozesse und Ordnungsstrukturen nach der Logik des Aristoteles verstanden. Die akademisch-philosophische Fortifikationstheorie verdeutlicht den Prozess der Verwissenschaftlichung des Festungsbaus im ausgehenden 16. und ...
Re-Imagining DEFA
By the time the Berlin Wall collapsed, the cinema of the German Democratic Republic—to the extent it was considered at all—was widely regarded as a footnote to European film history, with little of enduring value. Since then, interest in East German cinema has exploded, inspiring innumerable festivals, books, and exhibits on the GDR’s rich and varied filmic output. In Re-Imagining DEFA, leading international experts take stock of this vibrant landscape and plot an ambitious course for future research, one that considers other cinematic traditions, brings genre and popular works into the fold, and encompasses DEFA’s complex post-unification “afterlife.”
Festungsbau
Eine bastionäre Festung bzw. Festungsstadt stellte eine zentrale Herausforderung für die zeitgenössischen theoretischen und angewandten Wissenschaften dar. Ihre planerische Bewältigung erforderte einen bislang unbekannten organisatorischen, vermessungstechnischen und gestalterischen Aufwand. Die Elemente des Festungsgürtels mussten auf solche Weise angeordnet werden, dass wechselseitige Deckungen und lückenlose Verteidigung möglich wurden. Die Verknüpfung der fortifikatorischen Praxis mit mathematischem und philosophischem Wissen erlaubte es jedoch, die gesamte sichtbare Welt nach geometrischen und optischen Gesetzen neu einzurichten, letztlich die militärische in eine kulturelle Te...
