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Modelling the Energy Transition
Energy Transition is not only one of the most daring technological endeavours of the present, it is also its new master narrative. This open access volume reconfigures Energy Transition as a global discourse from a multidisciplinary perspective. Focusing on modelling both as a cultural technique and as a strategy of innovation and narration, the articles provided in this volume throw into relief the visions, but also the blind spots in modelling the challenges of climate change. Thus, in a rare encounter, major voices from the Sciences and the Humanities, from Energy System Design, Mechanical Engineering, Theory of Science, Science and Technology Studies, Literary Studies, and the Arts, have gathered here to tackle the societal dimensions of this global task. In doing so, they offer a new form of model criticism, pointing to the impacts of what may be termed the ‘Energy Imaginary’ on the techno-social mindset of our time.
Physics and Literature
Physics and Literature is a unique collaboration between physicists, literary scholars, and philosophers, the first collection of essays to examine together how science and literature, beneath their practical differences, share core dimensions – forms of questioning, thinking, discovering and communicating insights.This book advances an in-depth exploration of relations between physics and literature from both perspectives. It turns around the tendency to discuss relations between literature and science in one-sided and polarizing ways. The collection is the result of the inaugural conference of ELINAS, the Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science, an initiative dedicated to buil...
Pasts Beyond Memory
Contributing to current debates on relationships between culture and the social, and the the rapidly changing practices of modern museums as they seek to shed the legacies of both evolutionary conceptions and colonial science, this important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late nineteenth century.
Decentring the Avant-Garde
Decentring the Avant-Garde presents a collection of articles dealing with the topography of the avant-garde. The focus is on different responses to avant-garde aesthetics in regions traditionally depicted as cultural, geographical and linguistic peripheries. Avant-garde activities in the periphery have to date mostly been described in terms of a passive reception of new artistic trends and currents originating in cultural centres such as Paris or Berlin. Contesting this traditional view, Decentring the Avant-Garde highlights the importance of analysing the avant-garde in the periphery in terms of an active appropriation of avant-garde aesthetics within different cultural, ideological and historical settings. A broad collection of case studies discusses the activities of movements and artists in various regions in Europe and beyond. The result is a new topographical model of the international avant-garde and its cultural practices.
Metaphor and Political Discourse
Far from being rhetorical ornaments, metaphors play a central role in public discourse, as they shape the structure of political categorisation and argumentation. Drawing on a very large bilingual corpus, this book, now in paperback, analyses the distribution of 'metaphor scenarios' in more than a decade of public discourse on European integration, elucidating differences in UK and German attitudes and argumentation. The corpus analysis leads to a refinement of cognitive metaphor theory by systematically relating conceptual, semantic and argumentation levels and incorporating the historical dimension of metaphor evolution. Finally, drawing on examples of metaphor negotiation and on a reassessment of Hobbes' concept of metaphor in Leviathan, the book highlights the ethical dimension of metaphor in politics.
Gestural Imaginaries
Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy. Taking further Cornelius Castoriadis's concept of the social imaginary, it explores this imaginary's embodied forms. Close readings of dances, photographs, and literary texts are juxtaposed with discussions of gestural theory by thinkers including Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, and Aby Warburg. Choreographic gesture is defined as a force of intermittency that creates a new theoretical status of dance. Author Lucia Ruprecht shows how this also bear...
"Fülle der combination"
Unter den kulturellen Selbstbeschreibungsversuchen der Gegenwart hat ihre Definition als Wissenskultur zunehmend an Plausibilität gewonnen. Damit einhergehend erlangten zum einen Fragen der Wissenschaftsforschung neues Gewicht. Zum anderen hat sich die Wissenschaftsgeschichtsschreibung ihrerseits in Richtung einer Kulturgeschichte des Wissens und der Wissenschaften geöffnet. Zunehmend erweisen sich die science studies von Begriffen geprägt, die - wie 'Repräsentation', 'Text', 'Metapher' - dem Bereich der literary studies entstammen. Dadurch wächst der Literaturforschung mit ihren Methoden der Philologie, Rhetorik-Forschung, Metaphorologie und Diskursanalyse eine neue Rolle als Grundlagenforschung auf dem Gebiet der Wissenskultur(en) zu. Wenn also bereits Jacob Grimm bemerkte, es stünden 'die philologen und historiker an fülle der combination den gewandtesten naturforschern nicht eben nach', so gilt es heute nur um so mehr, dies unter Beweis zu stellen.
Charting Literary Urban Studies
Guided by the multifaceted relations between city and text, Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attempts to chart the burgeoning field of literary urban studies by outlining how texts in varying degrees function as both representations of the city and as blueprints for its future development. The study addresses questions such as these: How do literary texts represent urban complexities – and how can they capture the uniqueness of a given city? How do literary texts simulate layers of urban memory – and how can they reinforce or help dissolve path dependencies in urban development? What role can literary studies play in interdisciplinary urban research? A...
Aus dem Leben der Form
Ein interdisziplinärer Blick auf das Verhältnis von Zeit und Form sowie auf Funktionen, Potentiale und Grenzen der Morphologie. Die Rezeption von Goethes Morphologie wurde bisher auf ein holistisches Gestaltverständnis reduziert und als kompensatorische oder apotropäische Reaktion auf krisenhafte Modernisierungserfahrungen am Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts gedeutet. Das Bild einer weniger homogenen Wirkungsgeschichte ergibt sich jedoch, wenn Morphologie als Fundus für Fragen nach Formbildung und Formenwandel begriffen wird. Fragen, die Goethe im Vorfeld disziplinärer Ausdifferenzierung noch nicht beantworten konnte, und die nach 1900 disziplinär nicht mehr beantwortet werden können. Morphologie erweist sich so in der Theoriebildung des 20. Jahrhunderts als Irritationsfaktor im Wissensgefüge und als spannender Forschungsgegenstand im Heute: Die Untersuchungen der Autorinnen und Autoren haben ihren Fluchtpunkt in aktuellen Diskussionen zum Problem der Form, in denen grundsätzliche Unterscheidungen wie Natur vs. Kultur oder Vitalismus vs. Mechanismus auf dem Prüfstand stehen.
Performing Knowledge, 1750-1850
The period between 1750 and 1850 was a time when knowledge and its modes of transmission were reconsidered and reworked in fundamental ways. Social and political transformations, such as the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, went hand in hand with in new ways of viewing, sensing, and experiencing what was perceived to be a rapidly changing world. This volume brings together a range of essays that explore the performance of knowledge in the period from 1750 to 1850, in the broadest possible sense. The essays explore a wide variety of literary, theatrical, and scientific events staged during this period, including scientific demonstrations, philosophical lectures, theatrical per...
