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The Business of News
In the seventeenth century news was an investment in social relationships, a resource that concerned the interests of members of functional elites. Exchanging news entailed different forms of participation in functional elites and, thus, privilege. This business was part of the elites’ internal social structures; it constituted the fabric of all public institutions. This book questions notions of a print-based public sphere in the seventeenth century. It is based on contemporary tracts on newspapers, the court culture, and letter-writers, as well as news correspondences and other material from archives in the Baltic Sea Region and beyond. This book is a translation of: Das Geschäft mit Nachrichten: Ein barocker Markt für soziale Ressourcen (Bremen: edition lumière, 2018).
Life-stowing from a Digital Media Perspective: Past, Present and Future
While both public opinion and scholars around the world are currently pointing out the danger of increasingly popular life-logging devices, this book articulates this debate by distinguishing between automatic and manual life-logging approaches. Since new definitions of life-logging have excluded the latter approach and have been mainly focused on effortless life-logging technologies such as Google Glass and Quantified Self applications in general, this book theoretically frames life-stowing. Through extensive etymological research, this book defines life-stowing as a manual and effortful practice conducted by life-stowers, individuals who devote their life to sampling reality in predefined frameworks. Also as part of this book, an historical overview introduces life-stowers and distinguishes between Apollonian and Dionysian varieties of these practitioners. Lastly, in order to understand the future reception of lifestowing, particularly in relation to digital media, this book discloses the author’s ongoing life-stowing project to a small audience.
Handwritten Newspapers
This book is the first edited volume focusing on handwritten newspapers as an alternative medium from a wide interdisciplinary and international perspective. Our primary focus is on handwritten newspapers as a social practice. The case studies contextualize the source materials in relation to political, cultural, literary, and economic history. The analysis reveals both continuity and change across the different forms and functions of the textual materials. In the 16th century, handwritten newspapers evolved as a news medium reporting history in the making. It was both a rather expensive public commodity and a gift exchanged in social relationships. Both functions appealed to public elites a...
Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture
Offering a fresh approach to the study of the figure of the diplomat in the early modern period, this collection of diverse readings of archival texts, objects and contexts contributes a new analysis of the spaces, activities and practices of the Renaissance embassy.
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Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts
Covering the world's literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, physical oceanography, hydrology, glaciology, and related environmental sciences.
Alchemie, Exotismus und Fürstenhof
Der Arzt und Alchemiker Johann Otto von Helbig (1654–1698) verknüpfte in seinen theoretischen Schriften und seiner alchemischen Praxis europäisches mit ostindischem Wissen, das er während seines Aufenthaltes in Ostindien (Batavia) erworben hatte. Er verband beide Wissensbereiche in einer eigenen alchemischen Kosmologie. Mit der Substanz „Tessa" glaubte er den für Gesundung und Transmutation notwendigen Grundstoff geschaffen zu haben, der für kurze Zeit das Interesse der alchemisch interessierten Öffentlichkeit weckte und Helbig den Zugang zu den Fürstenhöfen eröffnete. Dort versuchte er seine naturphilosophischen Vorstellungen im Labor in die Realität umzusetzen. Eine annotierte Bibliographie, eine kommentierte Edition der bisher weitgehend unbekannten Briefe und Dokumente sowie alchemische Experimentaltexte geben Einblick in die alchemische Praxis Helbigs und die mit dem Scheitern verbundenen Schwierigkeiten. Die Edition leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Erforschung der frühneuzeitlichen Alchemie an Fürstenhöfen.
Mediated Europes
This study focuses on mediated representations of Europe during Euromaidan (2013-2014) and the subsequent Ukraine-Russia crisis, analysing empirical material from Ukraine, Poland and Russia. The material includes articles from nine newspapers, diverse in terms of political and journalistic orientation, as well as interviews with journalists, foreign policymakers and experts, drawing also on relevant policy documents as well as online and historical sources.
