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Image – Action – Space
Screen-based media, such as touch-screens, navigation systems and virtual reality applications merge images and operations. They turn viewing first and foremost into using and reflect the turn towards an active role of the image in guiding a user’s action and perception. From professional environments to everyday life multiple configurations of screens organise working routines, structure interaction, and situate users in space both within and beyond the boundaries of the screen. This volume examines the linking of screen, space, and operation in fields such as remote navigation, architecture, medicine, interface design, and film production asking how the interaction with and through screens structures their users’ action and perception.
Social Class and Transnational Human Capital
Due to globalization processes, foreign language skills, knowledge about other countries and intercultural competences have increasingly become important for societies and people’s social positions. Previous research on social inequality, however, has dominantly focused on the reproduction of class structures within the boundaries of a particular nation-state without considering the importance of these specific skills and competences. Within Social Class and Transnational Human Capital authors Gerhards, Hans and Carlson refer to these skills as ‘transnational human capital’ and ask to what extent access to this increasingly sought-after resource depends on social class. Based on Pierre...
Digital Design
A groundbreaking history of digital design from the nineteenth century to today Digital design has emerged as perhaps the most dynamic force in society, occupying a fluid, experimental space where product design intersects with art, film, business, engineering, theater, music, and artificial intelligence. Stephen Eskilson traces the history of digital design from its precursors in the nineteenth century to its technological and cultural ascendency today, providing a multifaceted account of a digital revolution that touches all aspects of our lives. We live in a time when silicon processors, miniaturization, and CAD-enhanced 3D design have transformed the tangible world of cars and coffee mak...
On the Road
Das wilde Leben und die impulsive, rebellische Literatur der Beat-Generation glichen nicht selten einer Höllenfahrt. Hans-Christian Kirsch porträtiert die Leitfiguren der literarischen Untergrundbewegung der 50er und 60er Jahre in den USA und setzt der Beat-Literatur mit liebevoller, aber keineswegs unkritischer und bisweilen ironischer Reverenz ein sehr persönliches Denkmal.
Beyond the Wall
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the definitive history of East Germany, "a fascinating, sparkling book, filled with insights" (Peter Frankopan) In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically different Germany than what had come before and what exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a Germany forged on the fault lines of ideology and geopolitics. In Beyond the Wall, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer sets aside the usual Cold War caricatures of the GDR to offer a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country, revealing the rich political, social, and cultural landscape that existed amid oppression and hardship. Drawing on a vast array of never-before-seen interviews and documents, this is the definitive history of the other Germany, beyond the Wall.
Negrophobia
A provocative, raucous dark comedy about race and racism in America, now back in print after twenty-five years and with a new preface by the author. Darius James’s scabrous, unapologetically raunchy, truly hilarious, and deeply scary Negrophobia is a wild-eyed reckoning with the mutating insanity of American racism. A screenplay for the mind, a performance on the page, a work of poetry, a mad mix of genres and styles, a novel in the tradition of William S. Burroughs and Ishmael Reed that is like no other novel, Negrophobia begins with the blonde bombshell Bubbles Brazil succumbing to a voodoo spell and entering the inner darkness of her own shiny being. Here crackheads parade in the guise of Muppets, Muslims beat conga drums, Negroes have numbers for names, and H. Rap Remus demands the total and instantaneous extermination of the white race through spontaneous combustion. By the end of it all, after going on a weird trip for the ages, Bubbles herself is strangely transformed.
Hitler's First War
The story of Hitler's formative experiences as a soldier on the Western Front - now told in full for the first time, presenting a radical revision of Hitler's own account of this time in Mein Kampf.
Der rote Elvis
Dean Reed ist der unbekannteste Superstar aller Zeiten und sein Tod gab immer wieder Anlass zu wilden Spekulationen. Der Sänger und Cowboydarsteller aus Colorado, der im Kalten Krieg zum sowjetischen Propagandamaskottchen avancierte und 1986 in Ost-Berlin ums Leben kam, war lange Zeit vergessen. Seit Tom Hanks aber einen Spielfilm über den berühmtesten Amerikaner östlich der Mauer angekündigt hat, ist das Interesse groß. Dean Reed spielte in 18 Filmen mit, produzierte 13 LPs und gab Konzerte in 32 Ländern. Obwohl er von den westlichen Medien ignoriert wurde, hielt ihn ein Drittel der Menschheit einst für den größten Popstar aller Zeiten. Er lebte in Chile, Mexiko, Argentinien, Span...
Die Peitsche
DIE PEITSCHE, einst als persönliche Marotte Hitlers in den Straßen Münchens mitgeführt, wird 1934 an die zentrale Macht im NS-Staat weitergereicht, die SS. Zuerst im KL Dachau eingesetzt, kommt ihr bald überall in den zahlreichen Lagern, die unter deutscher Verwaltung in den besetzten Ländern entstehen, eine zentrale Bedeutung zu. Beispielhaft für die "Karriere" der Peitsche wird die "T4" benannte Euthanasie, die "Aktion Reinhard" mit ihren Vernichtungslagern und schließlich die Rampe in Auschwitz-Birkenau in den Blick genommen.
장벽 너머
철의 장막이 무너지면서 동독은 더 이상 존재하지 않는 나라가 되었다. 제2차 세계대전의 폐허에서 새로운 밀레니엄의 시작에 이르는 40여 년 동안 독일민주공화국은 이전과 현재의 독일과는 근본적으로 다른 독일을 보여 주었다. 사회주의 연대, 비밀경찰, 중앙 계획, 철조망 등 이데올로기와 지정학의 단층선 위에 세워진 독일이었다. 동독에서 태어나 영국에서 활동하고 있는, 저명한 역사학자 카트야 호이어는 사라진 이 나라에 대한 만화경 같은 새로운 시각을 제시한다. 히틀러에게 추방당한 독일 마르크스주의자들의 쓰라...
